Malaysia weighs Huawei chips for $494 million AI project, a post citing Bloomberg says
The post says state-linked Telekom Malaysia was selected as the project’s key operator, with the priority of keeping sensitive government, military and intelligence data under Malaysian control.
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A September 7 post citing Bloomberg says Malaysia is evaluating Huawei’s Ascend 910C accelerators for a $494 million sovereign AI project, despite explicit U.S. warnings against the hardware. The post identifies state-linked Telekom Malaysia as the selected key operator. It says Huawei already supplies technology for the company’s cloud infrastructure, although its current AI computing service uses Nvidia chips.
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