State-Backed Lab Picks Huawei Chip to Power Mega AI Computer in China

What’s new: A government-backed computer lab has announced that it will use a new version of Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd.’s Ascend artificial intelligence (AI) chip to build what “will probably be the world’s largest” AI computing platform.

Cloud Brain III will use the new Ascend 910C processor and have up to 16,000 petaflops, or quadrillions of floating-point operations per second, of computing power, said Gao Wen, director of the Peng Cheng Laboratory, at an AI forum held at Peking University in Beijing Friday.