Tests conducted by Chinese AI development company DeepSeek have reportedly shown that Huawei's AI chip 'Ascend 910C' delivers 60% of the performance of NVIDIA's 'H100' chip in inference tasks.

That policy came under scrutiny this week when Chinese startup DeepSeek achieved widespread adoption of its latest AI model that was developed without access to Nvidia's export-blocked H100 chips.

President Joe Biden’s administration in September ordered Nvidia to stop exporting its two most advanced chips--the A100 and the recently developed H100 - to mainland China and Hong Kong ...

While Huawei and SMIC have managed to catch up with TSMC's capabilities in the 2019–2020 era and produce a chip that can be considered competitive with Nvidia's A100 and H100 processors ...