Huawei Connect 2026: Ascend 960 puts industry-first NPO supernode at heart of AI scale-up bet
At Connect 2026, Huawei announced the Ascend 960 supernode built around near-packaged optics (NPO). The company is betting on scaling AI computing beyond the capabilities of individual accelerators.
- Ascend 960 is a next-generation supernode based on NPO optics
- NPO is central to Huawei's AI computing scale-up strategy
- Announcement made by Huawei board vice chairman David Wang
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