Huawei Ascend 昇腾
alternative to NVIDIA GPUs
AI stack Private Partly open
silicon Ascend 910-series AI accelerators with the CANN software stack.
Parent
Huawei
Registered
Shenzhen
Ticker
—
Cap / valuation
private
Parent Huawei is on the US FCC Covered List; that covers Huawei's telecom & video-surveillance equipment, not this product. ↗
Huawei telecom/surveillance equipment is also barred from US federal procurement & contractor use (NDAA §889); this product is not that equipment. ↗
Export-control note
- Ascend's maker HiSilicon (Huawei) is on the US BIS Entity List (since 2019): exporting US-origin technology to it requires a license (presumption of denial); the Huawei Foreign-Produced Direct Product Rule also applies.BIS Entity List · presumption of denial · listed 2019-05-16 · source ↗
Investment restriction note
- Treasury's Outbound Investment Security Program (eff. 2025-01-02) may prohibit or require notification of US-person investment into this company's covered semiconductor/AI activities — a sector-based rule, not an entity list.Treasury Outbound Investment · listed 2025-01-02 · source ↗