Huawei's in-house Ascend processors and their surrounding supplier network are being positioned as the foundation of a national effort to build an independent, fully domestic semiconductor ecosystem.

Huawei has unveiled its Ascend NPU roadmap featuring Ascend 950, 960, 970 processors and massive SuperClusters with over a million of processors and up to 4 ZettaFLOPS FP4 performance in 2028, shifting from chip scaling to system-level scaling, amid U.S. sanctions and manufacturing constraints.