Huawei, based in Shenzhen, designs the Ascend AI chips used in its Atlas SuperPoD clusters. Its published roadmap puts the Ascend 950 series in 2026, the 960 in 2027 and the 970 in 2028.
At a glance
| Price from | Custom |
| Best for | AI labs and clouds in China that cannot buy top Nvidia chips |
From Huawei (Ascend)'s own website.
What stands out
- Very large clustered systems
- In-house memory and interconnect
Worth knowing
- Limited availability outside China
- Constrained by US export controls
How it ranks
Huawei (Ascend) is ranked 6th of 10 in Best AI Chip Companies (Lister Score 90.8).
#6 in Best AI Chip Companies · Lister Score 90.8
Huawei showed its Atlas 950 SuperPoD, built on Ascend chips, at MWC in March 2026..
| Rank | Best AI Chip Companies | Score |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nvidia | 97.4 |
| 2 | AMD | 95.9 |
| 3 | Google (TPU) | 94.7 |
| 4 | Broadcom | 93.5 |
| 5 | Amazon Web Services (Trainium) | 92.2 |
| 6 | Huawei (Ascend) | 90.8 |
| 7 | Cerebras | 89.5 |
| 8 | Intel | 88.1 |
| 9 | Qualcomm | 86.6 |
| 10 | Tenstorrent | 85.2 |
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