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Huawei released a new chip, and Chinese companies are catching up with Nvidia in the AI race.

Huawei released a new chip, and Chinese companies are catching up with Nvidia in the AI race.

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September 17th, 2026

Huawei released a new chip, and Chinese companies are catching up with Nvidia in the AI race.

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The Chinese tech company Huawei released new chip technology.

中国科技公司华为发布了新的芯片技术

It is challenging world-leading companies like Nvidia.

在挑战英伟达世界领先的公司

This shows the AI gap between China and the US is getting smaller.

这说明中国和美国在人工智能方面的差距正在变小

Huawei held an important meeting in Shanghai on Thursday.

华为周四在上海开了一个重要会议

It announced this news at the meeting.

在会上宣布了这个消息

In a few days, US President Trump and China's President Xi Jinping may meet.

几天后美国总统特朗普中国国家主席习近平预计见面

The meeting is on September 24 in Washington.

见面时间9月24日,地点在华盛顿

The US is leading the way to limit China.

美国带头限制中国

These limits stop China from buying some of the best AI chips.

这些限制不让中国买到一些最好的AI芯片

They also stop China from buying new chip-making machines.

也不让中国买到先进的芯片制造设备

So China keeps working hard to make its own technology.

所以中国一直在努力自己造技术

Huawei showed the Atlas 960 SuperPoD computing cluster at this event.

华为在这次活动上推出了Atlas 960 SuperPoD计算集群

This is a faster version of a model it released a few months ago.

这是它几个月前发布的型号的更快版本

It is better at AI training and "inference".

它在AI训练“推理”方面更好

Huawei also plans to launch the Ascend 970 and 980 chip series. It will launch them in 2028 and 2029.

华为还计划在2028年和2029年推出昇腾970和980芯片系列

These chips are expected to be much more powerful at computing.

这些芯片的计算能力预计会大大提高

George Chen is a partner at The Asia Group. He said this happened less than two weeks before Xi Jinping went to Washington.

咨询公司The Asia Group的合伙人兼数字业务主席陈乔治说,这个时间离习近平去华盛顿不到两周。

This shows Beijing has confidence in technology and innovation. It also shows Beijing has ambition.

这显示北京对技术和创新有信心,也有雄心。

Analysts say China still often needs US chips for new technology, like training AI models. This includes Nvidia chips.

分析人士说,中国在训练AI模型等先进技术方面,还是常常要用美国芯片,包括英伟达的芯片。

But Huawei has already made its own new chips.

但华为已经造出了自己的先进芯片。

It stays ahead among Chinese chip developers.

它在中国芯片开发商中保持领先。

George Chen also said Huawei did this upgrade in only one year.

陈乔治还说,华为只用一年就做到了这次升级。

This speed is much faster than before.

这个速度比以前快很多。

This only makes the US more worried that the AI race is speeding up.

这只会让美国更担心AI竞争在加快。

September 17th, 2026

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