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Huawei Releases AI Data Lake Solution,

Positioned to Accelerate Industry Intelligence

At the 4th Huawei Innovative Data Infrastructure (IDI) Forum in AI corpus and vector database backup: Huawei's OceanProtect
Munich, Germany, Huawei launched the AI Data Lake Solution, Backup Storage provides 10 times higher backup performance
designed to accelerate AI adoption across industries. Peter Zhou, than other mainstream options and boasts 99.99% ransomware
Vice President of Huawei and President of Huawei Data Storage attack detection accuracy, safeguarding key data of training corpus
Product Line, introduced the solution in his keynote speech: and vector databases in fields like oil and gas and MSPs. Huawei
"Data Awakening, Accelerating Intelligence with AI-Ready Data DME is a data management platform that integrates the Omni-
Infrastructure." While digital transformation has evolved over Dataverse to help customers eliminate data silos in geographically
decades and brought sweeping change, one thing remains constant: dispersed data centers. In addition, DME's ability to retrieve data
the critical importance of data. This was highlighted in Zhou from over 100 billion files in seconds helps customers efficiently
speech: "To be Al-ready, get data-ready. The continuous deepening process data and unlock its full potential. Powered by virtualization
of industry digitalization is a process of transforming data into and container technologies, the DCS platform provides efficient
information and knowledge." By integrating data storage, data xPU resource pooling and intelligent scheduling, boosting resource
management, resource management, and the AI toolchain, the AI utilization. In addition, the DataMaster in DME enables all-scenario,
Data Lake Solution delivers a high-quality AI corpus and speeds up AI-powered O&M with AI Copilot, offering a range of AI applications
model training and inference, empowering enterprises to embrace such as intelligent Q&A, O&M assistant, and inspection expert,
AI. In his address, Zhou provided details about the products and creating an exceptional O&M experience.
technologies that are part of the Data Lake solution. Accelerated
AI model training and inference: The Huawei OceanStor A series
high-performance AI storage delivers exceptional performance.
It, for instance, enabled the AI technologies developer iFLYTEK,
among others, to significantly boost cluster training efficiency. Its
advanced inference acceleration technology enhances inference
performance, reduces latency, and elevates the application user
experience—accelerating the deployment of large-model inference
applications in production environments. Efficient storage of
mass AI data: The OceanStor Pacific All-Flash Scale-Out Storage
offers a high capacity density of 4 PB/2 U and ultra-low power
consumption of 0.25 W/TB. Designed to manage exabyte-scale
data with ease, it is well-suited for data-intensive workloads
across education, scientific research, medical imaging, and media.

Huawei Prepares to Test Advanced AI Chip

Huawei continued to defy widening US trade sanctions, with The China in late 2023, the newspaper wrote. The first samples are
Wall Street Journal reporting the company plans to test an AI expected to be released next month. Huawei also is scheduled to
processor in the early development stage targeted at becoming start shipments of its 910C AI chip to domestic customers in May,
a replacement for Nvidia chips facing export controls to China. The Wall Street Journal wrote. Founder of industry blog Radio Free
The Chinese company is lining up customers to test the technical Mobile Richard Windsor suggested Huawei is likely to remain stuck
feasibility of the Ascend 910D chip, which it is positioning to be at 7nm with Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp
more powerful than Nvidia’s H100 chip, which was banned in (SMIC), as it is at the limits of what multi-patterning can produce.
He added the sudden acceleration of product development is
driven by “the deepening rift between the West and China” and
mainland’s need to cut its dependence on Western technology.
In August 2023, Huawei sent shockwaves across the industry by
unveiling the Mate 60 Pro powered by its Kirin 9000s chipset. The
use of a homegrown main processor, designed by the company’s
chip unit HiSilicon and produced by SMIC using a 7nm process,
was promoted in China as a major win over US export controls.
Since then, the US Department of Commerce has added a number
of new restrictions on the sale of AI chips to China. Following the
first US export curbs on AI chips, Nvidia reconfigured its high-end
H100 for the China market.

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