Chinese tech giant Huawei has released brand new computing power supernode and cluster products, aiming to combine more artificial intelligence (AI) chips together to boost computing power, thereby challenging U.S. chip giant Nvidia's technology and claiming it can remain the “world's most powerful” for years to come.
According to Bloomberg, Yicai, and other foreign media reports, on the 18th, Huawei launched its latest two supernode products, “Atlas 950 SuperPoD” and “Atlas 960 SuperPoD,” stating that these products fully lead in key metrics such as number of cards, total computing power, memory capacity, and interconnection bandwidth, and will remain the “world's most powerful computing supernodes” for years to come.
Huawei Vice Chairman and Rotating Chairman Xu Zhijun said at the Huawei Connect conference on Thursday that Huawei's supernode computing power solution is built using Chinese-available chip manufacturing processes. The Atlas 950 SuperPoD and Atlas 960 SuperPoD supernodes will support 8,192 and 15,488 Ascend cards, respectively.
Xu Zhijun stated that over the next three years, Huawei has planned multiple Ascend chips, including the 950PR, 950DT, as well as Ascend 960 and 970, with the 950PR to be launched in the first quarter of next year.
Huawei also rolled out the “Atlas 950 SuperCluster” and “Atlas 960 SuperCluster,” which are ultra-large-scale computing power solutions formed by clustering the supernodes. Huawei claims that the computing power scale of the two clusters exceeds 500,000 cards and reaches one million cards, “making them genuinely the world's most powerful computing power clusters.”
Xu Zhijun also said on Thursday: “Because of U.S. sanctions, we can't produce chips at TSMC. The computing power of our single chip still lags behind Nvidia. But Huawei has over 30 years of experience in connecting people and machines, so we have invested heavily in connection technologies and achieved breakthroughs, allowing us to build supernodes with tens of thousands of cards, so that we can continue to achieve the strongest computing power in the world.”
According to reports, the supernode Atlas 950 SuperPoD will be launched in the fourth quarter of this year, and the Atlas 960 SuperPoD will be launched in the fourth quarter of 2027.