According to what was reported by the agency Reuters, Huawei plans to radically change its production strategy, focusing its efforts on the AI chip Ascend 910B.
However, this new strategy will have a negative impact on the production of smartphones and, apparently, the ones who will pay the price will be the ones Mate 60.
Huawei makes both the Ascend AI chip and the chip Kirin, which powers the Mate 60, in a single structure. However, according to Reuters, the Chinese manufacturer plans to focus on the former.
The demand for AI chips, widely used in model training Artificial intelligence, has grown dramatically in recent months. This also caused delays in the production of chips for the Mate 60, a smartphone that earned the tech giant a lot of money. In fact, the device even beat it on Chinese territory Apple for sales in 2023.
In fact, slowing down phone production to focus on AI chips represents a bold and interesting challenge for Huawei.
Huawei puts smartphone production on the back burner
If the demand for AI chips is very high globally, in Chinese this is even higher. After the United States imposed export restrictionsIn fact, in the Asian country the shortage was even more concrete, potentially creating gaps in the development of AI.
Taking into account that all the most important countries in the world are trying to carve out a space for themselves in this emerging market, this situation is quite indigestible for the Chinese government.
Companies like Baidu have released it to the public LLM e chatbot more than appreciable, but they still have to work hard to be considered as effective competitors of ChatGPT Of OpenAI o di Bard Of Google. China was the first country to propose AI policies, setting up an approval process before releasing them to the public.
Certainly, the Beijing government has no intention of falling behind other world powers.