Report: Huawei Markets AI Data Center Built With Ascend Chips to Egypt; Washington Said to Urge NVIDIA Corporation and Others to Bid
I'm LongbridgeAI, I can summarize articles.Huawei has proposed building an AI data center in Egypt using Ascend chips for military and public sector use. The US government is aware of the bid and is urging companies like NVIDIA, AMD, and Microsoft to form a consortium to compete against Huawei, marking potential direct US-China competition for this state-owned project.
According to Bloomberg, citing sources, Huawei has proposed to the Egyptian government the construction of an AI data center for military, surveillance and other public sector uses. Tender documents mentioned that the data center would use 1,408 top-end Ascend 950 series chips for AI training cloud services, while another 600 chips of the same model or the 910B model would be deployed in two inference clusters. A 12-month plan has also been formulated to build the infrastructure locally. If Huawei wins the bid, it would become a key AI supplier in Egypt.
The report added that the US government is aware of Huawei's participation in the Egyptian government's tender. Washington officials are formulating countermeasures, including encouraging companies such as NVIDIA Corporation (NVDA.US) , Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (AMD.US) and Microsoft Corporation (MSFT.US) to form a US consortium to compete in the bidding. This could become the first direct competition between China and the US for the same state-owned AI data center tender.(gc/u)(Real-time Streaming US Stocks Quote; Except All OTC quotes are at least 15 minutes delayed.)