On 18 September 2025, at the Huawei Connect conference in Shanghai, Huawei introduced the SuperPoD Interconnect, capable of linking up to 15,000 Ascend AI cards. The announcement came one day after China barred domestic firms from purchasing Nvidia RTX Pro 600D servers and other hardware, a move framed as
Chinese AI startup DeepSeek has postponed the release of its anticipated R2 model after training efforts using Huawei's Ascend chips encountered persistent technical issues, the Financial Times reported on August 14, 2025. The company ultimately resorted to using Nvidia chips for training while employing Huawei's Ascend
Huawei announced in August 2025 that it will make its CANN AI GPU toolkit and Unified Cache Manager (UCM) framework open source, directly challenging Nvidia's CUDA platform's nearly two-decade monopoly in AI development ecosystems. This strategic move is particularly significant within the context of China'
