Huawei Technologies’ advanced data centre architecture, CloudMatrix 384, has enabled the company’s Ascend chips to surpass the performance of Nvidia’s H800 graphics processing units (GPUs) in running DeepSeek’s R1 artificial intelligence (AI) model, according to a technical paper. Jointly written by researchers from Huawei and Chinese AI infrastructure start-up SiliconFlow, the paper described CloudMatrix 384 as a specialised “AI supernode” that is purpose-built for handling extensive AI...