China's Huawei develops new AI chip to compete with US's Nvidia

China's Huawei Technologies is preparing to test its newest and most powerful Artificial Intelligence (AI) processor.

With this, it hopes to replace some of the high-end products of American chip giant Nvidia, the Wall Street Journal reported, according to Telegraph.

Huawei has reached out to several Chinese technology companies to test the technical feasibility of the new chip, called the Ascend 910D, the US newspaper reported on Sunday, citing people familiar with the matter.

The Chinese company hopes that the latest version of its Ascend AI processors will be more powerful than California-based Nvidia's H100, and is expected to receive the first batch of processor samples as early as late May, the report added.

Previous versions are called 910B and 910C.

The people interviewed indicate that the chip is in early development and will undergo a series of tests to evaluate its performance and prepare it for use by customers.

Reuters news agency reported that Huawei plans to begin mass shipments of its advanced 910C artificial intelligence chip to Chinese customers as early as next month.

Huawei and its Chinese competitors have struggled for years to build high-end chips that can compete with Nvidia's products for training models, a process where data is fed to algorithms to help them learn to make accurate decisions. /Telegraph/