Huawei is moving up the launch of its next-generation Ascend 960DT AI chip to the first quarter of 2027, as it races to challenge Nvidia, the company said on Thursday at its Huawei Connect conference.
Ascend 960 chips are launching ahead of schedule, doubling performance and advancing year by year, the spokesperson said, adding that David Wang, Huawei’s rotating and acting chair, announced the updated timeline at Huawei Connect on Thursday.
Eric Xu, Huawei’s rotating chair, said in the company’s statement that it is using its new Peerium Computing Architecture to build larger AI computing systems designed for both training and inference.
China tech analyst Rui Ma said on X that Huawei had before said its Atlas 960 SuperPoD would scale to 15,488 Ascend 960 chips, while this week’s announcement referred to a system with 4,096 chips.
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Huawei is moving up the launch of its next-generation Ascend 960DT AI chip to the first quarter of 2027, as it races to challenge Nvidia, the company said on Thursday at its Huawei Connect conference.
The Chinese tech giant had before planned to launch the chip in Q3 of 2027, a Huawei spokesperson told TechCrunch.
Ascend 960 chips are launching ahead of schedule, doubling performance and advancing year by year, the spokesperson said, adding that David Wang, Huawei’s rotating and acting chair, announced the updated timeline at Huawei Connect on Thursday.
The announcement comes just a week before U.S. President Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping are set to meet on September 24 in Washington, DC.
Eric Xu, Huawei’s rotating chair, said in the company’s statement that it is using its new Peerium Computing Architecture to build larger AI computing systems designed for both training and inference.
Huawei’s Atlas 950 SuperPoD and SuperCluster are the first systems based on the architecture.
China tech analyst Rui Ma said on X that Huawei had before said its Atlas 960 SuperPoD would scale to 15,488 Ascend 960 chips, while this week’s announcement referred to a system with 4,096 chips.
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