{
  "id": 8229373,
  "title": "Huawei details AI accelerator roadmap, pulls in next-generation Ascend NPUs by several quarters — FP4 performance of the Ascend 960PR doubles expectations",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/18/huawei-details-ai-accelerator-roadmap-pulls-in-next-generation-ascend",
  "topic": "ai",
  "section": "AI",
  "published": "2026-09-18T10:30:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Tom's Hardware",
    "slug": "tom-s-hardware",
    "url": "https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/huawei-details-ai-accelerator-roadmap-pulls-in-next-generation-ascend-npus-by-quarters-fp4-performance-of-the-ascend-960pr-doubles-expectations"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "Huawei has updated its AI hardware roadmap, introducing next-generation Ascend 960 accelerators at its Huawei Connect event. The company announced the specifications of Ascend 970 and 980, along with the Peerium architecture based on the UnifiedBus and its transition to SIMD+SIMT architectures. The first Ascend NPUs to adopt this new architecture are Ascend 950PR for prefill and recommendation, and Ascend 950DT for decoding and training. The Ascend 960DT is expected to be released in Q1 2027, delivering 2 FP8 PFLOPS and 4 FP4 PFLOPS, with 288 GB of memory and 9.6 TB/s bandwidth. The Ascend 960PR, with 2 FP8 PFLOPS for training and 8 FP4 PFLOPS for inference, is set to launch in Q3 2027, outperforming previous expectations with double the FP4 performance.",
  "summary": "Huawei's mimics Nvidia's approach to AI factories, unveils details about next-generation Ascend NPUs, Kunpeng CPUs, scale-up and scale-out connectivity solutions.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
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  "coverage": {
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}