Huawei plans to launch the Ascend 960DT AI chip in Q1 2027 and the 960PR in Q3 2027, and says its UnifiedBus tech is key to its next-generation large AI systems (Reuters)
ThinkingNews Desk · how this was written
Huawei plans to launch its new Ascend 960DT AI chip in the first quarter of 2027, followed by the 960PR in the third quarter of the same year. The company says its UnifiedBus technology will be central to next-generation large AI systems, positioning the chips as a direct competitor to Nvidia’s offerings.
Written from all 3 reports below, not from any single one.
How it was reported
- TechMeme·Huawei plans to launch the Ascend 960DT AI chip in Q1 2027 and the 960PR in Q3 2027, and says its UnifiedBus tech is key to its next-generation large AI systems (Reuters)
- TechCrunch·Huawei plans Q1 2027 launch of new AI chip as it takes on Nvidia
- The Next Web·Huawei’s answer to Nvidia isn’t a faster chip, it’s a much bigger machine
Huawei announced the Ascend 960DT AI processor, scheduled for Q1 2027, and the Atlas 960E SuperPoD, a 4,096-NPU pod delivering 8 EFLOPS at FP8 and 1 PB of HBM. The Hi-ONE optical engine cuts power by 550 kW and raises availability to 99.8%. UnifiedBus merges ten protocols, providing terabyte-scale bandwidth and 2 μs latency. CANN SDK now supports over 90 open-source projects and serves as an official PyTorch backend.
Related stories
- Nvidia and AI chip startup d-Matrix are combining their hardware in a new system to power AI models, the latest example of Nvidia partnering with rivals (Phoebe Liu/The Information)3 outlets
- Build for the new AI era with Microsoft and NVIDIA3 outlets
- Nvidia announces the Nemotron Coalition, which includes Thinking Machines Lab, Cursor, and Mistral and will develop an open model trained on Nvidia DGX Cloud (Sebastian Moss/DatacenterDynamics)5 outlets
- Mira Murati's Thinking Machines Lab signs a chip supply deal with Nvidia worth tens of billions of dollars, planning to deploy 1GW+ of next-gen Vera Rubin chips (Financial Times)3 outlets