Huawei’s Ascend 910C and 384-NPU CloudMatrix Fill China’s AI Void

As Huawei ramps up its AI chip efforts with the Ascend 910C NPU and CloudMatrix 384 system, it seeks to fill a void created by the banning of Nvidia GPUs. Having evolved over the past 5+ years, the Ascend 910 is competitive only in AI inference despite its original aim to tackle training.