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Huawei has announced a deployment plan for its HiSilicon-developed Hi-ONE optical engine, using near-package optics (NPO) in a 4,096-card Ascend 960 supernode. The design replaces 48,000 800G pluggable optical modules with 5,500 Hi-ONE units, each carrying 7.2T of bandwidth across 36 200G lanes. A cross-cabinet interconnect device supports 176 1.6T ports and about 280T of all-optical interconnect bandwidth. Huawei says this would be the first AI supernode to use NPO.

Huawei also launched an OPEN NPO standards initiative with Baidu, JD Cloud, China Mobile Research Institute and optical component makers.

At the 2026 Inclusion Bund Conference on September 9, Taichu Yuanqi presented its domestic AI-for-science (AI4S) computing platform, which went live in July. The company says the platform runs on its heterogeneous many-core AI chip and is compatible with Loongson, Sunway, Phytium, and x86 CPUs as well as PyTorch, JAX, PaddlePaddle, and MindSpore frameworks.

The company also debuted TecoWeatherNext, a typhoon-tracking system it says fuses meteorological data with AI forecast models to display layered typhoon track, wind field, pressure, temperature, and precipitation. Taichu Yuanqi joined Tsinghua University, Hunan University, Shandong University, Baidu, Dongrun, and nearly 20 other institutions in an initiative for a domestic AI4S computing innovation ecosystem.