LaunchDevelopersSeptember 17, 2026

Huawei unveils NPO-based Ascend 960 SuperPoD supernode

The Ascend 960 SuperPoD links up to 4,096 NPU cards for 8 EFLOPS of FP8 compute and 1PB of HBM, using Near-Packaged Optics instead of copper and pluggable modules. Huawei says 5,500 Hi-ONE units replace 40,000 800G optical modules, cutting power by over 550 kW and reaching 99.8% availability.

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