The United Kingdom and Taiwan are deepening their partnership in the global space economy, leveraging complementary strengths in innovation and manufacturing to accelerate progress across multiple domains.

At Huawei Connect 2025, the company rolled out a three-year roadmap for its Ascend chips alongside the debut of its Atlas 950 supernode. Rotating chairman Eric Xu warned that China’s AI future can no longer hinge on single-chip performance, constrained as it is by advanced process limits. The way forward, he argued, is a “supernode + cluster” architecture — Huawei’s bet on system-level design to secure scalable and sustainable compute.

Over a decade ago, China’s IT industry still heavily relied on imported chips and displays, but as of today, influenced by China-US geopolitical tensions, while the chips still depend on imports, the issue of the panel has effectively disappeared.