The U.S. government restricted Huawei's access to advanced process technologies in 2020, but despite this, the company continues to advance its technologies, particularly in such fields as artificial intelligence. Apparently, the company is using outdated hardware obtained years ago for its current AI projects, reports DigiTimes. At its Huawei Developer Conference this week, Huawei also unveiled its new Pangu Models 3.0 AI Large Model for a wide range of industrial and scientific applications.
Before Huawei was hit by severe sanctions in 2020, the company's HiSilicon division was among the largest clients of TSMC and obtained plenty of chips made on the foundry's N7 (7nm-class) process technology. The chips in question are Kunpeng 920 processors as well as Ascend 910 AI accelerators that are used for Huawei's Atlas 900 Pod A2 AI training cluster that Huawei's using to advance its AI efforts.
