Huawei has seen strong demand for its AI chips. It reported a 34 percent increase in first-half revenues on Thursday, without providing a breakdown of sales for its different businesses. China’s efforts to match US computing power in artificial intelligence are being hampered by bug-ridden software, with customers of leading AI chipmaker Huawei complaining about performance issues and the difficulty of switching from Nvidia products. Its Ascend series has become an increasingly popular option for Chinese AI groups to run inference, a process that applications such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT use to generate responses to queries. Will Huawei Chips match US intelligence ?

