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Friday 18 September 2026
Huawei Connect 2026: Huawei scales supernodes into million-card AI systems

Huawei is extending its AI infrastructure strategy beyond individual accelerators and storage systems, unveiling an Agentic supercluster...

Thursday 17 September 2026
Huawei Connect 2026: Ascend 960 puts industry-first NPO supernode at heart of Huawei's AI scale-up bet
Huawei has unveiled its next-generation Ascend 960 supernode, positioning near-packaged optics (NPO) at the centre of its effort to scale AI computing beyond the limits of individual...
Thursday 10 September 2026
China's Nvidia rivals raise prices as HBM shortage bites
Chinese chipmakers challenging Nvidia are sharply raising prices for current and next-generation accelerators as high-bandwidth memory (HBM) becomes scarcer and more expensive, adding...
Tuesday 8 September 2026
Malaysia weighs Huawei Ascend 910C for MYR2 billion sovereign AI cloud
Malaysia is evaluating Huawei Technologies' Ascend 910C accelerators as the compute backbone of its MYR2 billion (US$494 million) sovereign AI initiative, which is designed to keep...
Monday 7 September 2026
DeepSeek plans to buy 160,000 Huawei chips as China aims to wean itself off Nvidia
DeepSeek is reportedly planning to purchase 160,000 Huawei chips for its large 1 GW data center currently under construction in the Chinese province of Inner Mongolia. This would make...
Thursday 3 September 2026
China packaging specialist SJSemi reaches 3.3-reticle 2.5D scale for AI, HBM integration
Chinese advanced packaging provider SJ Semiconductor (SJSemi) has expanded its silicon-interposer-based 2.5D packaging platform to 3.3 times the standard reticle size, enabling denser...
Tuesday 1 September 2026
Huawei's revenue climbs 9.6%, but AI, chips and HarmonyOS exact heavier R&D toll
Huawei Technologies increased first-half revenue in 2026 while profit fell sharply, highlighting the growing cost of its effort to build a self-sufficient technology stack spanning...
Friday 28 August 2026
Huawei's Ascend 910C sold out in China, but Nvidia's H200 supply gap persists
Huawei's Ascend 910C is already sold out in China, but domestic chips still cannot fully replace Nvidia's H200s. The shortage matters beyond China because AI compute constraints, pricing,...
Wednesday 5 August 2026
Huawei's 18-tier pagoda challenges Nvidia's chip-scaling playbook

Huawei is arguing that the next phase of semiconductor performance will depend less on transistor shrinkage and more on system architecture,...

Wednesday 29 July 2026
Moonshot AI's Kimi K3 secures Day 0 support from Alibaba Cloud, Huawei Ascend

China's two major AI computing ecosystems moved quickly to support Kimi K3 after Moonshot AI released the large language model as open...

Friday 24 July 2026
China's AI chip share tops 50%, but Nvidia still rules frontier training

China's AI infrastructure build-out is rapidly lifting demand for domestic accelerators, giving Huawei, Alibaba's T-Head Semiconductor,...

Wednesday 15 July 2026
Huawei to unveil largest Ascend SuperPoD at Xi-opened WAIC , scaling China's AI infrastructure

Huawei will publicly display its Atlas 950 SuperPoD AI computing system for the first time at the 2026 World Artificial Intelligence...

Wednesday 8 July 2026
Meituan open-sources LongCat-2.0 as China's domestic AI stack gains momentum

Meituan has open-sourced LongCat-2.0, a trillion-parameter AI model trained and deployed entirely on Chinese computing infrastructure,...

Monday 6 July 2026
Huawei chip chief proposes Tau Law V2 centered on time-based scaling
Huawei's semiconductor chief is promoting a post-Moore roadmap that shifts industry focus from shrinking transistors to reducing time across the computing stack, a framework backed...