Still, Jensen Huang says his company’s technology remains a generation ahead of those developed by Chinese rivals

Ren, however, added that using methods like “stacking and clustering [on Ascend-powered machines], the computing results are comparable” to the most advanced systems in the world.

“AI is a parallel problem, so if each one of the computers are not capable … just add more computers,” Huang said in response to a question about Ren’s comments. “What he’s saying is that in China, [where] they have plenty of energy, they’ll just use more chips.”