Huawei makes AI chip breakthrough (without US parts) - TechHQ

Huawei developed World's fastest AI training cluster. For Huawei, who previously listed 33 US companies as core suppliers for chips and processors, a ban on purchasing US goods was expected to take a hit on R&D at a crucial time. Several analysts predict the counter effect of this move is Huawei's redoubled effort to be technologically self-reliant, and a recent'AI breakthrough' might provide further backing for those comments. Huawei claimed to have developed the world's fastest artificial intelligence (AI) training cluster--Atlas 900. Atlas 900, dubbed the "fastest AI training model", combines "the power of 1, 024 Ascend 910 AI chips and has a computing capability as strong as the aggregation of 500, 000 personal computers," as reported in CCTV. At Huawei Connect 2019, the electronics maker said; "it takes Atlas 900 only 59.8 seconds to train ResNet-50, the gold standard for measuring AI training performance.