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DeepSeek Claims China Will Phase Out NVIDIA in One Year with Huawei Ascend 950 and Self-Developed Tile Language
DeepSeek founder claims China will phase out NVIDIA within a year, with Huawei Ascend 950 SuperPod matching GB200/GB300 performance. DeepSeek is developing its own inference chips and Tile Language to reduce CUDA dependency, marking a critical shift from import substitution to an independent AI compute ecosystem.
HPE Expands Private Cloud AI with NVIDIA Vera Rubin, Enabling Agent-Native AI Factory
HPE expands its Private Cloud AI line with NVIDIA Vera Rubin NVL72 and HGX Rubin NVL8, introducing Compute XD700, Cray GX240 blade with Vera CPU, and Quantum-X800 InfiniBand. New software includes Agent Toolkit and NemoClaw for agent-native AI, with Alletra Storage MP X10000 in Q4 2026.
Huawei unveils Atlas 950 SuperPoD: 1024-card memory-coherent AI supernode
Huawei unveiled the Atlas 950 SuperPoD at WAIC 2026, powered by the 950DT chip, supporting 1024 interconnected cards with 256TB unified memory addressing. Designed for trillion-parameter model training and Agentic AI inference, it marks a shift from chip-level stacking to system-level unified architecture.
Huawei Atlas 950 SuperPoD & 灵衢2.0: A Systemic Pivot in China's AI Compute from Chip to Cluster
At WAIC 2026, Huawei publicly demonstrated the Atlas 950 SuperPoD, a 1024-ascend NPU card cluster, and unveiled the 灵衢2.0 high-speed interconnect protocol. This signals a strategic shift in China's AI infrastructure from single-chip to system-level leadership, creating a closed-loop ecosystem that directly challenges NVIDIA's NVL series dominance.
Huawei Ascend 950 SuperPoD: 1024 NPUs with 256TB Unified Memory Redefines AI Compute
Huawei unveiled the Ascend 950 SuperPoD at WAIC 2026, featuring 1024 NPUs per cabinet with 256TB unified memory and 3μs latency. This system-level innovation compensates for process limitations, scaling to 500,000 NPUs for trillion-parameter model training, shifting the compute race from single-chip to system efficiency.
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.