Huawei hails Ascend AI ecosystem in New Year message as Atlas 900 supernode rolls out
Chairwoman Meng Wanzhou hails company’s breakthroughs in 2025, vowing to take advantage of ‘strategic opportunities’ in AI
The US-sanctioned telecommunications gear maker, which plays a central role in China’s push for tech self-sufficiency, “built a solid foundation for computing” in 2025 with the expansion of its Kunpeng and Ascend chip ecosystems, Meng said in a letter published on Tuesday.
Huawei’s Ascend AI processor attracted more than 3,000 partners and 4 million developers while Kunpeng, the company’s server central processing units, garnered more than 6,800 partners and 3.8 million developers, according to Meng.
Huawei went public with its Ascend AI chip development blueprint three months ago, as the Shenzhen-based firm projected confidence that it could build an AI hardware system comparable to Nvidia. At the time, Huawei said it had developed the “world’s most powerful” supernode computing cluster, based on Ascend chips, to help empower the country’s AI ambitions.
Meng said its Atlas 900 supernode system, a world-leading AI training cluster using thousands of Ascend chips, was serving multiple industries, including internet, finance, telecoms and power grid operators.
“A new journey in the age of intelligence has begun,” Meng said. In the new year, Huawei would make its clustering and supernode technology “more readily accessible” to form a “solid AI computing backbone”.