Huawei's Ascend 910C chip has reportedly achieved up to 40% yield rates, with plans to produce over 100,000 units this year, signaling a massive breakthrough for the domestic AI market.
Huawei's Next-Gen Ascend AI Chip Now Comes With Impressive Yield Rates, Making Mass-Production Much More Efficient
Well, Huawei's upcoming Ascend AI chip might be the next "DeepSeek moment" since the Chinese firm is on its way to disrupting the computing competition from the likes of NVIDIA. Huawei is set to unveil its Ascend 910C chip pretty soon, and based on what we know now, it is expected to compete with NVIDIA's H100 AI GPU in terms of raw performance. Now, according to a report by The Financial Times, it is claimed that Huawei's Ascend 910C has doubled down on yield rates in the span of a year, suggesting that mass-production is indeed close.
The Chinese conglomerate has increased the “yield” — the percentage of functional chips made on its production line — of its latest AI chips to close to 40 per cent, according to two people with knowledge of the matter. That represents a doubling from 20 per cent about a year ago.
- The Financial Times
Now, this means that Huawei is one step closer to unleashing their newest Ascend AI product onto the markets. Based on what we disclosed in a previous report, it might be that Huawei will launch the 910C around NVIDIA's GTC 2025 conference to steer off the hype from it, but for now, this remains uncertain. It is said that with the improved yield figures, the Chinese firm will see massive profitability rates, allowing them to further scale up in this segment.
Apart from this, Huawei plans to go big with the 910C production figures, since the firm is rumored to ramp up to 100,000 units by the end of 2025, and given the dominance of NVIDIA's CUDA in Chinese markets, Huawei also intends to break it by developing their "in-house" CANN software to compete with Team Green. It is indeed a long-term plan by the Chinese firm, but they surely look determined.
We already know that Huawei's Ascend AI chip portfolio is employed by DeepSeek, Alibaba, and Baidu, but its use cases have been limited to low-to-mid workloads, mainly inference tasks. However, that looks to change with the 910C, allowing Huawei to expand into newer opportunities and, optimistically, steal NVIDIA's share in the domestic market.
About the author: Muhammad Zuhair is a hardware and technology reporter for Wccftech, specializing in the semiconductor industry and the complex interplay between technology, manufacturing, and geopolitics. His coverage focuses on the corporate strategies and technological roadmaps of industry giants like TSMC, NVIDIA, Samsung, and Intel. Zuhair's expertise lies in deconstructing complex topics such as fabrication nodes (e.g., 2nm process), the economic impact of policies like the CHIPS Act, and the strategic development of AI infrastructure from NVIDIA, AMD and Intel.
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