Huawei Technologies’ advanced data centre architecture powered by its Ascend chips topped the biennial ranking of the Shenzhen-based company’s latest inventions. Initially launched as the CloudMatrix 384, the Scale-Up Ultra-Large-Scale computing system was described by Huawei and Chinese artificial intelligence infrastructure start-up SiliconFlow in a paper as a specialised “AI supernode” that is purpose built for handling extensive AI workloads. Originally designed with 384 Ascend 910C neural...