The two Gulf nations recently struck deals for well over a million Nvidia and Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) processors over several years. Thailand’s AI efforts similarly rely on advanced semiconductors from Nvidia.
Huawei is offering 910B volumes in the low thousands, according to the people, though the exact number for any particular pitch remains unclear.
The Shenzhen-based company is also trying to woo customers with remote access to its CloudMatrix 384 system, the people said. That is a China-based high-performance computing system built with more advanced Ascend 910C chips – which Huawei is not currently prepared to export owing to limited supplies, according to a person familiar with the company’s thinking. Huawei is focused on selling 910Cs to Chinese firms that cannot access best-in-class US AI chips, the person said.
Huawei’s efforts, however, have not produced any finalised deals, the people said – though they indicated that the Chinese company, which Nvidia has called a formidable competitor, wants to give foreign AI markets a taste of its technology as it works to boost manufacturing output.
