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As high-bandwidth memory (HBM) shortages intensify, Chinese AI chipmakers Huawei and Cambricon have raised indicative prices for their AI accelerator products, including the Ascend 950DT and the upcoming 690, according to Reuters and Bloomberg. Huawei has increased the quoted price of its Ascend 950

QuantumDiamonds has secured €91 million in funding, marking a significant step in Europe’s semiconductor innovation push. The company’s quantum-based chip inspection technology uses synthetic diamond defects to detect magnetic fields with high precision, enabling non-destructive, three-dimensional i

Huawei plans to enter South Korea's AI chip market in Q4 2026 with its Ascend 950 processors and Atlas 950 SuperPod platform, marking a major move into one of NVIDIA's strongest overseas AI markets. Huawei aims to compete on price and performance, offering a cost-effective alternative to NVIDIA's H2

Recent leaks have revealed the internal design details of Huawei's upcoming Ascend 950DT chip, set for an August debut. Compared to its predecessor, the Ascend 950PR, the new chip features a reduced number of dies—four instead of ten—yet achieves enhanced performance through advanced technologies li

A Huawei-led research group has claimed successful full-parameter post-training of DeepSeek's V4-Pro, a 1.6-trillion-parameter model, using a cluster of at least 1,000 Huawei Ascend 910C chips. This development, confirmed by the Shenzhen municipal government, underscores China’s progress in developi