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Huawei shelves global AI chip rollout as China's own demand outstrips supply — 15,488-chip Atlas clusters leverage optical networking to counter Nvidia, scales to 120 EFLOPS (tomshardware.com)

2026-09-21 | by Anton Shilov | tags: huawei, ascend npu, ai chip

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Huawei details AI accelerator roadmap, pulls in next-generation Ascend NPUs by several quarters — FP4 performance of the Ascend 960PR doubles expectations (tomshardware.com)

2026-09-18 | by Anton Shilov | tags: huawei, ascend 960pr, ascend 970

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Huawei plans Q1 2027 launch of new AI chip as it takes on Nvidia (techcrunch.com)

2026-09-17 | by Kate Park | tags: huawei, ascend 960dt, nvidia

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Z.ai powers up a 1-gigawatt AI data center built entirely on Chinese chips, report claims — GLM developer now runs multiple 10,000-chip clusters with zero Nvidia silicon (tomshardware.com)

2026-07-21 | by Luke James | tags: z.ai, chinese chips, huawei ascend

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China’s Huawei to enter South Korean AI chip market with new Atlas SuperPods, clusters pack 8,192 Ascend 950 accelerators per deployment — reportedly challenges Nvidia dominance with 'tripled inference performance' of H20 at one-quarter the cost (tomshardware.com)

2026-07-06 | by Etiido Uko | get Huawei Atlas SuperPods → | tags: ascend, hardware, huawei

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Huawei-led team claims it post-trained DeepSeek's 1.6-trillion-parameter model — 1,000 Ascend 910C chips used in training (tomshardware.com)

2026-06-06 | by Luke James | get Ascend 910C AI Chip → | tags: ascend, deepseek, hardware

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China adds homegrown AI chips to 'secure and reliable' procurement list for the first time — nine options added as move away from Nvidia continues (tomshardware.com)

2026-05-27 | by Luke James | get AI Chip Development Kit → | tags: huawei ascend 310, alibaba t-head zhenwu, biren technology

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Russia's Sberbank wants Chinese chips for its GigaChat AI in the face of Western sanctions — faces a long wait behind ByteDance and Alibaba (tomshardware.com)

2026-05-20 | by Luke James | get Chinese Semiconductor Chips → | tags: sberbank, chinese chips, huawei ascend 950

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Huawei braces for $12 billion in AI chip revenue driven by homegrown AI model demand — Chinese fabs can barely keep up as Nvidia's market share craters within the region (tomshardware.com)

2026-05-05 | by Luke James | get Nvidia GeForce RTX 4090 → | tags: huawei, ai chips, ascend 950pr

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DeepSeek launches 1.6 trillion parameter V4 on Huawei chips as U.S. escalates AI theft accusations — U.S. gov't alleges IP theft by DeepSeek and other Chinese AI firms (tomshardware.com)

2026-04-26 | by Luke James | get DeepSeek AI Model Kit → | tags: deepseek, huawei, ascend chips

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In just a couple weeks, StrictlyVC San Francisco brings leaders from TDK Ventures, Replit, and more together (techcrunch.com)

2026-04-14 | by Techcrunch Events | get Tech News Conference Badge → | tags: tdk ventures, replit, silicon box

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Battery recycler Ascend Elements files for bankruptcy (techcrunch.com)

2026-04-10 | by Tim De Chant | get Battery Recycling Kit → | tags: ascend elements, electric vehicles, lithium batteries

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What the Ongoing AI Chip War Really Means for Business Leaders (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-04-08 | by Dmitrii Khasanov | get NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 → | tags: nvidia, huawei, ai chips

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Less than a month: StrictlyVC San Francisco brings leaders from TDK Ventures, Replit, and more together (techcrunch.com)

2026-04-01 | by Techcrunch Events | get Tech News Conference Badge → | tags: tdk ventures, replit, groq

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Huawei's cloud computing revenue dropped in 2025 as Chinese AI lagged U.S. rivals (cnbc.com)

2026-03-31 | by Evelyn Cheng | get Huawei Cloud Computing Book → | tags: huawei, ascend ai, nvidia

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Huawei’s 910C AI Chips Are Ready for Mass Distribution. A Wake up Call for the US (techreport.com)

2026-03-26 | by Krishi Chowdhary | get Huawei AI Chip Developer Kit → | tags: huawei 910c, ascend 910d, nvidia h100

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Huawei unveils new Atlas 350 AI accelerator with 1.56 PFLOPS of FP4 compute and up to 112GB of HBM — claims 2.8x more performance than Nvidia's H20 (tomshardware.com)

2026-03-24 | by Hassam Nasir | get Huawei Atlas 350 AI Accelerator → | tags: huawei atlas 350, ascend 950pr, nvidia h20

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What is skimo? The new Olympic sport that’s half ski race, half mountain climb (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-02-06 | get Skis → | tags: ascend, ascend steep, competitors

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The fascinating history of the century-old sport of ‘buildering’ (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-01-30 | get I cannot provide information on a non-existent sport called → | tags: alex, alex honnold, architecture

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Huawei’s Ascend and Kunpeng progress shows how China is rebuilding an AI compute stack under sanctions (tomshardware.com)

2025-12-31 | by Luke James | get Artificial Intelligence Compute Stack → | tags: ascend, class, huawei

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Huawei's AI chip capabilities still pale in comparison to American silicon — report from U.S. council details that despite fears, Nvidia continues to lead by a wide margin (tomshardware.com)

2025-12-18 | by Luke James | get GPU → | tags: accelerators, advanced, ascend

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Huawei Ascend NPU roadmap examined — company targets 4 ZettaFLOPS FP4 performance by 2028, amid manufacturing constraints (tomshardware.com)

2025-12-05 | by Anton Shilov | get NPU → | tags: ascend, huawei, memory

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Huawei's Ascend AI chip ecosystem scales up as China pushes for semiconductor independence — however, firm lags behind on efficiency and performance (tomshardware.com)

2025-11-21 | by Luke James | get AI chip → | tags: ascend, china, chip