[SMM Flash] Huawei Ascend 950DT 10,000-card pool + 1,024-card liquid-cooled super node goes live

**Major Recent Advances in Huawei Ascend**

**[Large-Scale Deployment]**

On 10-16, China Telecom and Huawei launched the world's first Ascend 950DT 10,000-card pool in Inner Mongolia; on the same day, China Mobile launched an Ascend 950DT 1,000-card supernode in Beijing. On 10-15, the first 1,024-card Atlas 950 SuperPoD liquid-cooled supernode was powered on and completed 0Day adaptation for StepFun Step 5 Preview.

**[Core Performance]**

The 1,024-card liquid-cooled supernode features the following key specifications: computing power of 1 EFLOPS FP8 / 2 EFLOPS FP4, equipped with 256TB of globally unified memory, inter-card interconnect bandwidth at the TB level, and end-to-end communication latency of only 3μs.

**[Technology Evolution and Roadmap]**

Huawei has achieved cluster upgrades from 384 cards to 8,192 cards; the next-generation 960 supernode will debut the NPO solution, with support for scaling up to 4,096 cards.

**[Market Performance]**

In H1, Huawei Ascend shipments reached 572,000 units, with a market share of 28%.