The next AI superpower? China’s quiet lead in the race for scale

For the upcoming Ascend 950 series, Huawei’s Atlas 950 SuperPoD supernode supports up to 8,192 Ascend chips. Compared to Nvidia’s NVL144, due for release in the second half of 2026, the Atlas 950 SuperPoD is 56.8 times larger in scale, has 6.7 times the total computing power, and 15 times the memory capacity, reaching 1,152 TB; its interconnect bandwidth is 62 times higher, reaching 16.3 PB/s.