Moore Threads unveils new AI chips to challenge Nvidia

Chinese chip designer Moore Threads Technology has unveiled a suite of new products, including its next generation of chip architecture and artificial intelligence chips as it looks to challenge US chip-making heavyweights Nvidia and AMD.

The Beijing-based firm, hailed as China’s “little Nvidia”, introduced two forthcoming chips Huashan and Lushan, named after two famous Chinese mountains, at a developer conference in the Chinese capital on Saturday.

The Huashan chip, designed for AI training and inference, delivers better performance than Nvidia’s Hopper series and comes close to the US tech firm’s newer Blackwell line, according to James Zhang Jianzhong, founder, chairman and CEO of Moore Threads.

The launch marks Moore Threads’ latest bid to challenge foreign rivals like Nvidia, and comes close on the heels of the company’s blockbuster initial public offering on the Shanghai Stock Exchange on December 5.

The company’s shares have gained more than 480 per cent since their debut, closing at 664.1 yuan on Friday.

Zhang claimed that Huashan’s performance exceeded that of Nvidia’s Hopper series, which includes the H100 and H200 chips, in computing power, memory bandwidth and capacity, but did not provide specifications for the chips.