On the morning of August 26, Huawei’s Ascend concept stocks collectively staged a “dance party” —Tuowei Information surged to a limit increase, while Runhe Software rose over8%, with Tianyuan Dike, Ruantong Power, and others following closely behind.This scene resembled a rush of elderly customers during a supermarket egg discount. The catalyst igniting this enthusiasm was the significant news released by Huawei regarding Ascend:The CANN architecture will be fully open-sourced by the end of the year!
01 Technical Open Source: Hot Pot Restaurant Suddenly Shares Secret Recipe
If we compareAI chips to hot pot base, then the CANN architecture is Huawei’s “family secret recipe.” This core software layer, which manages the neural system of Ascend chips, will finally unveil the open-source version A2 by the end of 2025. Imagine if Haidilao suddenly made its beef tallow recipe public; the excitement in the tech circle is comparable to the waiting area of a hot pot restaurant at 3 AM.
The open-source strategy can be described as“common prosperity in the tech world”:Huawei not only brings out the base but also prepares all the ingredients — the Mind series application toolchain will be opened simultaneously, allowing developers to customize AI models like DIY spicy hot pot.Even more impressive is the“xPN Pioneer Action,”where Huawei supports partners with five teams from R&D to service, vividly demonstrating a tech version of“the whole village supports your entrepreneurship.”
02 Expanding Social Circles: Tech Giants Form Group Chats
Ascend’s “WeChat group chat” is rapidly adding members.Digital China holds a 5 billion yuan order from China Mobile as an “entrance ticket”, reducing the financial risk response time to10 microseconds, 200 times faster than a blink;Tuowei Information sweeps through smart classrooms with its “Zhaohan” series AI servers, grading 300 exam papers before students finish taking notes;Runhe Software is even more impressive, equipping banks with “AI integrated machines,” where the teller hasn’t finished saying “please enter your password,” the system has already predicted the service you want to process.
Even local governments are coming to “tip with cash”: Shenzhen and other places are giving subsidies of15%-20% to companies purchasing Ascend equipment. The policy’s warm wind has made the industry chain flourish —currently, the Ascend ecosystem has gathered over 60 hardware manufacturers and 2,500 industry partners, incubating over 5,800 solutions, richer than the flavors of instant noodles on supermarket shelves.
03 Transformation of Life: AI Embodiment from Phones to Factories
When you take a night scene photo with your phone, you might be inadvertently utilizing the computing power of the Ascend 310.This “little cannon” delivers 16 TOPS of computing power at an 8W power consumption, allowing even budget phones to run AI photo editing smoothly.Meanwhile, the more powerful Ascend 920, packaged with 900 TFLOPs of computing power using 6nm technology, is capable of simultaneously processing 8K video, 5G signals, and AI algorithms, making it a true “octuple threat” in the chip world.
What truly astonishes factory workers is the practical application: a certain automotive factory uses the Ascend solution for quality inspection of headlights, increasing efficiency by 400%; the WalkerS robot moves shelves and checks seat belts with fluidity, working at a speed equivalent to ten skilled workers; the smart city system is even more exaggerated, “digesting” over a billion video frames daily, more than the navigation routes seen by all delivery drivers in the country.
When Ascend chips enable refrigerators to recommend recipes and servers to become “computing power perpetual motion machines,” we no longer need to envy Jarvis from sci-fi movies. The only concern is: when we next change our phones, will it critique our selfie angles as too masculine? After all, these days, even chips are starting to compete in intelligence.
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