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Sep 18, 2026
IrisHOST
Now it's the closest power plant.
IrisHOST
Huawei says its Ascend 960DT chip arrives in the first quarter of 2027, two quarters earlier than planned.
IrisHOST
The catch? The big cluster system it announced uses 4,096 chips.
IrisHOST
The earlier plan called for 15,488.
Willie KingHOST
Moving on, Huawei Technologies is accelerating the debut of its next-generation artificial intelligence chip in 2027, as it aims to replace Nvidia in China and compete on the global stage.
Willie KingHOST
The company's flagship Ascend 960DT chip, originally set for commercial launch in late 2027, will now be launched in the first quarter.
Willie KingHOST
Meanwhile, another variant of the new series known as the 960PR will be delivered in the third quarter of 2027.
Willie KingHOST
Huawei's roadmap suggests the Chinese networking and chip leader is gaining confidence in advancing an ambitious three-year strategy for developing semiconductors to eventually replace Nvidia.
Willie KingHOST
The Shenzhen-based company says its adaptations and networking can make up for the shortcomings in single-chip performance relative to the likes of Nvidia.
Willie KingHOST
Already, Huawei has been making inroads in both the domestic and global markets.
Willie KingHOST
DeepSeek is planning to deploy at least 160,000 Huawei Ascend 950DT chips at a data center it is building in Inner Mongolia to operate its models.
Willie KingHOST
According to Bloomberg News, the company is also exploring foreign markets including Malaysia and Egypt.
speaker_3ADVERTISER
said, we will continue to follow this space closely.
TonyHOST
Next up, Chinese tech giant Huawei is preparing to unveil its next generation Ascend 960 artificial intelligence chip, advancing China's efforts to reduce its dependence on American technology despite tightening U.S. export controls.
TonyHOST
Rotating chairman Wang Tao will present the new processor at Huawei's annual summit in Shanghai.
TonyHOST
The Ascend 960 is expected to become commercially available in 2027, followed by the Ascend 970 in 2028.
TonyHOST
Huawei says each generation will offer twice the computing power of its predecessor.
TonyHOST
A critical question is whether the Ascend 960 will be powerful enough to train frontier AI models.
TonyHOST
Chinese developers still rely heavily on Nvidia chips for training their most advanced systems, although domestic processors are increasingly used to operate completed models huawei is already gaining ground deep seek reportedly plans to install at least 160 000 to send 950 dt chips at a new inner mongolia data center we know inner mongolia is a province of china it is not part of the sovereign country mongolia that lies to the north The company is also exploring opportunities in Malaysia and Egypt as China promotes its technology infrastructure internationally.
TonyHOST
However, Huawei continues to face production constraints and limited access to advanced foreign manufacturing equipment and high-performance memory.
Etienne NewmanHOST
Huawei just made a highly aggressive announcement in Shanghai at Huawei Connect 2026.
Etienne NewmanHOST
They are fast-tracking their next-generation AI training chip, the Ascend 960DT, to early 2027.
Etienne NewmanHOST
That is nine months ahead of their original schedule.
speaker_1HOST
Nine months is huge.
MarcusHOST
And same morning, hardware prices.
MarcusHOST
Huawei raised the Ascend 950DT to 250,000 yuan, a 20 to 50% increase from quotes given just two months ago.
MarcusHOST
Two months.
MarcusHOST
Cambercon's next-gen chips up 20 to 30%, also citing HBM shortages.
CassidyHOST
Here's TechNode.
speaker_2NARRATOR
DeepSeek plans to deploy at least 160,000 Huawei Ascend 950DT accelerators at a data center it is building in Inner Mongolia, according to people familiar with the matter.
speaker_2NARRATOR
The proposed installation would be among the largest known clusters of Huawei AI chips, although its deployment schedule depends on the chipmaker's production capacity.
CassidyHOST
We covered ByteDance's build-out, but DeepSeek has a much more concrete reported plan.
CassidyHOST
160,000 Huawei Ascend 950DTs in Inner Mongolia.
CassidyHOST
Plans to deploy matters here.
BillHOST
Bloomberg says the schedule depends on Huawei's production capacity, so capital clearly isn't the bottleneck.
speaker_1NARRATOR
Malaysia is seriously evaluating Huawei artificial intelligence chips for its national sovereign AI program, according to a Bloomberg report published Monday.
speaker_1NARRATOR
The initiative carries a budget of roughly 2 billion ringgit, and officials are weighing Huawei's Ascend accelerators despite explicit warnings from the United States about using Chinese hardware.
speaker_1NARRATOR
Nothing has been finalized, and Malaysia has previously distanced itself from an earlier Huawei chip project after Washington objected.
speaker_1NARRATOR
The calculation is a familiar one for middle powers.
Kyungjin KimHOST
Okay, so if the hardware is everywhere, where is the actual processing happening?
speaker_1UNKNOWN
Increasingly, entirely within China, DeepSeek, a major Chinese AI player, just ordered 160,000 Huawei Ascend 950DT chips.
Kyungjin KimHOST
That is a massive amount of silicon.
speaker_1UNKNOWN
It is.
EliHOST
The model ranked first by usage in the last week, on the global open router platform.
EliHOST
Z.AI is likely using Huawei Ascend along with other chip suppliers and Counterpoint senior research analyst Ivan Lam.
EliHOST
He noted more companies in China are working closely together for deeper collaboration across hardware and software.
EliHOST
Quote, Chinese AI model developers have continued to allocate more resources investment toward AI servers and computing infrastructure built on domestic chips, he said.
speaker_2HOST
NVIDIA's latest Blackwell Ultra GB300 chip delivers roughly 15 petaflops of performance.
speaker_2HOST
China's best domestic chip, the Huawei Ascend 950PR, manages only 1.56 petaflops.
speaker_2HOST
It has a 10x raw performance gap.
speaker_1HOST
But the report emphasizes that the performance gap isn't even China's biggest bottleneck.
speaker_2HOST
As a result, NVIDIA's yield on their advanced chips...
speaker_2HOST
the percentage of perfectly usable chips that come off the wafer, is around 60 to 80 percent.
speaker_2HOST
And China's? Huawei's yield on their Ascend chips, manufactured by SMEC, is a dismal 5 to 20 percent.
speaker_1HOST
So 80 to 95 percent of the highly expensive chips they manufacture go straight into the garbage because of manufacturing defects.
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