Huawei Ascend 960
Huawei's 2027 chip: 2 PFLOPS FP8 and 4 PFLOPS FP4, double the Ascend 950's compute, memory capacity and bandwidth, and up to 15,488 chips in one Atlas 960 SuperPoD. Due in the fourth quarter of 2027. Sources and verification dates.
Every published figure
Source per value- Owner The company that specified the chip and runs it in its own cloud, data centers or products.
- Huawei 1
- Role What the owner says the chip is for: training, inference, both, or a general-purpose server CPU.
- Training and inference 1
- Design partner The ASIC house that co-designed or physically implemented the chip (Broadcom, Marvell, MediaTek, Alchip, GUC and others), as stated by the owner, the partner, a filing or named trade-press reporting. 'In-house' when the owner states it designed the chip itself, including through an acquired team such as Annapurna Labs.
- In-house (HiSilicon) 1
- FP8 TFLOPS Published peak FP8 throughput per chip in TFLOPS. The precision note records sparsity where the owner states it. Blank when the owner gives no FP8 figure.
- 2,000 1
- FP4 TFLOPS Published FP4 throughput per chip or accelerator module in TFLOPS. MXFP4 and MX4 have separate columns; see the precision note for scope.
- 4,000 1
- Precision note What the throughput figures mean: dense or sparse, which precision, per chip or per package, and any figure the owner states only in another unit.
- Huawei states 2 PFLOPS FP8 and 4 PFLOPS FP4 per chip. 1
- Largest pod chips The largest scale-up domain the owner states: chips per pod, UltraServer, supernode or rack joined by the chip-to-chip interconnect.
- 15,488 1
- Status Announced: public roadmap without verified deployment. Sampling: first silicon or limited internal use. Preview: customers can request early access, without a GA claim. Deployed: stated production use or general availability. Discontinued: program stopped.
- Announced 1
- Announced Year the owner first announced the chip publicly.
- 2,025 1
- Deployment scale The largest deployment the owner or a named report states: chip counts, clusters, gigawatts or regions.
- Atlas 960 SuperPoD: up to 15,488 chips in 220 cabinets. 1
- How to get it How an outside buyer can use the chip: a named cloud instance or service, a product, or 'Internal only'.
- Huawei Atlas 960 SuperPoD (Q4 2027) 1
Not verified in the sources reviewed: partner basis, foundry, node, memory, memory capacity, memory bandwidth, bf16, fp16, mxfp8, mxfp4, mx8, mx4, int8, power.
Sources
- Huawei: Eric Xu keynote at Huawei Connect 2025 accessed 2026-11-11