Huawei developed World's fastest AI training cluster. For Huawei, who previously listed 33 US companies as core suppliers for chips and processors, a ban on purchasing US goods was expected to take a hit on R&D at a crucial time. Several analysts predict the counter effect of this move is Huawei's redoubled effort to be technologically self-reliant, and a recent'AI breakthrough' might provide further backing for those comments. Huawei claimed to have developed the world's fastest artificial intelligence (AI) training cluster--Atlas 900. Atlas 900, dubbed the "fastest AI training model", combines "the power of 1, 024 Ascend 910 AI chips and has a computing capability as strong as the aggregation of 500, 000 personal computers," as reported in CCTV. At Huawei Connect 2019, the electronics maker said; "it takes Atlas 900 only 59.8 seconds to train ResNet-50, the gold standard for measuring AI training performance.

Huawei and Peng Cheng Laboratory (PCL) have jointly released Peng Cheng Cloud Brain II Phase 1, officially launching the journey to AI clusters at 1000 petaFLOPS (PFLOPS) scale. This marks a new milestone in the scientific research field for the Kunpeng computing industry. Running at the bedrock of Cloud Brain II is the Huawei Atlas 900 AI cluster, powered by the Huawei Kunpeng and Ascend processors. The computing power of Peng Cheng Cloud Brain is currently 100 PFLOPS, planned to scale to 1000 PFLOPS and higher next year. "This September, Huawei embarked on the Kunpeng Ascend dual-engine computing strategy. Inspired by this strategy, we are committed to providing the ultimate computing power to the world. We also released Atlas 900, the world's fastest AI training cluster," said Hou Jinlong, Senior VP of Huawei, and President of Huawei Cloud & AI Products and Services.