Q: What are the main products and application areas of Huawei's Ascend chips? From the perspective of market share, how does Huawei's Ascend chip compare with foreign competitors in terms of performance and ecology?
A: Huawei's Ascend chips mainly include the 910, 310 and GDP series. Among them, the 910 and 310 are mainly used for AI training and inference. Huawei has also launched a series of products called Atlas, including inference servers, accelerator cards, thrust cards, video cards and acceleration modules used in the cloud. These products are widely used in government operators, finance, manufacturing, energy, transportation and other industries. Their performance is comparable to NVIDIA, but Huawei focuses on ecological construction and invests a lot of resources.
Q: What are the main products and application areas of Huawei's Ascend chips? From the perspective of market share, how does Huawei's Ascend chip compare with foreign competitors in terms of performance and ecology?
A: Huawei's Ascend chips mainly include the 910, 310 and GDP series. Among them, the 910 and 310 are mainly used for AI training and inference. Huawei has also launched a series of products called Atlas, including inference servers, accelerator cards, thrust cards, video cards and acceleration modules used in the cloud. These products are widely used in government operators, finance, manufacturing, energy, transportation and other industries. Their performance is comparable to NVIDIA, but Huawei focuses on ecological construction and invests a lot of resources. In the Chinese market, Huawei's Ascend chips already account for about 8% of the market share in AI servers, and are expected to further increase in the future. Restricted by international policies, the United States has restricted the export of Huawei's AIGPU chips. This is an opportunity for Huawei, forcing more customers to switch to domestic Ascend chips. Domestically, Huawei is actually the largest player and is expected to increase its market share again next year. Overall, Ascend chips have a lot of room for development in the Chinese market.
Q: How high of skin can 910b and 910c achieve? How does the 920 perform?
A: 910b can reach more than 500 tons, 910c can reach more than 1200 tons, which is equivalent to h100. 920 can reach more than 1200 tons, which is equivalent to h100. According to the gas reform theory, the 910c can probably
Enough to do more than 1,000 tons.
Q: What is the mass production schedule of 910c and 920?
A: Samples of 910c will be available in the first half of next year and will be available in the second half of the year. The earliest samples of the 920 will be in the second half of next year, and the delivery time will be later.
Q: What is the shipment volume of 910b this year? What are the expectations for next year?
A: This year, 910b is expected to ship more than 50,000 pieces. Next year it is expected to achieve an output of 200,000 pieces.
Q: What is the production capacity planning of 910b? What proportion of the 200,000-piece production capacity accounts for the entire production capacity?
A: The specific capacity planning and overall capacity utilization are unclear. However, the production capacity of 910b can be guaranteed, which should be able to reach 10,000 pieces a month and support the demand for tens of millions of chips.
Q: What is the product rate of 910c? What is the server architecture like?
A: The product rate should currently be around 50%. The current AI server architecture has eight accelerator cards, involving the use of four insect CPUs and optical modules.
Q: What is the optical module corresponding to the latest 920d?
A: Jiuyang Agent is currently a 200g accelerator card. There may be 200g and 400g optional forms in the future. The 200g one is enough to meet the needs of many scenarios.
Q: Who are the current main customers of the server?
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Q: In which industries can Shengteng be most widely used?
A: Shengteng is widely used in the Internet industry, operator industry and government industry. The Internet industry accounts for nearly 80% of the share, among which large and medium-sized Internet manufacturers such as iFlytek and Meituan are important users of Shengteng. The operator industry also has certain demand, including China Mobile, China Telecom, China Unicom, etc., which all have computing centers using Ascend chips. In the government industry, computing centers and resource centers of local governments and public utility departments are also important users of Shengteng, accounting for nearly 15% of the market share. In addition, there are also some third-party strategic renewal, finance, education, scientific research and other industries that also have application needs for Shengteng.
Q: Which large players in the Internet industry mainly use Ascend chips?
A: In the Internet industry, Ascend chips are mainly used by large players, such as iFlytek, Meitu, Tsinghua University, etc. Among them, iFlytek has become an important partner, and their demand is large and will definitely expand in the future. At the same time, some well-known companies such as Alibaba's Ant Financial, Baidu, Tencent, etc. have also adopted Shengteng chips.
Q: In the industry chain, how does Shengteng and other players carry out division of labor and cooperation?
A: In the Shengteng industry chain, there are many cooperations, especially in the hierarchical ecology. Partners throughout the industry chain will join forces to promote product development and marketing. Ascend Chip has a rich ecosystem, so partners can enjoy the flexibility, convenience and convenience of technology development. At the same time, the overall cost will also take into account the low cost brought by the rich ecosystem.
Q: Who are the major players in the Shengteng industry chain currently, and what is their shipment share?
A: The current major players in the Shengteng industry chain include Huawei, Baode Yangtze Computing, Zhangjiang Insects, Shenma, Tsinghua Tongfang, Xinhuashan, and Kunlun of the Netherlands. Among them, Huawei's own shipments accounted for 30%, and hardware partners' shipments accounted for 70%. Among them, Huagong Cinema's shipments accounted for a little more than 20%, Henan Kunlun accounted for about 10%, Baode was close to 61 inches, Shenma has 3 and 4 Worlds, as well as Tang Yan, Discrete Tongfang, and Jiangjian Insects , China Xinhuashan and Huanghe 3G People, etc., their shipments are relatively small. Overall, the Shengteng industry chain maintains an overall ecology, with each group playing a role.
Q: What is the difference between Kunpeng and ecological partners in the Shengteng industry chain?
A: Kunpeng is also an ecological partner with levels. It is mainly an ecological partner for complete machines, including some servers, PCs and other products. A considerable number of Kunpeng's ecological partners are also building servers, because the server's CPU uses Kunpeng's chips. Therefore, it can be said that Kunpeng’s level partners and ecological partners have a certain overlap.
Q: What is the production situation of Shengteng?
A: Kunpeng's shipment volume last year was close to 300,000 units, and this year we strive to reach 400,000 units throughout the year. The target will have certain challenges because the overall market situation this year is not very good. However, the purchase volume of industries such as operators and finance is relatively large, and the purchase volume of some industries has increased. The goal for next year is to strive for growth of more than 500,000 units. It is expected that the domestic server production in the Chinese market next year will be close to more than 700,000 to 800,000 units. Huawei should be able to account for about 70% of this market share.
Q: What are your expectations for next year?
A: Kunpeng’s goal next year is to grow more than 500,000 remaining units, which can basically account for more than half of the domestic server share. It is expected that the domestic server production in the Chinese market will be close to more than 700,000 to 800,000 units next year, and Huawei may be able to reach 700,000 units, equivalent to about 70% of the market.
Q: Do you understand that the main customers here are domestic operators? This year, it seems that the proportion of government may decline, but the proportion of finance and finance will increase significantly. Operators may also experience a slight decline in micro-frequency and interest rates, but the total volume should still grow.
A: According to last year’s situation, operators are the largest customers, accounting for one-third of the demand in the industry chain. Government procurement is incomplete, while the proportion of finance has increased. The share of government may decline this year, but the share of finance will rise significantly. Operators' demand may decline slightly, but the total volume should still grow.
Q: Who are the switch industry chain partners on the switching chain?
A: The switch partners are mainly foundry manufacturers to circumvent US sanctions. Huarong Communications is one of the larger OEMs. They help us purchase relevant chips to produce switches. There are also other partners, such as Phoenix, Suningcos, etc., who are also our OEM manufacturers and manufacture low-end and mid-range switch products.