Huawei challenges Nvidia with powerful new AI accelerator card
SCMP Tech / 3/20/2026
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Key Points
- Huawei unveiled its Atlas 350 AI accelerator card, signaling a challenge to Nvidia in the AI hardware arena.
- Huawei claims the Atlas 350 delivers 1.56 petaflops of FP4 computing power.
- The company asserts this performance is 2.8 times Nvidia's H20 chip.
- The launch positions Huawei as a competitive force in AI accelerators, potentially reshaping the market.
Chinese tech giant Huawei Technologies has launched the Atlas 350 accelerator card for inference, boasting higher computing power for artificial intelligence applications and better performance than US rival Nvidia’s H20, as AI rapidly advances into the agentic era.
The Atlas 350 AI accelerator card would be powered by Huawei’s latest Ascend 950PR chip, designed to deliver enhanced computing power and storage for AI inferencing, said Ma Haixu, a vice-president at Huawei, at the firm’s China...
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