Nvidia founder and CEO Jensen Huang said his company’s technology remained a generation ahead of those developed by China, but warned that Huawei Technologies was in a position to expand its semiconductor business should US chip export curbs stay in place.
Ren, however, added that using methods like “stacking and clustering [on Ascend-powered machines], the computing results are comparable” to the most advanced systems in the world.
“AI is a parallel problem, so if each one of the computers are not capable … just add more computers,” Huang said in response to a question about Ren’s comments. “What he’s saying is that in China, [where] they have plenty of energy, they’ll just use more chips.”
“He was saying that China’s technology is good enough for China. If the United States doesn’t want to participate in China, Huawei has got China covered,” Huang added. “Huawei [also] has got everybody else covered.”
The 62-year-old Nvidia CEO’s televised comments, made on the sidelines of the annual VivaTech conference in Paris, reflect his concerns about Huawei’s growing AI chip capabilities, which he earlier raised during a closed-door meeting last month with the US House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee.
