Huawei Seeks AI Chip Clients in Middle East, Southeast Asia
A senior Trump administration official has said Huawei can only make 200,000 AI chips this year, which are expected to be delivered mostly within China,.
Photographer: SeongJoon Cho/BloombergHuawei Technologies Co. is trying to export small quantities of AI chips to the Middle East and Southeast Asia, an effort to establish a foothold in markets dominated by Nvidia Corp. despite ongoing manufacturing challenges.
The hardware giant — China’s strongest competitor to leading US chipmakers — has reached out to potential customers in the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia and Thailand about purchasing its older-generation Ascend 910B processors, according to people familiar with the matter. The two Gulf nations recently struck deals for well over a million Nvidia and Advanced Micro Devices Inc. chips over several years. Thailand’s artificial intelligence efforts similarly rely on Nvidia.