Huawei Bid to Build Egypt's AI Data Centres, US Counters
The proposal would export 2,008 Ascend chips and pair Huawei with iFlytek on recognition tools and city monitoring, according to the bid documents.
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Huawei bid to build Egypt's AI data centres, US counters
Huawei has bid to build AI data centres for the Egyptian government. The US State Department is now trying to assemble a rival consortium from Nvidia, AMD and Microsoft. The tender offer proposes exporting 1,408 of Huawei’s top-end Ascend 950-series chips for an AI training cloud. A further 600, either the same chips or the […] This story continues at The Next Web
Huawei Courts Egypt With AI Chips in Test of US Tech Diplomacy
Huawei Technologies Co. has pitched the Egyptian government on building AI data centers for military, surveillance and other public sector use, demonstrating its global chip ambitions and drawing alarm in Washington — where officials are working to assemble a counteroffer.
Huawei is knocking on the door of Egypt. The Chinese company has put on the table a proposal to build data centers in the country.Huawei has responded to an Egyptian government bid with an offer to supply 1,408 Ascend 950 chips for an entertainment infrastructure of artificial intelligence models. To them would be added another 600 processors, of the same family or of the superior model (Ascend 910B), for two clusters of inference, according to …
Egypt is not simply being asked to choose who will build its new Artificial Intelligence infrastructure. It is, in fact, being asked to choose a technological camp. On one side is Huawei, the… The US-China battle over Artificial Intelligence is being transferred to Egypt - ΘΑΦΤΕΜΟΠΟΡΙΚΙ
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