Alibaba, ByteDance plan to place orders for Huawei's new AI chip: report

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• The new chips will allow developers at Chinese tech companies to migrate their models more easily from Nvidia's software system

  60% confidence

• Huawei struggled to persuade big tech giants in the private sector to adopt its Ascend 910C chip in large quantities

  60% confidence

• Customer testing of Huawei's new AI chip has gone well, and Alibaba and ByteDance plan to place orders

  60% confidence

• Tech companies plan to use the new 950PR chip more extensively as it is more compatible with Nvidia's CUDA software system and has better response speeds

  60% confidence

• Compared to the 910C, the 950PR chip only offers a small improvement in raw computing power but is designed to excel in handling inference workloads

  60% confidence

• Huawei intends to ship about 750,000 950PRs this year

  60% confidence

• Nvidia has received purchase orders from customers in China

  60% confidence

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