Huawei's Confirmed Ascend 960 Roadmap Points to Q4 2027 Launch

Huawei's published roadmap puts Ascend 960 in Q4 2027, positioning the chip as the next major step in China's effort to replace restricted Nvidia hardware for AI training and inference. The company says the accelerator will double Ascend 950's compute, memory bandwidth, memory capacity and interconnect ports, while powering Atlas 960 systems that scale to more than one million NPUs.