According to a report by Wccftech, Huawei is developing a new AI processor designed to compete with NVIDIA’s H100 GPU. Codenamed Ascend 910D, the chip features a design with 4 chip dies and is expected to deliver a significant performance boost over the current high-end Ascend 910C.
Investigative reports show that Huawei holds an inventory of approximately 2 million chip dies, which could be used for producing high-performance chips. It is rumored that these dies were procured before the U.S. government’s export ban came into effect. A chip die is a single semiconductor chip that is combined via packaging technology into multi-chip modules for manufacturing advanced AI GPUs.
The current Ascend 910C AI processor is packaged with 2 Ascend AI dies, while the next-generation Ascend 910D plans to integrate 4 dies to achieve higher performance. Domestic sources reveal that the Ascend 910D may surpass the NVIDIA H100 in performance. The NVIDIA H100 was launched in 2022, and its predecessor, the A100, was used by OpenAI to train ChatGPT.
Additionally, the follow-up model of the Ascend 910 series, the Ascend 920, has also been leaked. It is said that the Ascend 920 will adopt a dual-die design and may be compatible with NVIDIA products. This chip is likely based on a GPU architecture to further expand the performance of typical GPUs. The Ascend 920 is expected to enter small-scale production in 2027.
