@bookwormengr: Wonderful coverage on CANN (Huawei's CUDA) and DeepSeek V4 inference on Huawei chips.... "CANN (Compute Architecture fo…
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Huawei has open-sourced its CANN software toolkit to compete with Nvidia's CUDA, and DeepSeek V4 shows significant inference performance improvements on Huawei Ascend chips.
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Wonderful coverage on CANN (Huawei’s CUDA) and DeepSeek V4 inference on Huawei chips….
“CANN (Compute Architecture for Neural Networks) is Huawei’s software toolkit for running AI workloads on its own Ascend chips. Starting August 2025, they’ve open-sourced CANN to attract more developers and to “chip” away at Nvidia’s dominance, especially within China given that the US government heavily restricts CUDA chip shipments into China.”
SemiAnalysis (@SemiAnalysis_): DeepSeekV4 1.6T Day 0 to Day 43 Performance Over Time - Huawei, GB300 NVL72, MI355X, B200 Day 0 Inference Performance on InferenceX 100x performance improvement in 26 Days Cost per Million Tokens Huawei 950DT Inference Trace Analysis
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