Huawei's AI chips fill Nvidia-sized hole in medical research in Hong Kong

A Hong Kong-based artificial intelligence (AI) research centre under the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), the mainland's national research institute, said that it has advanced its medical AI models with the help of Huawei Technologies' Ascend processors, as China's scientific research community adapts to US sanctions that have restricted access to high-end Nvidia chips. The Centre for Artificial Intelligence and Robotics (CAIR), which the CAS established in Hong Kong in 2019, on Friday launche