Chinese telecom giant Huawei is introducing its latest supernode computing clusters to the international markets at this year’s MWC Barcelona, reports the South China Morning Post. The new products aim to offer an alternative to US-led AI systems from rivals such as Nvidia.
The Shenzhen-based firm plans to debut the Atlas 950 SuperPoD, a system powered by 8,192 neural processing unit cards, as well as TaiShan 950 SuperPoD, its general-purpose compute cluster, among its other computing products to the attendees at MWC Barcelona, formerly known as Mobile World Congress, which is running throughout the week.
Announced in the China market last September, Atlas 950 SuperPoD and TaiShan 950 SuperPoD have been hailed by the company as “the world’s most powerful” AI compute systems using local chipmaking processes. They are part of Huawei’s efforts to break the supply chokehold restricting China’s access to the most advanced chips, says the SCMP.