{"id":217962,"date":"2025-12-30T11:14:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-30T11:14:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/217962\/"},"modified":"2025-12-30T11:14:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-30T11:14:10","slug":"huawei-hails-ascend-ai-ecosystem-in-new-year-message-as-atlas-900-supernode-rolls-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/217962\/","title":{"rendered":"Huawei hails Ascend AI ecosystem in New Year message as Atlas 900 supernode rolls out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/topics\/meng-wanzhou?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Meng Wanzhou<\/a>, chief financial officer of <a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/knowledge\/companies\/huawei\/news?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Huawei Technologies<\/a> and daughter of its founder, hailed the company\u2019s breakthroughs in 2025 in a New Year message that vowed to take advantage of \u201cstrategic opportunities\u201d amid a \u201csurge of intelligence in all aspects of life and work\u201d.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The US-sanctioned telecommunications gear maker, which plays a central role in China\u2019s push for tech self-sufficiency, \u201cbuilt a solid foundation for computing\u201d in 2025 with the expansion of its Kunpeng and Ascend chip ecosystems, Meng said in a letter published on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Huawei\u2019s Ascend AI processor attracted more than 3,000 partners and 4 million developers while Kunpeng, the company\u2019s server central processing units, garnered more than 6,800 partners and 3.8 million developers, according to Meng.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">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 \u201cworld\u2019s most powerful\u201d supernode computing cluster, based on Ascend chips, to help empower the country\u2019s AI ambitions.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Meng Wanzhou speaks during the company\u2019s 2022 annual report press conference in Shenzhen, March 31, 2023. Photo: AFP\" data-qa=\"BaseImage-handleRenderImage-StyledImage\" class=\"e1gf69pb2 css-6ikqhs e445x7d0\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/3641162a-4fe9-4d21-b741-ccab95cce4e7_5730bf67.jpg\" title=\"Meng Wanzhou speaks during the company\u2019s 2022 annual report press conference in Shenzhen, March 31, 2023. Photo: AFP\"\/>Meng Wanzhou speaks during the company\u2019s 2022 annual report press conference in Shenzhen, March 31, 2023. Photo: AFP<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">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.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cA new journey in the age of intelligence has begun,\u201d Meng said. In the new year, Huawei would make its clustering and supernode technology \u201cmore readily accessible\u201d to form a \u201csolid AI computing backbone\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Meng Wanzhou, chief financial officer of Huawei Technologies and daughter of its founder, hailed the company\u2019s breakthroughs in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":217963,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[220,218,219,113200,113197,114,37756,1647,61,60,113199,113198,233,102295,2842,80,90,1519],"class_list":["post-217962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-ascend-ai","tag-ascend-chips","tag-china","tag-harmonyos","tag-huawei","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-kunpeng","tag-meng-wanzhou","tag-nvidia","tag-ren-zhengfei","tag-shenzhen","tag-technology","tag-us","tag-washington"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217962","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217962"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217962\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/217963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}