Huawei says Ascend 960DT will launch in Q1 2027, three quarters early; 960PR follows in Q3, one quarter early. Ascend 970 and 980 are planned for 2028 and 2029.
Over 1,000 Ascend supernodes are deployed, with 950 systems entering commercial use at scale.
Atlas 960 SuperPoD will support up to 15,488 Ascend cards across 220 racks. Huawei projects 3× the training and 4× the inference performance of Atlas 950 SuperPoD.