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.