American restrictions and prices on Chinese imports can harm American companies, especially those that sell semiconductors to China, according to a New York Times report. While companies like NVIDIA accumulate for potential losses, perhaps up to $ 5.5 billion in his chip H20, the Chinese giant of Huawei technology takes the opportunity by preparing a competitor product.
Huawei is preparing to Ascend 920 Chip
Reuters reported on April 21 that Huawei had a new ready chip for Chinese companies that could be forced to seek an alternative to Nvidia. Ascend 920, reported for the first time by Digitimes Asiacould replace the NVIDIA H20 when available for purchase in the second half of 2025.
According to Tom equipment, the Huawei Ascend 920 A 900 TFOPS by card and a 4 TB / S memory bandwidth, which makes it much more powerful than the Nvidia H20. The H20 is a low -power version of NVIDIA H100, built for the Chinese market in accordance with American restrictions. AMD also faces strict restrictions on sales to China.
Huawei participates in a large world of technology strip, including with Apple on smartphones and Ericsson and Nokia in telecommunications, According to the New York Times. Huawei could form a commercial relationship with Deepseek, helping to stimulate his advanced AI efforts based on China.
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The sanctions of the china china span biden and Trump eras in the middle of growing technological tensions
On April 15, the Restricted Trump NVIDIA AdministrationMICRO Devices Advanced and Intel to sell fleas to China. A few days later, the actions of the three companies fell. The CEO of Nvidia, Jensen Huang, met Chinese leaders and discussed the importance of the region for the company.
An anonymous source of the New York Times said that China could use Nvidia fleas to build data centers as part of the Belt and Road initiative, a soft power initiative to plant Chinese back infrastructure worldwide. The sanctions against Nvidia began in 2022 under the administration of former President Joe Biden to prevent the sale of high -performance fleas in China.
Now, with a pressure assembly on both sides of the Pacific, the race to control the future of AI and the manufacture of Tamiaux concerns both geopolitics as on silicon.
