The Huawei Ascent 910C AI is manufactured by TSMC by jumping the US sanctions, according to a new analysis

Recently, Huawei announced its accelerators for AI Huawei Ascend 910c, A “own” “” created and manufactured “design in China to try to reduce the dependence of foreign chips such as the latest Blackwell accelerators in Nvidia and their corresponding vetoes. These chips soon caught attention for their high performance, being able to become a real alternative to the domain of American companies in a short time. They still do not reach the most powerful of Nvidia, but the road was already started.

However, it seems that it was not as idyllic as painted by the Chinese company, a signature report SEMIANALYSIS ensures that the ASCENT 910C is manufactured and based, for the most part, on components made with the N7 node of TSMC in Taiwan Together with HBM memories of Samsung (South Korea), using, therefore, ASML (Dutch) technology.

This would mean that it has not been the Chinese company SMIC that has manufactured the Huawei Ascend 910C, but has been designed in China and manufactured in other countries, suggesting that the Asian giant still has no capacity to make advanced chips with 7nm or inferior nodes.

It seems that Huawei would have been able to jump the restrictions Import of advanced chips acquiring the chips of the Ascend 910C (500 million dollars in wafers) through the company “Sophgo“, and I would even be using another company to do it.