Huawei may become the 4th player in the GPU server market if a new report by Korean news outlet The Elec is to be believed. The Elec has received reports from Industry Sources that Huawei is readying to enter the market in 2020, this will put them in direct competition with industry leader NVIDIA along with AMD and newcomer Intel. Huawei Korea will reportedly assign the project to the new Cloud and AI Business Group division, talent scouting has already begun with rumors of current and former NVIDIA staff getting poached.
Huawei is no newcomer to the server market having already launched the Ascend 910 one of the worlds most advanced AI accelerators in August 2019. The Ascend 910 outperforms the Tesla V100 by a factor of two, and is developed on a more advanced 7 nm+ technology compared to the 12 nm Tesla V100. In January 2020 Huawei launched their next server product the Kunpeng 920 a big data CPU along with a new server lineup featuring the chip. Considering Huawei's experience and resources in the server market along with Intel's entrance the GPU server landscape is set to become very competitive.
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for professional space yes. but consumer? no.
The card is specifically a GPGPU
A general-purpose graphics processing unit (GPGPU), is a graphics processing unit (GPU) processor that is used for purposes other than rendering graphics.
But to make But to make their own GPU they need their own GPU IP or license them from existing player. I don't think they have any GPU related IP. ARM only license ready made GPU design not allow other people use their IP to create their own GPU. same with imagination. Hence when apple try to build their own GPU they enter into legal issue with imagination before because apple does not have GPU IP of their own. And imagination also did not allow others to use their IP to create their own GPU. maybe they can help you to make custom gpu for your need but not building your own. ARM and imgination business model are more or less the same when it comes to licensing their GPU.