Huawei plans three-year campaign to overtake Nvidia in AI chips

Huawei Technologies Co. openly admits its silicon can’t match Nvidia Corp.’s in raw power and speed. So to pack the same punch, China’s national champion is counting on its traditional strengths: brute force, networking, and policy support.

Huawei on Thursday took the rare step of publicising a three-year vision for eroding Nvidia’s dominance in the AI boom. Rotating Chairman Eric Xu outlined the technology the Shenzhen-based company envisions in painstaking detail during its annual Huawei Connect conference, triggering wall-to-wall media…