In addition to announcing its first AI cluster with 1 FP4 ZettaFLOPS performance, Huawei also revealed a detailed roadmap of its upcoming Ascend neural processing units (NPUs) that accelerate AI workloads at the Huawei Connect 2025 event.
The company does not have access to TSMC’s leading-edge process technologies or high-end HBM4 and GDDR7 memory from global leaders. So to boost the performance of its Ascend processors, it will need to rely on a new architecture and new types of memory, kicking off…
