Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. unveiled the results of its push into semiconductors on Wednesday, presenting its own Ascend solutions with machine learning capabilities. The cellphone manufacturer is looking to compete with rivals such as Qualcomm and Nvidia and says its chips for enterprises would run cloud services and data centers for driverless cars and different devices, which is a realm ruled by the likes of Amazon and Microsoft.
The strategy will be carefully tracked in the United States, where the administration of President Donald Trump is raising the issue of intellectual property theft in China. The rise of technology in the most populous country has taken the issue to the center of the ongoing trade war, together with accusations of currency manipulation.
The company headquartered in Shenzhen revealed its artificial intelligence bets at a conference in Shanghai. The units are marked 310 and 910, where the latter will be introduced by June, Huawei said. Earlier it rolled out its Kirin processors for mobile devices, also underpinned by AI.
