In the field of memory, China seems to have quickly caught up, with Changxin Storage and Yangtze Memory even leading in some areas. Now, China also appears to be making strides in artificial intelligence chips, a field long dominated by U.S. giant NVIDIA. According to the Financial Times, Huawei has increased the yield rate of its latest AI chips to nearly 40%, double the 20% rate a year ago.

The report pointed out that this milestone progress made Huawei's Ascend chip production line profitable for the first time, marking a major achievement for the technology conglomerate.The report also said that Huawei is currently launching the Ascend910C processor, with the goal of further increasing production to 60%, consistent with industry standards for similar chips.The Financial Times reported that Huawei plans to produce 100,000 910C processors and 300,000 910B chips in 2025, while its output in 2024 will be 200,000 910B chips and no 910C chips.This achievement is no small feat given that TSMC was forced to stop production of Ascend and other advanced Huawei chips in 2020 due to U.S. sanctions.According to previous reports by Wccftech and Tom'sHardware, Huawei's Ascend910C is a completely independently developed chip, manufactured using SMIC's 7-nanometer N+2 process, with 53 billion transistors. The previous generation product was manufactured by TSMC on the N7+ process, while the 910C computing chip is produced by SMIC. The performance of Ascend910C has reached 60% of Nvidia H100, and its reasoning capabilities are very strong.But for now, Nvidia still dominates the Chinese market. Another Reuters report noted that Chinese companies are increasing orders for Nvidia's H20 artificial intelligence chips, driven by rising demand for DeepSeek's affordable artificial intelligence models.