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How Huawei’s Ascend AI chips outperform Nvidia processors in running DeepSeek’s R1 model
Performance of Huawei’s AI data centre architecture, CloudMatrix 384, illustrates the firm’s progress in overcoming US tech control measures
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Wency Chenin Shanghai
Published: 7:00pm, 19 Jun 2025
Huawei Technologies’ advanced data centre architecture, CloudMatrix 384, has enabled the company’s Ascend chips to surpass the performance of Nvidia’s H800 graphics processing units (GPUs) in running DeepSeek’s R1 artificial intelligence (AI) model, according to a technical paper.