Huawei Technologies unveiled its SuperPod technology on Thursday, combining AI chips with over 15,000 graphics cards, demonstrating a supercluster with 1 million graphics cards, according to media reports.
The move signals a direct challenge to Nvidia’s (NASDAQ:NVDA) dominance in large-scale AI infrastructure.
The Shenzhen-based firm’s new SuperPod technology can support linking as many as 15,488 graphics cards containing Huawei’s Ascend-branded artificial intelligence chips, the company said in a statement on Thursday, as per Bloomberg.
Huawei also announced a new lineup of AI chips it will release over the next three years at a company event on Thursday, according to Chinese media. The company is planning to launch Ascend 950PR early next year, Ascend 950DT chip in late 2026, Ascend 960 in late 2027, and Ascend 970 in late 2028.
The move comes as the Cyberspace Administration of China banned the nation’s largest technology companies from buying Nvidia’s (NASDAQ:NVDA) AI chips.
China’s internet regulator told companies, including ByteDance and Alibaba, this week to end their testing and orders of the RTX Pro 6000D, Nvidia’s custom-made product for the country.