Huawei

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Chinese AI firm DeepSeek has released its latest large language model, DeepSeek-V3.2-Exp, with first-day optimizations for Huawei’s Ascend hardware and CANN software stack.

Huawei has outlined its roadmap for Zettascale AI systems that will rely on hundreds of thousands and then millions of AI accelerators.

Speaking at the Huawei Connect conference on September 18, rotating chairman Xu Zhijun outlined the company’s first official long-range Ascend chip strategy.

28nm today, 7nm tomorrow?

Millions of China-made AI accelerators are incoming from multiple companies in 2025 - 2026, but they may not be enough to meet the performance demands of local AI companies.

Huawei unveiled UB-Mesh at Hot Chips 2025 as an open protocol to unify AI datacenter interconnects, enabling million-processor SuperNodes with lower latency, cost, and higher reliability.

Despite U.S. sanctions, Huawei's Kirin 9020 is built by SMIC on a 7nm-class process and integrates a fully in-house 5G modem supported by a domestic FEM.

DeepSeek’s bid to train R2 on Huawei’s Ascend chips failed due to technical limits, forcing a return to Nvidia GPUs and delaying the launch.