# #Huawei in the news

October 8, 2026 at 03:08 PM

> Huawei Ascend AI Chips Outsell Nvidia in China · China Acquires Hundreds of ASML Lithography Units · Huawei Unveils Ascend AI Chip Roadmap Through 2029

[Huawei Ascend AI Chips Outsell Nvidia in China](<https://hardwarebrief.com/article/huawei-ascend-ai-chips-outsell-nvidia-in-china-a69ec13e>)
*October 8, 2026 at 03:08 PM* - Huawei unveils the Atlas 950 SuperPoD and Peerium architecture as Ascend AI chips surpass Nvidia sales in the Chinese market.

[China Acquires Hundreds of ASML Lithography Units](<https://hardwarebrief.com/article/china-acquires-hundreds-of-asml-lithography-units-cd0a63ba>)
*October 5, 2026 at 09:11 AM* - A new report reveals China's heavy reliance on Western DUV scanners and Huawei's use of Tau-Scaling to bypass advanced tool shortages.

[Huawei Unveils Ascend AI Chip Roadmap Through 2029](<https://hardwarebrief.com/article/huawei-unveils-ascend-ai-chip-roadmap-through-2029-6309a28a>)
*September 18, 2026 at 08:52 AM* - Huawei announces the Ascend 960 and 980 AI chips, focusing on HBM capacity and optical interconnects for supercomputing architectures.

[DeepSeek Orders 160,000 Huawei Ascend 950DT Chips](<https://hardwarebrief.com/article/deepseek-orders-160-000-huawei-ascend-950dt-chips-27bdb56e>)
*September 8, 2026 at 04:00 PM* - DeepSeek will deploy 160,000 Huawei Ascend 950DT accelerators in Inner Mongolia to provide 160 ExaFLOPS of peak FP8 inference performance.