Huawei CEO Ren Zhengfei has spoken publicly for the first time about the company's efforts to create competitive processors. He said Huawei is currently one generation behind US companies, but is making up for it with cluster computing, new materials and theoretical research. Reuters reports.
Zhengfei said that the US restrictions are not critical, as the company uses "mathematics instead of physics" and is looking for an alternative to Moore's Law - the empirical principle according to which the number of transistors on a chip doubles approximately every two years, ensuring a steady increase in performance.
He also noted that Huawei spends 180 billion yuan (about $25.06 billion) on research annually, with a third of this amount going to fundamental research.
"Without theory, there will be no breakthroughs, and we will not catch up with the United States," Zhengfei said.
Huawei has already introduced the CloudMatrix 384 system based on 384 Ascend 910C chips. According to some estimates, it is able to bypass the NVIDIA GB200 NVL72 system, which is banned from being shipped to China.
Ren Zhengfei made his comments amid another round of trade talks between the US and China, which are also discussing restrictions on technology exports.
As a reminder, it was recently reported that Huawei is creating its own production line for true 5nm chips without using EUV lithography. In addition, the company is already conducting research and development work on 3nm chips, the production of which is planned to begin in 2026.