huawei paint broad ai canvas
Huawei Paints Broad AI Canvas
Huawei presented at Hot Chips an AI accelerator it aims to scale from inference on wearables to training jobs in data centers. It also described systems based on them spanning SoCs for smartphones, cars, and cellular base stations as well as servers and a 512-petaflop cluster. The presentation showed state-of-the-art work in silicon, software and systems. In many respects Huawei appeared ahead of rivals such as Intel or even risk-taking startups such as Cerebras which is narrowly focused on data center training. The first generation of chips based on DaVinci cores were designed in just 11 months.