Ren Zhengfei, founder and chief executive of Chinese telecommunications equipment giant Huawei Technologies, said the company’s Ascend chips still lag behind those from the US “by a generation”, but state-of-the-art performance can still be achieved by using other methods. In a front page interview published on Tuesday by the People’s Daily, the mouthpiece of the Communist Party, Ren said by using methods like “stacking and clustering, the computing results are comparable” to the most advanced...