Huawei Connect 2025 in Shanghai saw Eric Xu unveil groundbreaking SuperPoDs and SuperClusters, setting a new benchmark for AI infrastructure.
HUAWEI CONNECT 2025 opened in Shanghai, where Eric Xu, Huawei’s Deputy Chairman and Rotating Chairman, delivered a keynote titled ‘Groundbreaking SuperPoD Interconnect: Leading a New Paradigm for AI Infrastructure.’ At the event, Xu introduced the world’s most robust SuperPoDs and SuperClusters.
Xu noted,
“Computing power is – and will continue to be – key to AI. This is especially true in China.”
He emphasized Huawei’s mission to meet long-term computing demand by building SuperPoDs and SuperClusters with locally available semiconductor process nodes.
He introduced the Atlas 950 SuperPoD with 8,192 Ascend NPUs and the Atlas 960 SuperPoD with 15,488 NPUs, both delivering industry-leading power, memory, and interconnect performance. According to public roadmaps, these are the world’s most powerful SuperPoDs, expected to hold that lead for years.
A key challenge for large-scale AI infrastructure has been interconnect technology, as current optical and copper cables struggle to link vast numbers of chips with high speed and low latency.
Leveraging decades of expertise and system innovations, Huawei introduced UnifiedBus, a breakthrough interconnect protocol for SuperPoDs. Xu also unveiled UnifiedBus 2.0, inviting industry partners to adopt it and help build an open ecosystem.
“SuperPoDs and SuperClusters powered by UnifiedBus are our answer to surging demand for computing, both today and tomorrow,”
concluded Xu.
“Our goal is to keep pushing advancements in AI to create greater value.”
