Orange alert as rain leaves Gurugram waterlogged; disrupts traffic The Sector 52A market was among the most affected areas, with visuals showing commuters wading through knee-deep water Published on: Aug 24, 2026, 14:14:38 IST By Sampurna Panigrahi, Mihika Shah
‘Buy buy buy!’: Foreign tourist reacts to duty-free shopping after Delhi immigration A foreign tourist has posted a video of his Delhi airport experience, questioning the shopping pitches he encountered just after immigration. Published on: Aug 24, 2026
India security chief visits China for border talks India security chief visits China for border talks Published on: Aug 24, 2026, 14:06:38 IST AFP Prefer HTon Google Share via Copy link India's top security official arrived in Beijing on Monday for talks on the countries' disputed Himalayan border
Twenty-one former international cricket captains, including India’s Sunil Gavaskar, Kapil Dev and Dilip Vengsarkar, on Sunday urged Pakistan to ensure that former Prime Minister Imran Khan is examined by a medical board, as directed by the country’s Supreme Court, The Hindu reported
A 25-year-old entrepreneur with a net worth of around ₹4.35 crore has turned to Reddit for advice after a sharp decline in the business that helped him build his fortune. Despite his wealth, he says he is now unsure about what to do next and feels “completely lost
Not a chief guests, celebrity or VIP, but a humanoid robot stole the spotlight at a sandwich shop inauguration. A video from the celebratory event has gone viral, where the robot was seen arriving at the venue with bodyguards. It then proceeded to greet guests and even broke into a dance
‘Jo bhi hai, tera ghar hai’: American compares Indian and US hospitality An American Hindi speaker’s take on Indian hospitality has viewers discussing the differences between socialising in India and the US. Published on: Aug 24, 2026, 13:31:09 IST By Vaishali Kapila Prefer HTon Google Share
Manipur: 1 CRPF personnel injured, 2 houses burnt by unknown armed individuals The gunfight broke out after two houses belonging to separate communities were set ablaze by an unidentified group of people Published on: Aug 24, 2026, 13:49:38 IST By Thomas Ngangom
Huawei, backed by Beijing, unveils AI vision to challenge Nvidia’s global grip
At Huawei Connect, Beijing’s national champion unveils bold AI roadmap to take on Nvidia
Huawei Technologies Co. has unveiled an unusually detailed vision for how it intends to chip away at Nvidia Corp.'s overwhelming lead in artificial intelligence hardware, combining sheer scale with China's state-backed drive for technological self-reliance.
A Roadmap to Counter US Rivals
At its annual Huawei Connect conference in Shenzhen on Thursday, the company's rotating chairman Eric Xu set out a three-year roadmap designed to counter Nvidia's dominance in the global AI race. Huawei admitted that its silicon cannot match the American firm's in raw computing power or efficiency. Instead, it aims to compensate by harnessing its traditional strengths: large-scale clustering, advanced networking, and firm government backing.The announcement stood out for its openness. Huawei has historically kept its hardware strategy under wraps, often forcing industry analysts to dismantle its smartphones to determine the underlying chip technology. The firm's latest disclosures therefore marked a rare shift towards transparency, coinciding with delicate high-level talks between Washington and Beijing.
Breaking with Huawei's Tradition of Secrecy
Xu's presentation came with the sort of high drama typically associated with an Nvidia product launch. He unveiled the company's next generation of Ascend-branded processors alongside upgraded “SuperPod” data-centre designs – a direct echo of Nvidia's own terminology for large-scale computing platforms. Huawei's new “UnifiedBus” interconnect protocol was also formally introduced, enabling the theoretical linking of up to 15,488 Ascend chips in a single system.The strategy amounts to overwhelming rivals through numbers. Huawei insists its self-designed interconnect system enables chip-to-chip data transfers up to 62 times faster than Nvidia's forthcoming NVLink144, dwarfing the capabilities of the current NVLink72 platform that connects the US company's Blackwell GPUs and Grace CPUs.
Bernstein Research analysts described Huawei's willingness to articulate its AI plans in public as a sign of confidence that it has secured dependable manufacturing capacity within China, despite being cut off from Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSMC), the world's most advanced foundry. “These developments indicate Huawei has built a local semiconductor ecosystem robust enough to withstand supply chain disruption,” Bernstein's Qingyuan Lin wrote.
Beijing Pushes Indigenous Innovation
The bold roadmap comes as other major Chinese technology players – including Alibaba Group and Baidu – have begun revealing progress in AI chip design. For years such announcements were rare, as firms sought to avoid drawing scrutiny from Washington. But with chip policy now central to US–China negotiations, Beijing has urged companies to accelerate indigenous innovation and reduce reliance on foreign suppliers.US restrictions have already cut Huawei off from advanced lithography tools and leading memory vendors such as SK Hynix. Nonetheless, Xu argued that Huawei can close the performance gap by linking massive numbers of its processors into “super clusters”. The company says it has developed a self-designed high-bandwidth memory architecture to allow chips to exchange data at unprecedented speeds, mitigating some of the limitations of less advanced process technology.
By 2028, Huawei expects its Ascend 970 chip to feature a 4 terabit-per-second interconnect speed, more than double the 1.8 Tbps Nvidia currently offers. Xu stressed that this networking prowess draws on Huawei's long history of building advanced communications equipment for the telecoms industry.
Yet significant doubts remain. Jefferies analysts cautioned that Huawei's earlier plan to release the Ascend 910D at 5 nanometres has stalled due to poor production yields, underlining the challenges posed by restricted access to advanced chipmaking equipment. “A lack of state-of-the-art manufacturing tools is still China's biggest hurdle in reducing dependence on Nvidia,” the bank's Edison Lee said.
Performance comparisons also reveal the scale of the challenge. Analysts estimate that Huawei's upcoming Ascend 950 delivers only around 6 per cent of the computing power expected from Nvidia's next-generation VR200 superchip. Nvidia, meanwhile, continues to set the industry pace, with even traditional rivals AMD and Intel struggling to keep up.
Clusters as China's Way Forward
Huawei nevertheless insists it can bridge the divide through scale. Xu claimed clusters of up to a million chips could theoretically deliver computing power on par with Western rivals. He positioned this “brute force” approach as the only viable route for China to overcome constraints in process technology.“We believe only by relying on ‘SuperPod' and cluster technology can we achieve a breakthrough in the constraints we face in chipmaking and supply endless computing support for our country's AI development,” Xu told state media last week.
The Chinese government has placed the semiconductor industry at the heart of its industrial policy. President Xi Jinping has met with leading technology entrepreneurs, including Huawei founder Ren Zhengfei, to stress the need for breakthroughs in strategic sectors. Officials have also pledged to mobilise national resources to accelerate progress, while moving to curb Chinese firms' purchases of certain Nvidia components.
Huawei's ambitions highlight the shifting dynamics of the AI hardware market. While Nvidia remains the undisputed leader, the combination of political pressure, state subsidies and technical ingenuity is enabling Chinese companies to narrow the gap. The unveiling of Huawei's roadmap – once unthinkable given the company's penchant for secrecy – underscores both its determination and Beijing's confidence in a home-grown path forward.
Still, much depends on whether Huawei can produce these chips at scale. Its surprise release of a 7-nanometre processor for the Mate 60 Pro smartphone in 2023 demonstrated technical ingenuity but also exposed the limits of Chinese manufacturing, which has yet to move beyond that node. Without further breakthroughs in lithography and fabrication, Huawei's AI ambitions could remain constrained.
For now, the company is leaning on its historic strength in networking and large-scale systems integration. Whether its “SuperPod” clusters can compensate for weaker single-chip performance will be tested in the years ahead. In the meantime, its high-profile unveiling signals a clear message: Huawei intends to position itself as China's national champion in the AI race, regardless of the obstacles placed in its path.
(With inputs from Bloomberg)
Source: LiveMint
Related Posts: Huawei Technologies, artificial intelligence, Nvidia, chip design, semiconductor industry, Huawei vs Nvidia, Huawei, AI chips, Ascend processors, SuperPod, UnifiedBus
No need to panic over H1N1 surge in K'taka: Minister Khader No need to panic over H1N1 surge in K'taka: Minister Khader Published on: Aug 24, 2026, 13:51:09 IST PTI Prefer HTon Google Share via Copy link Bengaluru, Karnataka Health Minister U T Khader on Monday assured the public that there was no
9 hours ago
‘You endorse misogyny, cut the crap’: Shehzad Poonawalla joins BJP attack on Rahul Gandhi's ‘smash patriarchy’ call Shehzad Poonawalla and BJP were responding to Rahul Gandhi's call to "smash the patriarchy" during his party's 'Chhatro ki Goonj' programme in Pune. Updated on: Aug 24, 2026
12 hours ago
For Delhi-NCR residents, Guleria struck a reassuring note while explaining why this year’s wave has felt worse, but citizens need not panic The H1N1 virus driving Delhi-NCR’s current flu surge appears to be changing its structure — a process that is making it spread faster and slip past the
12 hours ago
A job applicant’s unusual rejection from a software engineering internship has left the internet divided after the candidate was reportedly turned down over the name of their resume file. The incident was highlighted in a now-viral post on X by user @adnaannasir_
12 hours ago
Elderly woman killed, husband injured in SUV hit-and-run at Delhi's posh GK-1 The woman, identified as Shashi, was declared brought dead at the hospital, while her husband Kulbhushan (65), was left injured. Published on: Aug 24, 2026, 11:00:26 IST By HT News Desk Prefer HTon Google Share via Copy
12 hours ago
Woman reflects on high-rise living in big cities: ‘Even the slice of the sky is fixed for us’ A woman shared her thoughts on high-rise life, saying big-city living can feel confined despite better work opportunities. Published on: Aug 24, 2026
12 hours ago
Governor Abdullah Sarhadi gives money to treat a boy's broken arm and hands out funds for a local mosque - then, in his office in northern Afghanistan, an astonishing exchange unfolds. A young woman tells the grey-bearded former Taliban commander that she wants to divorce her husband
12 hours ago
Andy Burnham is marking his first foreign visit as prime minister with a trip to Kyiv - and will hand over blueprints so Ukraine can build its own long-range missiles. The prime minister will chair his first meeting of the "coalition of the willing"
12 hours ago
Apple’s next iPhone launch is getting closer, and the company’s usual September schedule is beginning to take shape. According to a recent Forbes report, Apple could hold its special event on Wednesday, September 9, where it is expected to introduce the iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone 18 Pro Max
12 hours ago
Fugitive gangster Goldy Brar has, in an audio clip, purportedly claimed responsibility for the killing of Khalistani separatist leader Hardeep Singh Nijjar in Canada, The Indian Express reported. The newspaper said it could not independently verify the authenticity of the audio clip
12 hours ago
Dad crashes daughter’s late-night work meeting over parcels: ‘Ek paise ki saving nahi karti’ A father’s surprise appearance during his daughter’s work call turns into a lecture on spending and saving. Updated on: Aug 24, 2026, 10:56:44 IST By Vaishali Kapila Prefer HTon Google Share via
12 hours ago
A Zimbabwean content creator’s tongue-in-cheek take on life in India has caught the attention of social media users after he shared 10 everyday conveniences that have completely changed his standard of living. From paying for almost everything with just a phone to having food
12 hours ago
Starting September 1, passengers traveling internationally will be required to use an e-boarding pass on their smartphones for immigration clearance, as announced by immigration authorities. This significant change comes as the Bureau of Immigration (BOI)
15 hours ago
The September 2026 US Visa Bulletin brings a mixed picture for Indian green card applicants. While some family-sponsored categories have moved forward, several employment-based categories remain severely constrained, with two India-specific categories listed as unavailable and the State Department
15 hours ago
The Maharashtra Transport Department has issued notices to 777 drivers for lacking practical knowledge of Marathi, The Hindu quoted unidentified officials as saying on Saturday. A total of 5,211 drivers were tested during a statewide inspection campaign that began on August 20, including 3
15 hours ago
19-year-old killed, friend injured after truck hits motorcycle on Delhi's Indraprastha flyover A police team reached the spot and found a motorcycle lying in a damaged condition and two people seriously injured. One of them died in the hospital. Updated on: Aug 24, 2026
15 hours ago
Indian woman reveals why her family returned to India after 13 years in US: ‘You don’t really belong here’ A woman shared five reasons her family decided to leave the US and return to India after 13 years. Published on: Aug 24, 2026, 07:43:56 IST By Mahipal Singh Chouhan Prefer HTon Google
15 hours ago
New UK PM Andy Burnham to make visit to Kyiv on Monday: office New UK PM Andy Burnham to make visit to Kyiv on Monday: office Updated on: Aug 24, 2026, 07:41:28 IST AFP Prefer HTon Google Share via Copy link British Prime Minister Andy Burnham will visit Kyiv on Monday on his first international
15 hours ago
Bengaluru vs Gurgaon? Man who lived in both cities explains why the comparison is ‘completely pointless’ A man said the Bengaluru versus Gurgaon debate was pointless and urged people to live in both cities before deciding. Published on: Aug 24, 2026
15 hours ago
Circle Wealth CIO and Managing Partner Chadha said the market was rewarding companies with strong earnings and improving outlooks, even as large-cap stocks remained under pressure. Diwali season is expected to bring a fresh boost for Indian equities following strong corporate earnings
15 hours ago
The restriction was imposed under Section 26A of the Drugs and Cosmetics Act, 1940, which governs the import, manufacture, distribution, and sale of drugs and cosmetics. The central government on Saturday restricted the manufacturing, sale and distribution of all fixed-dose combinations (FDCs)
15 hours ago
Ukraine backers gather as war escalates, air defence runs low Ukraine backers gather as war escalates, air defence runs low Updated on: Aug 24, 2026, 07:41:29 IST AFP Prefer HTon Google Share via Copy link Ukraine on Monday hosts a meeting of its key European backers to press for critical
15 hours ago
'Trouble proving citizenship after representing India in 3 countries': Ex-envoy to ECI over Punjab SIR Suri served as India’s ambassador to the UAE and Egypt and high commissioner to Australia. Updated on: Aug 24, 2026, 07:34:33 IST By HT Correspondent Prefer HTon Google Share via Copy link
15 hours ago
2 killed after illegal building in Hyderabad's Gachibowli caves in Officials alleged that the building was built over or adjacent to a drain without the required permissions. Published on: Aug 23, 2026, 14:41:02 IST By Srinivasa Rao Apparasu Prefer HTon Google Share via Copy link At least two
1 days ago
J'khand: Compensation of ₹31 lakh each given to families of 3 engineers burnt alive at steel plant J'khand: Compensation of ₹31 lakh each given to families of 3 engineers burnt alive at steel plant Published on: Aug 23, 2026, 14:43:04 IST PTI Prefer HTon Google Share via Copy link Ramgarh
1 days ago
Jaiñtia Hills to the G7: Can Meghalaya turn ‘Lakadong’ into a global brand? The high-curcumin turmeric has gone from an obscure hill crop to a GI-tagged premium product showcased before world leaders. Updated on: Aug 23, 2026, 14:48:20 IST By David Laitphlang
1 days ago
Ex-NRI shares why she takes auto for 1 km ride to gym after moving to India: 'Life here is a compromise' The woman shared that she has to walk through an area where "everybody stares", while the pathway is "ubad-khabad", dirty and encroached. Updated on: Aug 23, 2026
1 days ago
