Huawei unveiled new AI infrastructure at its Connect conference on Thursday, aiming to better compete with rival chipmaker Nvidia, according to TechCrunch. The Shenzhen-based company introduced SuperPoD Interconnect, a technology capable of linking up to 15,000 graphics cards, including Huawei’s Ascend AI chips, to expand compute power. The system rivals Nvidia’s NVLink, which connects AI chips for high-speed communication. While Huawei’s chips are less powerful than Nvidia’s, clustering them together increases computing capacity for training and scaling AI models. The launch comes a day after China banned domestic firms from purchasing Nvidia’s hardware.
