{"id":17617,"date":"2026-03-20T21:32:56","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T21:32:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/huawei-challenges-nvidia-with-powerful-new-ai-accelerator-card\/"},"modified":"2026-03-20T21:32:56","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T21:32:56","slug":"huawei-challenges-nvidia-with-powerful-new-ai-accelerator-card","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/huawei-challenges-nvidia-with-powerful-new-ai-accelerator-card\/","title":{"rendered":"Huawei challenges Nvidia with powerful new AI accelerator card"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.i-scmp.com\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/og_image_scmp_generic\/public\/d8\/images\/canvas\/2026\/03\/20\/e538d1e5-200f-4a1a-9998-5976ccb9178d_aacea212.jpg?itok=vxOwjoWS&amp;v=1774003883\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Chinese tech giant Huawei Technologies has launched the Atlas 350 accelerator card for inference, boasting higher computing power for artificial intelligence applications and better performance than US rival Nvidia&rsquo;s H20, as AI rapidly advances into the agentic era.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The Atlas 350 AI accelerator card would be powered by Huawei&rsquo;s latest Ascend 950PR chip, designed to deliver enhanced computing power and storage for AI inferencing, said Ma Haixu, a vice-president at Huawei, at the firm&rsquo;s China Partner Conference on Friday.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The card delivered 1.56 petaflops of FP4 computing power, a 2.8-times improvement over Nvidia&rsquo;s China-tailored H20 chip, according to Zhang Dixuan, head of Huawei&rsquo;s Ascend computing business. FP4 refers to low precision in computing, which allows the Atlas 350 accelerator to move data faster.<\/p>\n<div data-qa=\"InlineAdSlot-Container\" class=\"css-zl1inp e11v3ui14\">\n<div class=\"e11v3ui10 e11v3ui13 css-1umbx1w e1flwkbl0\" data-qa=\"AdSlot-Container\">\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The accelerator card aimed to match or even exceed its industry peers in AI inference for search recommendation, multimodal generation and large language models, Zhang said.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">An accelerator card is a hardware unit dedicated to a specialised task and designed to be integrated into a server.<\/p>\n<div data-qa=\"InlineAdSlot-Container\" class=\"css-zl1inp e11v3ui14\">\n<div class=\"e11v3ui10 e11v3ui13 css-1xd1hm8 e1flwkbl0\" data-qa=\"AdSlot-Container\">\n<div class=\"internal-linking-related-contents\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/12-weeks-jail-for-school-it-support-technician-who-took-upskirt-videos-of-teachers\/\" class=\"template-1\"><span class=\"cta\">News :<\/span><span class=\"postTitle\">&lt;div&gt;12 weeks' jail for school IT support technician who took upskirt videos of teachers&lt;\/div&gt;<\/span><\/a><\/div><p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The launch came as the US-sanctioned company ramped up efforts in AI computing infrastructure powered by its self-developed semiconductors, after achieving chip breakthroughs in recent years, including its Ascend AI chips, without relying on American technology.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><sub>Huawei challenges Nvidia with powerful new AI accelerator card<\/sub><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chinese tech giant Huawei Technologies has launched the Atlas 350 accelerator card for inference, boasting higher computing power for artificial intelligence applications and better performance than US rival Nvidia&rsquo;s H20, as AI rapidly advances into the agentic era. The Atlas 350 AI accelerator card would be powered by Huawei&rsquo;s latest Ascend 950PR chip, designed to&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/huawei-challenges-nvidia-with-powerful-new-ai-accelerator-card\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Huawei challenges Nvidia with powerful new AI accelerator card&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17618,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17617","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17617"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17617\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17618"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}