The chip, dubbed Ascend 910D, will be Huawei's most powerful AI processor to date according to a report from the Wall Street Journal.

SINGAPORE—Huawei Technologies is gearing up to test its newest and most powerful artificial-intelligence processor, which the company hopes could replace some higher-end products of U.S. chip giant Nvidia.

The report states that Huawei has recently approached several Chinese technology companies to test the technical capabilities of the new processor. Huawei hopes the Ascend 910D will outperform Nvidia’s high-end H100 AI chip, which is widely considered a benchmark for training sophisticated machine learning models.