SHANGHAI, July 26 (Reuters) - China's Huawei

Technologies showed off an AI computing system on Saturday that

one industry expert has said rivals Nvidia's ( NVDA ) most advanced

offering, as the Chinese technology giant seeks to capture

market share in the country's growing artificial intelligence

sector.

The CloudMatrix 384 system made its first public debut at

the World Artificial Intelligence Conference (WAIC), a three-day

event in Shanghai where companies showcase their latest AI

innovations, drawing a large crowd to the company's booth.

The system has drawn close attention from the global AI

community since Huawei first announced it in April.

Industry analysts view it as a direct competitor to Nvidia's ( NVDA )

GB200 NVL72, the U.S. chipmaker's most advanced

system-level product currently available in the market.

Dylan Patel, founder of semiconductor research group

SemiAnalysis, said in an April article that Huawei now had AI

system capabilities that could beat Nvidia ( NVDA ).

Huawei staff at its WAIC booth declined to comment when

asked to introduce the CloudMatrix 384 system. A spokesperson

for Huawei did not respond to questions.

Huawei has become widely regarded as China's most promising

domestic supplier of chips essential for AI development, even

though the company faces U.S. export restrictions. Nvidia ( NVDA ) CEO

Jensen Huang told Bloomberg in May that Huawei had been "moving

quite fast" and named the CloudMatrix as an example.

The CloudMatrix 384 incorporates 384 of Huawei's latest 910C

chips and outperforms Nvidia's ( NVDA ) GB200 NVL72 on some metrics,

which uses 72 B200 chips, according to SemiAnalysis.

The performance stems from Huawei's system design

capabilities, which compensate for weaker individual chip

performance through the use of more chips and system-level

innovations, SemiAnalysis said.

Huawei says the system uses "supernode" architecture that

allows the chips to interconnect at super-high speeds and in

June, Huawei Cloud CEO Zhang Pingan said the CloudMatrix 384

system was operational on Huawei's cloud platform.