Huawei Begins Delivering CloudMatrix 384 AI Clusters to Chinese Clients; Costs Triple NVIDIA’s GB200 NVL72 System

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So here’s the latest scoop from the tech world—Huawei’s whipping out something rather big. I mean, if you haven’t been tuned into the geeky gossip, they’ve got this AI cluster thingy called CloudMatrix 384 that’s got some folks in China, these tech giant types, all abuzz. And yeah, it’s apparently quite the challenger to NVIDIA’s stuff. Who’d have thought, right? Anyway—wait, no—where was I? Oh yeah, it’s like they’re playing David against Goliath, especially with NVIDIA suddenly looking all shaky in its China game.

Now, it’s not like Huawei’s sitting pretty without a care. Nope, seems they’re charging forward like an excited puppy chasing after its tail, trying to expand their AI wizardry, or whatever they call it. This CloudMatrix 384 thing? Yep, all homegrown, in-house magic, and folks say it’s giving NVIDIA’s tech a run for its money in China’s neck of the woods. At least, that’s what the suits at the Financial Times are saying—10 big-name players, not that we know who, are jumping on the bandwagon.

Oh, right, for the tech nerds wanting the deets—lemme see. Last I heard, this thing’s packed with like, a crazy number of Ascend 910C chips, 384 to be exact. They’ve got this cool “all-to-all topology” (whatever that means, but sounds nifty). And get this—a CloudMatrix can supposedly crank out 300 PetaFLOPS in BF16 mode. I’m guessing that’s good. Nearly double what NVIDIA’s got, if numbers are your thing. But here’s the kicker—sucks up 3.9 times the power of the NVIDIA gear. Ouch, right?

Oh, and price—hold onto your hats—it’s like $8 million a pop for one of these bad boys. Yeah, not pocket change, and almost triple what NVIDIA’s setup would hit you for. So, maybe it’s not about penny-pinching performance here—it’s about packing homegrown punch and saying, “Yeah, we’ve got this.” Like, if that doesn’t make you scratch your head wondering about cost versus coolness, I don’t know what will.

And there it is. Why I’m still pondering this? No idea. But it stuck with me. So, waiting to see how this plays out—because, really, who knows where this tech game is heading next?