Huawei promises annual AI chip leaps, rivals Nvidia

Huawei Vice President Chen Lin announced the Ascend 950DT chip at the 2026 Huawei Cloud INSPIRE Innovators Conference, arriving later this year with upgraded vector computing, wider memory bandwidth, and native FP8 support. Chen publicly committed to a release cadence of one generation per year with doubled computing power, challenging Nvidia's control over AI chip progress.