SHANGHAI, Sept 18 (Reuters) - Huawei's Vice Chairman

Eric Xu said on Thursday the company plans to launch the world's

most powerful computing power node called the Atlas 950 in the

fourth quarter of this year, local media China Star Market

reported.

Xu, who also serves as Huawei's rotating chairman, added

that Huawei would launch the next generation, Atlas 960, in the

fourth quarter of 2027, the online publication reported.

The Atlas 950 and Atlas 960 can support 8,192 and 15,488

Ascend chips, respectively, Xu said.

Chinese authorities have urged firms to prioritise

Huawei Ascend AI chips and other domestic alternatives over

Nvidia ( NVDA ) chips, which offer comparable computing

performance.

Xu said that the systems excel in metrics such as card

count, total compute, memory capacity and interconnect

bandwidth.