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Huawei unveils new chip technology; Chinese company accelerates AI competition with NVIDIA

Huawei unveils new chip technology; Chinese company accelerates AI competition with NVIDIA

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September 17th, 2026

Huawei unveils new chip technology; Chinese company accelerates AI competition with NVIDIA

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Huawei, China's technology behemoth, has unveiled a novel chip technology intended to challenge global hegemons such as NVIDIA, underscoring that the gap between the United States and China in the realm of artificial intelligence is steadily narrowing.

中国のテクノロジー巨頭ファーウェイは、NVIDIAをはじめとする世界的覇者らに対する挑戦を企図した新規のチップ技術を公表し、人工知能領域における米中間の隔たりが収斂しつつあることを浮き彫りにした。

It was merely a few days before the scheduled September 24 meeting in Washington between US President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping that Huawei made its announcement at an annual keynote conference held in Shanghai on Thursday.

ファーウェイが木曜日に上海で開催された年次基調会議において発表したのは、9月24日にワシントンで予定される米国のドナルド・トランプ大統領と中国の習近平国家主席の会談の、わずか数日前のことであった。

Barred by US-led restrictions from accessing the world's most advanced AI chips and cutting-edge semiconductor manufacturing equipment, China has rapidly pursued technological self-reliance, beginning with chips.

米国主導の制限措置によって世界で最も先進的なAIチップおよび最先端の半導体製造装置へのアクセスを阻まれた中国はチップをはじめとする技術的自立を急速に追求してきた

At the event, Huawei unveiled the Atlas 960 SuperPoD computing cluster.

ファーウェイはイベントにおいてAtlas 960 SuperPoDコンピューティングクラスターを披露した

This is the successor to a model that was brought to market only a few months earlier, and it delivers improvements in AI training as well as in "inference" (the process by which a trained AI carries out predictions and decision-making).

これはわずか数カ月前に市場投入されたモデルの後継機でありAIトレーニングならびに「推論」トレーニング済みのAIが予測や意思決定を遂行するプロセスを指す)の向上を実現している

Huawei further intends to bring its Ascend 970 and 980 chip series to market in 2028 and 2029, and expectations are mounting that this will deliver a dramatic leap in computing power.

ファーウェイはさらに、2028年および2029年にAscend 970ならびに980チップシリーズを市場に投入する計画を有しており、計算能力の飛躍的向上がもたらされるものと期待を集めている。

"Coming less than two weeks before President Xi Jinping's visit to Washington, this moment underscores Beijing's confidence and ambition in technology and innovation," said George Chen, a partner at the consulting firm Asia Group and chair of its digital practice.

習近平国家主席のワシントン訪問に先立つ2週間足らずというこの時期は技術とイノベーションに対する北京の自信と野心を際立たせていると、コンサルティング会社アジア・グループのパートナーにしてデジタルプラクティス議長を務めるジョージ・チェン氏は述べた

Huawei's announcement coincided with a period in which President Trump dismissed appeals from leaders in the field of AI who urged that the development of AI technology be slowed for safety purposes.

ファーウェイの発表はトランプ大統領が安全上の目的からAI技術の開発を遅延させるよう求めるAI分野の指導者たちの訴えを軽視した時期と符合した

President Trump asserted that the United States must preserve its superiority over China, and remarked, "In AI, the winner takes all."

トランプ大統領は米国が中国に対する優位を維持しなければならないと主張し、「AIで勝者が勝者となると述べた

"AI is advancing at an astonishing pace, and there is no one who can be certain of maintaining an advantage forever," Chen remarked.

「AIの進歩は驚異的な速さで進展しており、永遠に優位性を維持できると確信し得る者など誰一人として存在しない」とチェン氏は述べた。

According to analysts, China's cutting-edge technologiesincluding the training of AI modelscontinue to exhibit a deeply entrenched reliance on American-made chips, NVIDIA's among them.

アナリストの見解によればAIモデルのトレーニングをはじめとする中国の先端技術は依然としてNVIDIA製を含む米国製チップに依存する傾向が根強い

Nevertheless, Huawei manufactures its own advanced chips, and at a juncture when Chinese AI companies are increasingly embracing the adoption of domestically produced chips, the company is holding fast to its competitive edge over China's other chip developers.

しかしながらファーウェイは独自の先端チップを製造しており中国のAI企業が国産チップの採用をいよいよ受容する趨勢にあって同社は中国のチップ開発業者に対する優位性を堅持している

The Atlas 960 SuperPoD computing cluster was unveiled so soon after the company had launched the Atlas 950 SuperPod at the end of last year that it was greeted with astonishment among some technology analysts.

Atlas 960 SuperPoDコンピューティングクラスターは、同社が昨年末にAtlas 950 SuperPodを投入した矢先の発表であったことから、一部の技術アナリストの間で驚嘆をもって迎えられた。

"The very fact that Huawei accomplished this upgrade in merely a single year will only serve to heighten, far more rapidly than ever before, America's apprehensions regarding the accelerating AI race," Chen remarked.

「ファーウェイが僅か1年でこのアップグレードを成し遂げたという事実は、従来よりはるかに急速に、AI競争の加速に対する米国の懸念を募らせるのみであろう」とチェン氏は述べた。

September 17th, 2026

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