Huawei unveils interconnects to address large-scale AI infrastructure bottlenecks | Computer Weekly

"In his conference keynote, Groundbreaking SuperPoD Interconnect: Leading a new paradigm for AI infrastructure, Eric Xu, the deputy chairman of the board and rotating chairman of the IT and networking giant, stressed that Huawei's goal was to sustainably meet long-term computing demand by building SuperPoDs - defined as a single logical machine, made up of multiple physical machines that can learn, think and reason as one - and SuperClusters, with the semiconductor manufacturing process nodes that he said were "practically" available to the Chinese mainland."

"During the keynote, Xu unveiled the company's newest SuperPoD products: the Atlas 950 SuperPoD, with 8,192 Ascend neural processing units (NPUs), and the Atlas 960 SuperPoD, with 15,488 Ascend NPUs. These two SuperPoDs are claimed to be able to deliver "industry-leading performance" across multiple key metrics, including the number of NPUs, total computing power, memory capacity and interconnect bandwidth."

"Opening its Connect 2025 conference, Huawei stressed that computing power is and will continue to be key to the continued roll-out of artificial intelligence (AI) across distributed business infrastructures, especially in China, and used the event to launch a range of computer pods and clusters, as well as interconnect technology to address potential data bottlenecks for large-scale AI computing infrastructure."

Huawei emphasized that computing power is essential for AI deployment across distributed business infrastructures and introduced computer pods, clusters, and interconnect technology to reduce large-scale data bottlenecks. The company defined SuperPoDs as a single logical machine composed of multiple physical machines that can learn, think and reason collectively, and described SuperClusters as aggregations of multiple SuperPoDs. Huawei unveiled Atlas 950 SuperPoD (8,192 Ascend NPUs) and Atlas 960 SuperPoD (15,488 Ascend NPUs), and announced Atlas 950 SuperCluster (over 500,000 Ascend NPUs) and Atlas 960 SuperCluster (over one million Ascend NPUs). The products are claimed to deliver industry-leading compute, memory, and interconnect bandwidth performance.

Read at ComputerWeekly.com