"Computing power was, is, and will continue to be the key to artificial intelligence (AI), and it is even more critical to China's AI development," Xu Zhijun, Rotating Chairman of Huawei, stated clearly and firmly at the recently held Huawei Connect 2025. On the same occasion, he unveiled a series of new products that are either soon to be launched or under planning.
In terms of Ascend chips, Huawei has planned three product series for the next three years: Ascend 950PR/Ascend 950DT, Ascend 960, and Ascend 970. These series are scheduled to be launched in the first quarter of 2026, the fourth quarter of 2026, the fourth quarter of 2027, and the fourth quarter of 2028 respectively. Following the pace of doubling computing power every year, these chips will continue to evolve toward greater ease of use, support for more data types, and higher bandwidth, so as to continuously meet the ever-growing demand for AI computing power.
Super nodes are rapidly becoming the new normal in AI infrastructure construction. Based on the Atlas 900 A3 SuperPoD (CloudMatrix 384 Super Node), Huawei will also launch the Atlas 950 SuperPoD and Atlas 960 SuperPoD, which are expected to hit the market in the fourth quarter of 2027 and the fourth quarter of 2028 respectively.
In the general-purpose computing field, Huawei has planned the Kunpeng 950 and Kunpeng 960, set to be launched in the fourth quarter of 2026 and the first quarter of 2028 respectively. These products will keep evolving to support super nodes, feature more cores, and deliver higher performance. Additionally, Huawei has rolled out the world's first general-purpose computing super node, which supports a maximum of 16 nodes, has a maximum memory of 48TB, and enables memory/SSD/DPU pooling. This super node is slated for launch in the first quarter of 2026.
Large-scale super nodes pose significant challenges to interconnection technologies. The new Lingqu interconnection protocol pioneered by Huawei supports the 10,000-card super node architecture, allowing it to operate like a single computer. The technical specifications of Lingqu 2.0 have now been opened up; industry players can develop relevant products and components based on these specifications to jointly build the Lingqu ecosystem. Meanwhile, Huawei is developing new large-scale super node products such as the Atlas 950 SuperCluster.