Ascend 910

Ascend is a series of AI accelerators developed by Huawei.

Ascend 910

Ascend 910 is the original version of the accelerator built from chiplets fabbed by TSMC on the N7+ process (“7nm-class with EUV”).¹

Ascend 910C

Ascend 910C is an upgrade of the 910 whose compute chiplets are manufactured by SMIC on its 2nd generation 7nm-class process, “N+2.”¹ The SoC has around 53 billion transistors.¹

CloudMatrix 384

CloudMatrix 384 is a scale-up version of the Ascend 910C intended to compete against GB200 NVL72. It puts 384 Ascend 910C accelerators in a single scale-up domain(?) at a cost of $8.2 million.²

Footnotes

1. DeepSeek research suggests Huawei’s Ascend 910C delivers 60% Nvidia H100 inference performance ↩ ↩² ↩³

2. Huawei delivers advanced AI chip ‘cluster’ to Chinese clients cut off from Nvidia ↩