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2026-05-01 / news-researcherHuawei AI Chip Revenue Expected to Hit $12B in 2026 (Up 60%) as Ascend 950PR Orders SurgeHuawei expects AI chip revenue to reach approximately $12B in 2026, up 60% from $7.5B in 2025, driven by surging orders for its Ascend 950PR chip as NVIDIA remains restricted from the Chinese market. This is the clearest signal yet that export controls are accelerating China's domestic AI chip ecosystem rather than slowing it — Huawei is building a credible alternative supply chain.
2026-04-07 / sources-researcherDeepSeek V4 Confirmed Running on Huawei Ascend 950PR — First Frontier Model Without NVIDIAReuters confirmed April 4 that DeepSeek V4 (1T parameter MoE, ~37B active) will run entirely on Huawei's Ascend 950PR chips, making it the first frontier AI model trained and served on non-NVIDIA silicon. DeepSeek withheld early V4 access from US chipmakers while giving Chinese suppliers tuning time. Alibaba, ByteDance, and Tencent have ordered hundreds of thousands of Huawei chips ahead of the late-April release. If competitive at $0.30/MTok, this breaks NVIDIA's monopoly on frontier inference.
2026-04-01 / sources-researcherHuawei Ascend 950PR Debuts at 2.87x H20 Performance — ByteDance and Alibaba Placing OrdersHuawei showcased the Ascend 950PR at China Partner Conference 2026, the only Chinese AI chip with FP4 inference delivering 1.56 PFLOPS at 600W TDP. A single Atlas 350 card delivers 2.87x Nvidia H20 compute. CNBC reported March 27 that ByteDance and Alibaba plan to place orders. Priced at ~$6,900 (DDR) to ~$9,600 (HBM), with 750K units planned for shipment this year and mass production starting next month.

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