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Huawei Ascend 10K-Card Cluster Goes Live, UnifiedBus Protocol Pools All Resources
Huawei launched an Ascend 10,000-card AI cluster in Shaoguan, Guangdong, and showcased the Atlas 950 SuperPoD with its proprietary UnifiedBus interconnect supporting 8,192 NPUs at 16.3 PB/s. Huawei Cloud also entered the Gartner 2026 Cloud AI Infrastructure Leaders quadrant, reinforcing its push for a self-contained AI ecosystem.
Huawei Cloud Launches AICS: Control Plane Shift in the Token Industrialization Era
Huawei Cloud unveils four Agentic Infra products, led by the AICS cluster (100K cards/200 EFLOPS). It integrates NPU-direct CMS memory, CCE VolcanoNext unified scheduling, and AgentSphere security sandbox to create a unified control plane for LLM training and Agent inference, aiming to lock in the full-stack AI infrastructure.
Huawei's Tao Law: LogicFolding Bypasses Lithography, 55% Density Gain on Fixed Node
At ISCAS 2026, Huawei's He Tingbo unveiled the Tao Law, replacing geometric scaling with temporal optimization targeting tau (characteristic time). LogicFolding vertically stacks active layers to shorten critical paths, achieving 55% transistor density increase and 41% energy efficiency gain on a fixed node. Kirin 2026 reaches 3.1GHz; Ascend series will adopt LogicFolding. The roadmap projects equivalent 1.4nm density by 2031, fundamentally challenging Moore's Law's lithography dependency.