HUAWEI CONNECT

Huawei’ s David Wang, Deputy Chairman of the Board and Rotating Chairman, highlighted its commitment to building powerful AI infrastructure

During the first day of the HUAWEI CONNECT 2026 event in Shanghai, the ICT vendor announced several new products, including the Atlas 960E SuperPoD, an upgraded TaiShan 950 SuperPoD, along with the OceanStor M900 memory context storage system and shed light on its plans to support the AI industry.

The event’ s opening keynote speech( Advancing the Agentic World, Building a Solid Silicon Foundation), which was given by David Wang, the Deputy Chairman of the Board and Rotating Chairman at Huawei, made many references to SuperPoDs.

This is a term for a computing system where multiple computing nodes are tightly coupled through high-speed interconnect. This enables them to share unified memory and function like a single computer.

Huawei’ s SuperPoD Huawei’ s SuperPod design approach involves: connecting all cluster components under a single protocol with peer-to-peer interconnect, supporting cross-physical-server memory access and using short-reach copper alongside long-reach optics.

The company highlights that more than a thousand Atlas 900 A3 SuperPoDs have been deployed, while its Atlas 950 SuperPoD is seeing large-scale commercial use.

In addition, Huawei states that SuperPoD architecture cuts down on the need for intra-cluster communications, which eat up more than 40 % of total training time when using traditional server architectures thereby heavily limiting Model FLOPs Utilisation( MFU).

According to simulation results from Huawei’ s Markov Lab, a 100k-NPU cluster built with 4k-NPU SuperPoDs can deliver a 2.75x increase in MFU compared to a 100k-NPU cluster composed of 8-NPU servers.

During his speech, David unveiled the Atlas 960E SuperPoD powered by UnifiedBus and Hi-ONE. Huawei says that this is the first SuperPoD to be based on near-packaged optics( NPO).

“ SuperPoDs are designed to coordinate multiple NPUs through interconnect,” said David.

“ We have developed a next-generation optical interconnect product based on NPO: the High-density Opticalinterconnect-Node Engine( Hi-ONE).”

6 huawei. com