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Huawei Unveils New AI Infrastructure to Compete with Nvidia

Huawei Unveils New AI Infrastructure to Compete with Nvidia
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September 18, 2025

In a strategic move to enhance its artificial intelligence capabilities, Huawei announced a groundbreaking AI infrastructure during its Huawei Connect conference in Shenzhen. The spotlight was on Huawei’s new SuperPoD Interconnect technology, designed to link up to 15,000 graphics cards—including Huawei’s own Ascend AI chips—delivering significantly increased computational power.

This development positions Huawei as a competitor to Nvidia’s NVLink, a high-speed communication infrastructure for AI chips. The ability to cluster numerous AI chips together allows Huawei to scale its AI processing capabilities, which is crucial for training large models and scaling AI systems.

While Huawei’s AI chips currently lag behind Nvidia’s in raw power, this clustering technology helps bridge the gap by offering a more scalable and powerful infrastructure. This is particularly important in the context of recent restrictions imposed by China, which banned domestic tech companies from purchasing Nvidia’s hardware, including the RTX Pro 600D servers tailored for the Chinese market.

Huawei’s announcement underscores its strategic emphasis on developing indigenous AI HW infrastructure to bolster competitiveness amid ongoing geopolitical and market pressures. TechCrunch has sought additional details from Huawei to elaborate on this innovative platform.

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