{"id":832,"date":"2025-04-21T20:43:37","date_gmt":"2025-04-21T20:43:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.techrepublic.com\/?p=4302766"},"modified":"2025-04-21T20:43:37","modified_gmt":"2025-04-21T20:43:37","slug":"us-china-chips-saga-huawei-readies-ascend-920-chip-to-replace-restricted-nvidia-h20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.tecnoartesanos.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/21\/us-china-chips-saga-huawei-readies-ascend-920-chip-to-replace-restricted-nvidia-h20\/","title":{"rendered":"US-China Chips Saga: Huawei Readies Ascend 920 Chip to Replace Restricted NVIDIA H20"},"content":{"rendered":"
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U.S. restrictions and tariffs on Chinese imports may hurt American companies, particularly those that sell semiconductors to China, according to a report by The New York Times. As companies like NVIDIA brace for potential losses, possibly as high as $5.5 billion from its H20 chip, Chinese tech giant Huawei is seizing the opportunity by preparing a competing product.<\/p>\n

<\/span>Huawei readies Ascend 920 chip<\/span><\/h2>\n

Reuters reported on April 21 that Huawei has a new chip ready for Chinese companies that may be forced to seek an alternative to NVIDIA. The Ascend 920, first reported on by DigiTimes Asia<\/a>, could replace NVIDIA\u2019s H20 when it becomes available for purchase in the second half of 2025.<\/p>\n

According to Tom\u2019s Hardware, the Huawei Ascend 920 has 900 TFLOPs per card and a 4 TB\/s memory bandwidth, making it significantly more powerful than the NVIDIA H20. The H20 is a lower-power version of NVIDIA\u2019s H100, built for the Chinese market in accordance with U.S. restrictions. AMD also faces strict restrictions on sales to China.<\/p>\n

Huawei competes across a wide swath of the tech world, including with Apple on smartphones and Ericsson and Nokia in telecommunications, according to The New York Times<\/a>. Huawei could form a business relationship with DeepSeek, helping boost its China-based advanced AI efforts.<\/p>\n

SEE: Microsoft added AI agents to Copilot Studio<\/a>, its tool for customizing the AI Copilot.<\/strong><\/p>\n