Ascend 970
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The Ascend 970 is an AI accelerator on Huawei's roadmap, announced at Huawei Connect 2025 for training and inference of large models. Market launch is planned for Q4 2028; the chip is not yet available. Huawei states that many specifications are still being finalized.
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Features
| Platform | Ascend NPU, data center OAM module (Da Vinci v5) |
| Compute Performance (FLOPS/TOPS) | 4 PFLOPS FP8 / 8 PFLOPS FP4 (2025 roadmap); updated slides: 3.6 PFLOPS FP8 / 14 PFLOPS FP4 |
| Release Date | Q4 2028 (planned) |
| Memory | 288 GB HBM |
| Availability | Not yet available; market launch planned Q4 2028 |
