Ascend 910 Series
announcementHuawei's family of AI training and inference processors. Ascend 310 (announced Oct 2018) targets edge inference at under 10W. Ascend 910 (launched Aug 2019) is the flagship AI training chip, used to train PanGu models. Ascend 910B (2023) was the first post-sanctions chip manufactured by SMIC at 7nm. Ascend 910C (H2 2024) uses dual-die packaging for improved performance. Key infrastructure for China's domestic AI ecosystem.