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Thursday 1 October 2026

Ascend now ahead of Nvidia in China, with domestic supply driving AI chip substitution, says Huawei chairman

Huawei rotating chairman Eric Xu said the company's Ascend AI accelerators have surpassed Nvidia in both sales and market share in China, highlighting how US export controls on advanced...

Wednesday 30 September 2026

DeepSeek brings software tools to Huawei's Ascend 950 to take on Nvidia

DeepSeek is bringing more of the software used to develop its AI models to Huawei Technologies' Ascend 950 processors, deepening cooperation as Chinese technology companies seek to...

Thursday 24 September 2026

Alibaba Zhenwu V900 joins Huawei Ascend 960 in race to fill Nvidia's China AI compute gap

Alibaba has formally unveiled its self-developed Zhenwu V900 AI chip at the 2026 Apsara Conference, with CEO Eddie Wu describing the T-Head Semiconductor-designed processor as "China's...

Thursday 24 September 2026

Trump-Xi pre-summit watch: H20 setbacks and Ascend gains reshape China's Nvidia calculus

Ahead of the Trump-Xi summit, the key semiconductor question is no longer simply how much Nvidia hardware Washington will allow China to buy.

Wednesday 23 September 2026

Ascend 950 clears higher security bar in China's latest chip assessment: who else qualified?

China has tightened the security and reliability framework around its domestic computing stack, with the latest official evaluation placing Huawei's Ascend 950 at Level II and Kunlunxin's...

Tuesday 22 September 2026

DeepSeek bets on Huawei chips for model training as Nvidia's China sales slip

DeepSeek CEO Liang Wenfeng said during a call with investors that he aims to rely on Huawei chips to train the startup's models in the...

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,...

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