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Ascend 910B

Huawei's Da Vinci-architecture training AI accelerator and the workhorse of China's domestic AI compute build-out since 2023, broadly positioned between NVIDIA A100 and H100. Pricing has been the reference point for China-market AI chip competition with NVIDIA's H20.

ChinaShippingHuaweiAscend familyLaunched 20237nm-class (SMIC N+2 per CSET analysis; some dies reported TSMC-stockpiled)

Latest observation ~$13.9K (from ¥100,000 at 2024 avg 7.20 CNY/USD) (per card) as of 2024-05-24 · researched 2026-08-27

~$13.9Klatest observation · reported contract · 2024-05-24 · from ¥100,000
9dated price observations on record
6sourced specs (all linked below)

Specifications

Sourced specs

SpecValueSource
FP16 compute~320 TFLOPS (dense); China Telecom Cloud lists 376 TFLOPS for 910B instances — figures vary by variant B1/B2/B3via arthurchiao.art2026-08
INT8 compute640 TOPSvia arthurchiao.art2026-08
Memory64GB HBM2evia blog.heim.xyz2024
InterconnectHCCS, 392 GB/s aggregate (56 GB/s per one-to-one link)via arthurchiao.art2026-08
TDP310-400 W (sources differ)via arthurchiao.art2026-08
Process nodeSMIC N+2 7nm-classvia cset.georgetown.edu2024

Pricing

Price history, newest first

$13k$14k$16k$18k20242024-022024-022024-05~$15.3K (from ¥110,000) per card · 2024 · Street price · via 36kr~$16.7K (from ¥120,000) per card · 2024-02 · Street price · via 智东西 (zhidx)~$16.7K (from ¥120,000) per card · 2024-02-01 · Reported contract · via Reuters~$13.9K (from ¥100,000) per card · 2024-05-24 · Reported contract · via Reuters

Step chart of per-unit observations (system and order totals stay in the table). The line is drawn in USD at each observation year's average FX rate so mixed-currency histories read as one trend; hover any point for the price exactly as reported.

DatePriceTypeSourceConfidence
2026-08-27~$5 from ¥38.45 at 2026 avg 7.25 CNY/USD per card-hour (China Telecom Tianyi Cloud pak3.4xlarge.8, 1x Ascend 910B 64GB, on-demand)Official posted on-demand rate; same flavor is CNY 18,454/month prepaid. Huawei Cloud itself posts no public hourly 910B rate (price calculator / ModelArts spec ASCEND_SNT9B require console login).Market indexvia Tianyi Cloud (China Telecom) official GPU cloud host price overviewhigh
2026-08-27~$2 per card-hour (Huawei Cloud Ascend 910B 64GB, on-demand, via price tracker)Tracker lists Huawei Cloud on-demand at $1.80/hr single card and $1.85/hr x8 for an 8-card node; tracker page is JS-rendered, figure seen via search-engine snapshot. Underlying Huawei Cloud listing not publicly browsable without login.Street pricevia Tokligence GPU Price Monitorlow
2026-08-26~$1.7K from ¥12,000 at 2026 avg 7.25 CNY/USD per 8-card server-month (SMM Yangtze River Delta 910B2 anchored quote)Quote held >1 month; SMM flags bullish trend and narrowing low-price space (demand pairing 910B2 with H20 for DeepSeek V4 Flash inference). Implied ~CNY 2.08/card-hour.Street pricevia SMM computing-power newsmedium
2026-08-17~$1.9K from ¥13,750 at 2026 avg 7.25 CNY/USD per 8-card server-month (SMM West China 910B-64G average lease quote)SMM quotes per server (台)/month; implied ~CNY 2.39/card-hour (13,750 / 8 / 720). Series: CNY 17,500 on 2026-07-03 fell 21.4% to 13,750 by 2026-08-17; Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei 19,500 and Chengdu-Chongqing 20,500 held firmer.Street pricevia SMM (Shanghai Metals Market) computing-power price analysismedium
2024-05-24~$13.9K from ¥100,000 at 2024 avg 7.20 CNY/USD per cardReuters: 910B selling around 100,000 yuan as NVIDIA cut H20 prices to competeReported contractvia Reutersmedium
2024-02-01~$16.7K from ¥120,000 at 2024 avg 7.20 CNY/USD per cardReuters exclusive: Huawei selling 910B at around 120,000 yuan; NVIDIA H20 priced similarly to competeReported contractvia Reutershigh
2024-02~$16.7K from ¥120,000 at 2024 avg 7.20 CNY/USD per card910B ~12万 vs NVIDIA H20 launch ~11万Street pricevia 智东西 (zhidx)medium
2024~$15.3K from ¥110,000 at 2024 avg 7.20 CNY/USD per card36kr: 910B average price said to be ~11万/片; same article estimates 910C at 18-20万Street pricevia 36krlow
2023-11-07~$63.6M from ¥450,000,000 at 2023 avg 7.08 CNY/USD per 1,600-chip orderBaidu order for 1,600 910B chips (~$61.83M); order likely includes systems — implied ~281,250 CNY/chip is above bare-card street pricesReported contractvia Reutershigh

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Prices in USD, converted at each observation year's average exchange rate; the original figure and rate print under every converted price. How prices are sourced and graded ↗

Context

Notes

  • Huawei has never published an official 910B datasheet; all specs are from analyst/media reporting and cloud-provider instance documentation.
  • Memory bandwidth figures conflict across sources (392 GB/s vs ~1.6 TB/s aggregate) and were omitted.
  • Trajectory 2023→2026: ~280k implied (system order) → 120k → ~100k as supply scaled; superseded by 910C (~2025) and 950PR (~2026).

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All specs and prices link to their original sources, dated as observed. Figures are market observations, not offers; treat each as of its date.