(Image credit: Huawei) Huawei's impressive next-generation Ascend 900-series AI accelerators will be offered only in China, not internationally, as the company struggles to meet domestic demand amid capacity constraints, the company announced this week. While the upcoming Ascend 960-series neural processing units (NPUs) could rival some of AMD's and Nvidia's existing AI GPUs, demand for these units outside of China was not guaranteed anyway.Go deeper with TH Premium: AI shortagesStay On the Cutting Edge: Get the Tom's Hardware NewsletterGet Tom's Hardware's best news and in-depth reviews, straight to your inbox. Anton Shilov is a contributing writer at Tom’s Hardware. Over the past couple of decades, he has covered everything from CPUs and GPUs to supercomputers and from modern process technologies and latest fab tools to high-tech industry trends.
Huawei shelves global AI chip rollout as China's own demand outstrips supply — 15,488-chip Atlas clusters leverage optical networking to counter Nvidia, scales to 120 EFLOPS
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