During the 2026 Huawei Connect, Xu Zhijun and Huawei semiconductor chief scientist Liao Heng reviewed Ascend chip progress (Ascend 950 launched, Atlas 950 supernode in delivery, 256,000-card cluster being deployed, Atlas 960 in testing) and introduced the Peerium computing architecture, the UnifiedBus interconnect, and the Ascend 960 supernode, described as the world's first NPO-based supernode.
At Huawei Connect 2026, Huawei Rotating Chairman Wang Tao announced that the Ascend 960 chip is ready ahead of schedule with doubled performance, with the 960DT launching in Q1 2027 and the 960PR in Q3 2027, followed by annual releases of Ascend 970 in 2028 and Ascend 980 in 2029.
<body><div>Huawei open-sources 92B-parameter Pangu model (openPangu-2.0-Flash) with weights, inference code, and training operators. It offers native training and inferenc</div></body>