At the Ascend Artificial Intelligence Ecosystem Conference held at the Shenzhen Convention and Exhibition Center, Engineer Zhang paced back and forth at the registration desk with his reservation code—his automotive company has been waiting for three months to obtain a testing quota for the Ascend 910B chip. “It’s not that we don’t want to buy … Read more
By | Nandu Reporter Cheng Yang On September 18 at the Huawei Connect Conference, Huawei’s Vice Chairman and Rotating Chairman Xu Zhijun revealed that over the next three years, Huawei has planned multiple Ascend chips, including the 950PR, 950DT, 960, and 970 chips. Among them, the Ascend 950PR will be launched in the first quarter … Read more
On August 14, 2025, the Financial Times reported that DeepSeek encountered persistent technical issues while training the R2 using Ascend chips, prompting a switch to NVIDIA chips for training, and using Huawei chips for inference.These issues are the main reason for the postponement of the model’s release date from May.Training is the process of optimizing … Read more
“ The U.S. blockade on chip exports to China has made NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang anxious, as he is well aware of the current level of domestic computing power in China. Recently, Huawei launched the AI computing cluster solution CloudMatrix 384, which may seem similar to others at first glance, but a closer analysis reveals … Read more