Huawei just retasked a factory to prioritize AI over its bestselling phone

Reuters reviews that Huawei will deal with rising the manufacturing of its AI chip, the Ascend 910B, on the expense of manufacturing of its Mate 60 telephones in no less than one facility. 

Huawei makes each its Ascend AI chip and the Kirin chip, which powers the Mate 60, in a single facility. Nevertheless, manufacturing within the plant has been low, folks acquainted with the matter instructed Reuters, so the corporate now plans to prioritize the AI chip. Demand for Ascend chips, which assist in coaching AI fashions, has been rising domestically. By delaying the manufacturing of chips for Mate 60, Huawei can deal with enhancing the variety of usable and sellable chips from the ability. The Mate 60 helped Huawei beat Apple’s telephone gross sales within the nation in 2023, writes the South China Morning Submit, which makes slowing its manufacturing an fascinating wager on AI’s significance to the corporate.

Chinese language AI corporations have a tough time sourcing extremely sought-after AI chips like Nvidia’s H100 after the USA imposed restrictions on chip exports. This has pushed Chinese language AI builders to make use of home alternate options like Huawei’s Ascend 910B chip. 

Chinese language corporations have been making an attempt to plant their flag within the generative AI hype cycle however are at a slight developmental drawback to the US. Corporations like Baidu have launched giant language fashions and chatbots to the general public, however they’ve but to seek out the dimensions of OpenAI’s ChatGPT or Google’s Bard. China was the primary nation to return out with AI insurance policies and requires corporations engaged on AI merchandise to undergo an approval course of earlier than releasing them to the general public.