Huawei Cloud will begin commercial operations of its Ascend 950 AI cluster cloud service in China on Sept. 30 and expand it to global markets on Nov. 30, Huawei Cloud CEO Zhou Yuefeng said at Huawei Connect 2026.
The Ascend 950 system uses Huawei’s UnifiedBus interconnect architecture to build a 1,024-card AI cluster. Huawei said it can deliver up to 1 EFLOPS of FP8 computing power and 2 EFLOPS of FP4 computing power, with 256TB of globally addressable memory. The system is designed to support end-to-end training of large-scale models without additional cluster-level adaptation.
Huawei also said its Ascend 960 roadmap is ahead of schedule. The Ascend 960DT is planned for the first quarter of 2027, while the 960PR is planned for the third quarter. The company said more than 1,000 Ascend supernodes have already been deployed and that Ascend 950 supernodes have entered commercial use. [IT Home, in Chinese]