Huawei's Ascend 950 is scarce outside China; tinygrad offers port in exchange for hardware
teortaxesTex · x · 2026-10-01
- tinygrad's George Hotz publicly offered Huawei a deal: two Ascend 950 boxes in exchange for a tinygrad port, aiming to get first-hand exposure to the NPU.
- A follow-up post raises the question of whether a single Ascend 950 exists in the US or anywhere beyond China. Despite sales for a while, there are almost no hands-on reviews abroad, unlike Chinese consumer CPUs/GPUs, with overseas commentary mostly limited to think-tank speculation.
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