How Huawei plans to outperform global tech leaders with less powerful chips

Beijing – Huawei Technologies de China said Thursday that it would deploy the most powerful computer grapes in the world over the next two years, while she is trying to surpass world leaders despite their appearance on less powerful national semiconductors.

China rushes to develop its own technology because Restricted America which can be sold to China, including its most advanced chips. At the same time, the Chinese government would have told companies to stop buying American fleas because it seeks to transform China into a world technological leader and which depends less on imported components.

Huawei, at the forefront of efforts to develop a local technology, said at an annual customer event in Shanghai that he would launch new “superpods” at the end of 2026 and at the end of 2027. It is a jargon of the IT industry for a group of interconnected computer which, in the case of Huawei, combines the power of thousands of chips.

This immense power is necessary to manage models in the booming field of artificial intelligence, an area of ​​hot competition between the United States and China.

“This is an important step,” said Charlie Dai, technological analyst of the research company Forrester Research. “It signals a stronger push towards autonomy and resilience in the face of export restrictions.”

Huawei announced its intention to publish the Atlas 950 and 960 superpods in the next two years. Dozens of “superpods”, like the Huawei brand, could be connected to form what Huawei said would be the most powerful “superclusters” in the world.

The 950 and 960 are the most powerful superpods in the world and would remain so for the years to come, said a press release from the company, based on the road cards of products from other members of the industry.

The challenge for China is how to follow the pace of American competitors such as Open IA and Google without access to the most powerful semiconductors in the world, especially those of Nvidia, American market leader. The answer was to use many more chips and develop architecture to make them work well together.

“Our strategy consists in creating a new IT architecture and developing superpods and computer supercluses, to respond sustainably to the long -term demand for computer power,” said Eric Xu, Huawei’s current rotation president, at the Customer Conference, according to a transcription provided by the company.

Huawei, based in Shenzhen in southern China, has also announced its intention to launch new AI chips in its Ascend series over the next three years. The Atlas 950 and 960 superpods would be based on Ascend 950 and 960 chips, which released in 2026 and 2027. An ascend 970 chip could follow in 2028.