There you have it. Huawei just announced $12 billion in AI chip revenue for 2026. Up 60% from $7.…
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There you have it. Huawei just announced $12 billion in AI chip revenue for 2026. Up 60% from $7.5 billion last year.
The Ascend 950PR is now in mass production. 750,000 units shipping this year. ByteDance alone committed $5.6 billion in orders. Alibaba and Tencent are lining up behind them.
Now read the next sentence carefully.
The 950PR is CUDA-compatible. That means every Chinese company running NVIDIA code can migrate to Huawei hardware without rewriting a single line. The one moat NVIDIA had left in China — software lock-in — is gone.
This chip delivers 2.8x the performance of NVIDIA's H20 on inference workloads. 1.56 petaflops. 112GB of high-bandwidth memory. $16,000 per unit. It is not a budget knockoff. It is a direct enterprise competitor.
And here is the part that should terrify Washington.
We did this to ourselves.
In 2022, the U.S. slapped export controls on advanced AI chips to China. The goal was to cripple their AI ambitions. Starve them of compute. Keep them a generation behind.
Instead, we handed Huawei the entire Chinese AI market on a silver platter.
Before export controls, Chinese companies were buying NVIDIA. Hundreds of thousands of H100s. Billions in revenue flowing to an American company. NVIDIA owned China's AI infrastructure.
After export controls? Beijing told every Chinese tech giant to go domestic. Huawei built its own chips. Its own memory. Its own CUDA-compatible software stack. Its own fabrication plants.
Huawei went from sanctioned underdog to China's dominant AI chipmaker in three years.
The ITIF — a Washington think tank — literally published a report titled "Backfire: Export Controls Helped Huawei and Hurt U.S. Firms." You cannot make a clearer headline than that.
NVIDIA lost billions in China revenue. Huawei gained it. China's AI chip market is projected to hit $67 billion by 2030. Huawei is positioned to own 60% of it.
This is not a tech story. This is a national security and economic catastrophe.
We did not slow China down. We accelerated their independence from American technology. Every dollar Huawei earns on AI chips is a dollar that funds their military AI, their surveillance state, their autonomous weapons programs.
Export controls without a strategy are not a weapon. They are a gift to your adversary.
Time to wake up.
LIVE Monday May 5 at 1PM ET — Episode 2: "Inside My AI Kingdom." I am pulling back the curtain on my full AI infrastructure — 13 autonomous agents running 24/7.
LinkedIn: https://lnkd.in/eZNmtQNW
What are your thoughts?
The Ascend 950PR is now in mass production. 750,000 units shipping this year. ByteDance alone committed $5.6 billion in orders. Alibaba and Tencent are lining up behind them.
Now read the next sentence carefully.
The 950PR is CUDA-compatible. That means every Chinese company running NVIDIA code can migrate to Huawei hardware without rewriting a single line. The one moat NVIDIA had left in China — software lock-in — is gone.
This chip delivers 2.8x the performance of NVIDIA's H20 on inference workloads. 1.56 petaflops. 112GB of high-bandwidth memory. $16,000 per unit. It is not a budget knockoff. It is a direct enterprise competitor.
And here is the part that should terrify Washington.
We did this to ourselves.
In 2022, the U.S. slapped export controls on advanced AI chips to China. The goal was to cripple their AI ambitions. Starve them of compute. Keep them a generation behind.
Instead, we handed Huawei the entire Chinese AI market on a silver platter.
Before export controls, Chinese companies were buying NVIDIA. Hundreds of thousands of H100s. Billions in revenue flowing to an American company. NVIDIA owned China's AI infrastructure.
After export controls? Beijing told every Chinese tech giant to go domestic. Huawei built its own chips. Its own memory. Its own CUDA-compatible software stack. Its own fabrication plants.
Huawei went from sanctioned underdog to China's dominant AI chipmaker in three years.
The ITIF — a Washington think tank — literally published a report titled "Backfire: Export Controls Helped Huawei and Hurt U.S. Firms." You cannot make a clearer headline than that.
NVIDIA lost billions in China revenue. Huawei gained it. China's AI chip market is projected to hit $67 billion by 2030. Huawei is positioned to own 60% of it.
This is not a tech story. This is a national security and economic catastrophe.
We did not slow China down. We accelerated their independence from American technology. Every dollar Huawei earns on AI chips is a dollar that funds their military AI, their surveillance state, their autonomous weapons programs.
Export controls without a strategy are not a weapon. They are a gift to your adversary.
Time to wake up.
LIVE Monday May 5 at 1PM ET — Episode 2: "Inside My AI Kingdom." I am pulling back the curtain on my full AI infrastructure — 13 autonomous agents running 24/7.
LinkedIn: https://lnkd.in/eZNmtQNW
What are your thoughts?