Chinese AI Models Adopt Huawei MXFP4 Architecture, Raising NVIDIA Concerns
The K3 model adopts MXFP4 quantization for Huawei Ascend 950 accelerators.
Entities: Huawei, NVIDIA
A small conversation on X is zeroing in on a technical claim with bigger market implications: @dhtikna argued that Chinese models could end up specializing for Huawei hardware, citing a model quantized to MXFP4 rather than Nvidia's NVFP4, while @zephyr_z9 summed it up as evidence that "they built it to serve on Huawei 950s." That does not independently prove the hardware target, but it shows why some posters on X are framing this as a bearish signal for Nvidia in China.
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@dhtikna @syl_52 @zephyr_z9 @amasad If it isn’t, that person shouldn’t be investing in this sector
@syl_52 @dhtikna @zephyr_z9 @amasad 不会真有人觉得英伟达真的在中国市场 0 份额吧?不会有这么蠢的人吧?
@dhtikna @syl_52 @zephyr_z9 @amasad no it's not a good question LOL