Amid numerous sanctions imposed against China to block its access to AI accelerators, the company Huawei has set itself the task of import substitution for accelerators and developing its own sector. However, they are not forgetting about external markets either.
Specifically, in South Korea, Huawei plans to supply its Ascend accelerators. Valiang Wang, the head of Huawei’s local representative office, citing South Korean media, announced that Huawei officially intends to begin supplying AI accelerators and ready-made systems for AI data centers to South Korea.
Huawei is placing its hopes on the Ascend 950 as the representative of the series that could be exported. However, the South Korean market also actively uses products from the American company Nvidia, which will lead to competition. According to reports, Huawei has decided that in the South Korean market, they will sell complete solution complexes rather than individual components—data centers, network infrastructure, data storage, etc. Huawei will supply all of this immediately with computing power and software.
It is also interesting that, in addition to the AI market, Huawei is actively trying to start selling other products in the South Korean market. For example, they are interested in beginning sales of their own HarmonyOS operating system there.
As is known, for the Ascend 950, an analogue of HBM memory has been created, which Huawei developed independently.
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