U. S. regulations and tariffs on Chinese imports may harm American firms, especially those that sell electronics to China, according to a record by The New York Times. As companies like NVIDIA brace for potential losses, possibly as high as$ 5. 5 billion from its H20 device, Chinese technology giant Huawei is seizing the opportunity by preparing a competing goods.
Huawei readies Ascend 920 device
Reuters reported on April 21 that Huawei has a novel chip set for Chinese firms that may be forced to seek an alternative to NVIDIA. The Ascend 920, first reported on by DigiTimes Asia, was replace NVIDIA’s H20 when it becomes available for purchase in the next quarter of 2025.
According to Tom’s Hardware, the Huawei Ascend 920 has 900 TFLOPs per cards and a 4 TB/s storage bandwidth, making it considerably more powerful than the NVIDIA H20. The H20 is a lower-power type of NVIDIA’s H100, built for the Chinese business in accordance with U. S. limits. AMD also faces strict limits on selling to China.
Huawei competes across a broad expanse of the digital planet, including with Apple on phones and Ericsson and Nokia in communications, according to The New York Times. Huawei may form a business partnership with DeepSeek, helping increase its China-based developed AI efforts.
Notice: Microsoft added AI officials to Copilot Studio, its application for customizing the AI Copilot.
Device sanctions on China course Biden and Trump periods amid rising technology tensions
On April 15, the Trump administration restricted NVIDIA, Advanced Micro Devices, and Intel from selling cards to China. Weeks later, shares in all three businesses fell. NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang met with Taiwanese officials and discussed the region’s value to the business.
An unidentified New York Times cause said China had use NVIDIA chips to create data centers as part of the Belt and Road Initiative, a soft power effort to plant Chinese-backed infrastructure worldwide. Sanctions against NVIDIA began in 2022 under previous President Joe Biden’s supervision to prevent the sale of high-performance chips to China.
Then, with pressure mounting on both flanks of the Pacific, the contest to control the future of AI and chipmaking is as much about politics as it is about golden.
