Companies/Huawei
Shenzhen, China
Huawei
Designs the Ascend accelerator line and the Kunpeng Arm server CPU, and is the only company outside the United States shipping a full domestic AI compute stack at volume. Added to the US Entity List in May 2019, which is the event that turned its silicon programme from a commercial strategy into a national one.
Systems this company appears in
- Systems
- 21
- Aggregate Rmax
- 9.84 PFlop/s
- Aggregate power
- 2.77 MW
- First appearance
- 2015
- Most recent
- 2026-03
- Concentration
- 36%
Aggregate Rmax is the sum of the systems this company supplies any part of. It is not revenue and not attributable share: an integrator and a memory vendor in the same machine both count its full FLOPS here. Attribution weighted by role is Phase 4.
Role breakdown
| Role | Systems | Rmax in those systems |
|---|---|---|
| Integrator | 17 | 9.84 PFlop/s |
| Accelerator | 11 | 0.0 GFlop/s |
| CPU | 3 | 0.0 GFlop/s |
| Interconnect | 2 | 0.0 GFlop/s |
| Storage | 3 | 0.0 GFlop/s |
Appearances
| System | Supplied as | Shipped under | Rmax | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Shenzhen 10,000-Card Ascend Cluster China · 2026-03 | Accelerator | Huawei | - | unranked |
| Huawei Cloud Wuhu CloudMatrix Supernodes China · 2025-04 | Accelerator, CPU, Interconnect, Integrator | Huawei | - | unranked |
| iFlytek Feixing-1 China · 2023-10-24 | Accelerator, Storage | Huawei | - | unranked |
| Chongqing AI Innovation Center China · 2023-04 | Accelerator, Integrator | Huawei | - | unranked |
| Tianjin AI Computing Center China · 2023-03 | Integrator | Huawei | - | unranked |
| Wuhan Supercomputing Center China · 2022-11-23 | CPU, Integrator | Huawei | - | unranked |
| Qingdao AI Computing Center China · 2022-11 | Accelerator, Integrator | Huawei | - | unranked |
| Chengdu Intelligent Computing Center China · 2022-05-10 | Accelerator, Integrator | Huawei | - | unranked |
| Xi'an Future AI Computing Center China · 2021-09-09 | Accelerator, Integrator | Huawei | - | unranked |
| Wuhan AI Computing Center China · 2021-05-31 | Accelerator, Integrator | Huawei | - | unranked |
| Altair Poland · 2021-05 | Integrator | Huawei | 3.53 PFlop/s | #85 November 2020 → |
| Ares Poland · 2021 | Integrator | Huawei | 2.34 PFlop/s | unranked |
| Tryton Plus Poland · 2021 | Integrator | Huawei | 1.73 PFlop/s | #360 June 2021 → |
| EthERNet HPC Facility Ethiopia · 2019 | Storage | Huawei | - | unranked |
| Graham Canada · 2017-05 | Integrator | Huawei | 1.23 PFlop/s | #166 June 2018 → |
| BA-HPC C2 Egypt · 2016-08 | Integrator | Huawei | - | unranked |
| PSNC Eagle Poland · 2015 | Integrator | Huawei | 1.01 PFlop/s | #80 November 2015 → |
| Pengcheng Cloudbrain-II China · | Integrator, Accelerator, Interconnect | Huawei | - | unranked |
| China Merchants Bank AI Compute Platform China · | Accelerator | Huawei | - | unranked |
| Alfahd Saudi Arabia · | Integrator, Storage | Huawei | - | unranked |
| Huawei Cloud Ulanqab CloudMatrix Supernode China · | Accelerator, CPU, Integrator | Huawei | - | unranked |
Parts supplied
| Part | Category | Generation | Released |
|---|---|---|---|
| Huawei CloudMatrix 384 | Accelerators | CloudMatrix | 2025 |
| Huawei Ascend 910 | Accelerators | Da Vinci | 2019 |
| Huawei Kunpeng 920 | CPUs | Kunpeng | 2019 |
| Huawei HCCS | Interconnect | HCCS | 2019 |
| Huawei Ascend 910C | Accelerators | Da Vinci | - |
Sites operated
| Site | Location | Cooling | Commissioned |
|---|---|---|---|
| Huawei Cloud Wuhu Data Center | Wuhu, Anhui, China | - | - |
| Huawei Cloud Ulanqab Data Center | Ulanqab, Inner Mongolia, China | - | - |
Further reading
Operating a supercomputer
Acceptance testing, why "installed" and "in production" are six months apart, and the machine lifecycle.
Inside a node
Why accelerators exist, what the memory hierarchy costs, and how the CPU and accelerator merged onto one package.
The interconnect
Topologies, why latency and tail behaviour matter more than bandwidth, and how the fabric market consolidated.