Huawei

Hardware

Chinese telecom and devices conglomerate building Ascend AI accelerators and the CANN heterogeneous computing stack.

Total funding—
Valuation—
Employees213,000
Founded1987
HeadquartersShenzhen, China
StatusPrivate
huawei.com

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AMDPublic · $785.1BAtlas and AMD Instinct do comparable work on accelerator silicon and model training; both also serve buyers who need to buy data-centre AI compute; larger scale (public).8 of 9 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareDell TechnologiesPublic · $360.7BAtlas 650E AI Server and Dell PowerEdge XE9685L do comparable work on AI compute hardware, model training and server systems; both also serve buyers who need to buy data-centre AI compute; larger scale (public).5 of 9 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareIntelPublic · $463.7BAtlas and Intel Gaudi AI Accelerator do comparable work on accelerator silicon and model training; both also serve buyers who need to buy data-centre AI compute; larger scale (public).4 of 9 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareQualcommPublic · $174.9BAtlas and Qualcomm Cloud AI 100 Ultra do comparable work on accelerator silicon; both also serve buyers who need to buy data-centre AI compute; Huawei's scale not recorded.5 of 9 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareAxelera AIPrivate · $450M raisedAtlas and Axelera Metis AIPU do comparable work on accelerator silicon; both also serve buyers who need to buy data-centre AI compute; Huawei's scale not recorded.3 of 9 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareUnslothPrivateMindSpore and Unsloth do comparable work on model training; both also serve buyers who need to run an open-weight model on your own infrastructure, serve a model in production and train or fine-tune a model; scale not recorded for either.2 of 9 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareCiscoPublic · $433.3BAtlas 950 SuperPoD and Cisco Nexus Hyperfabric AI do comparable work on AI compute hardware, interconnect, model training and 1 more; both also serve buyers who need to buy data-centre AI compute and connect AI clusters; larger scale (public).7 of 9 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareGraphcorePrivateAtlas and IPU (Intelligence Processing Unit) do comparable work on accelerator silicon and model training; both also serve buyers who need to buy data-centre AI compute; scale not recorded for either.4 of 9 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareArista NetworksPublic · $246.4BAtlas 950 SuperPoD and 7060X5 Series do comparable work on AI compute hardware and interconnect; both also serve buyers who need to buy data-centre AI compute and connect AI clusters; Huawei's scale not recorded.2 of 9 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareCerebras SystemsPublic · $44.4BAtlas and Cerebras WSE-3 Turbo (WSE-3T) do comparable work on accelerator silicon and model training; both also serve buyers who need to buy data-centre AI compute; smaller scale (public).3 of 9 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareGroqPrivate · $3.5BAtlas and Groq LPU (GroqChip) do comparable work on accelerator silicon; both also serve buyers who need to buy data-centre AI compute; smaller scale (private).2 of 9 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareHailo TechnologiesAcquired ($340M deal)MindIE and Hailo AI Software Suite both serve buyers who need to run an open-weight model on your own infrastructure and serve a model in production; Huawei's scale not recorded; Hailo Technologies is acquired, with no independent scale.3 of 9 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareTenstorrentPrivate · $2.6BAtlas and Blackhole do comparable work on accelerator silicon; both also serve buyers who need to buy data-centre AI compute; smaller scale (private).4 of 9 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareSambaNovaPrivate · $11BAtlas and SambaNova RDU do comparable work on accelerator silicon; both also serve buyers who need to buy data-centre AI compute; smaller scale (private).4 of 9 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareBroadcomPublic · $1.7TAtlas and Broadcom custom silicon do comparable work on accelerator silicon; both also serve buyers who need to buy data-centre AI compute; larger scale (public).2 of 9 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareMarvell TechnologyPublic · $214.9BAtlas 950 SuperPoD and Marvell OCTEON DPU do comparable work on interconnect; both also serve buyers who need to buy data-centre AI compute and connect AI clusters; Huawei's scale not recorded.2 of 9 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareCrusoePrivate · $10BAtlas 650E AI Server and Crusoe Spark do comparable work on AI compute hardware and server systems; both also serve buyers who need to buy data-centre AI compute; smaller scale (private).6 of 9 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareSK HynixPublic · $874.5BAtlas 650E AI Server and HBM3E do comparable work on AI compute hardware and model training; both also serve buyers who need to buy data-centre AI compute; larger scale (public).3 of 9 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareKioxiaPublic · $177.9BAtlas 650E AI Server and KIOXIA CM9-V Series do comparable work on AI compute hardware; both also serve buyers who need to buy data-centre AI compute; Huawei's scale not recorded.1 of 9 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareDecartPrivate · $4BCANN and Decart Optimization Stack do comparable work on GPU programming and model training; both also serve buyers who need to program GPU accelerators, run an open-weight model on your own infrastructure, serve a model in production and 1 more; smaller scale (private); ships API service, application and 2 more rather than the same layer.4 of 9 capabilitiesDifferent layerCompareModularAcquired ($3.1B deal)MindStudio and Mojo do comparable work on GPU programming; both also serve buyers who need to program GPU accelerators; Huawei's scale not recorded; Modular is acquired, with no independent scale.3 of 9 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareSamsung ElectronicsPublic · $1.2TAtlas 650E AI Server and Samsung Datacenter SSD do comparable work on AI compute hardware; both also serve buyers who need to buy data-centre AI compute; larger scale (public).2 of 9 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareOllamaPrivate · $88M raisedMindIE and Ollama do comparable work on model hosting; both also serve buyers who need to run an open-weight model on your own infrastructure and serve a model in production; Huawei's scale not recorded; ships infrastructure service and model API rather than the same layer.2 of 9 capabilitiesDifferent layerCompareBaiduPublic · $31.6BMindSpore and PaddlePaddle do comparable work on model training; both also serve buyers who need to run an open-weight model on your own infrastructure, serve a model in production and train or fine-tune a model; smaller scale (public).2 of 9 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareHorizon RoboticsPublic · $8.8BAtlas and Journey 6 Series do comparable work on accelerator silicon; both also serve buyers who need to buy data-centre AI compute; smaller scale (public).3 of 9 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareCredo Technology GroupPublicAtlas 950 SuperPoD and ZeroFlap / OmniConnect do comparable work on interconnect; both also serve buyers who need to connect AI clusters; scale not recorded for either.1 of 9 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareAstera LabsPublic · $50.4BAtlas 950 SuperPoD and Aries Smart Cable Modules do comparable work on interconnect; both also serve buyers who need to connect AI clusters; smaller scale (public).1 of 9 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareAyar LabsPrivate · $3.8BAtlas 950 SuperPoD and TeraPHY do comparable work on interconnect; both also serve buyers who need to connect AI clusters; smaller scale (private).1 of 9 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareLightmatterPrivate · $4.4BAtlas 950 SuperPoD and Passage do comparable work on interconnect; both also serve buyers who need to connect AI clusters; smaller scale (private).1 of 9 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareRanovusPrivateAtlas 950 SuperPoD and Odin do comparable work on interconnect; both also serve buyers who need to connect AI clusters; scale not recorded for either.1 of 9 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareRunPodPrivateMindIE and Runpod Hub do comparable work on model hosting; both also serve buyers who need to serve a model in production; scale not recorded for either.4 of 9 capabilitiesShared product typeCompare4ParadigmPublic · $2BAtlas 650E AI Server and 4Paradigm SageOne do comparable work on server systems; both also serve buyers who need to buy data-centre AI compute; smaller scale (public).3 of 9 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareThinking Machines LabPrivate · $12BMindSpore and Tinker do comparable work on model training; both also serve buyers who need to serve a model in production and train or fine-tune a model; smaller scale (private); ships API service rather than the same layer.2 of 9 capabilitiesDifferent layerCompareApplied MaterialsPublic · $380.7BAtlas and SEMVision H20 do comparable work on model training; both also serve buyers who need to buy data-centre AI compute; larger scale (public).2 of 9 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareLambdaPrivate · $1.5B raisedMindIE and Lambda Inference do comparable work on model hosting; both also serve buyers who need to serve a model in production; Huawei's scale not recorded; ships infrastructure service and model API rather than the same layer.4 of 9 capabilitiesDifferent layerCompareNebius GroupPublic · $61.6BMindIE and Nebius Token Factory do comparable work on model hosting; both also serve buyers who need to serve a model in production; smaller scale (public).4 of 9 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareAlibabaPublic · $273.4BMindSpore and ModelScope do comparable work on model training; both also serve buyers who need to run an open-weight model on your own infrastructure, serve a model in production and train or fine-tune a model; larger scale (public); ships AI agent, API service and 4 more rather than the same layer.4 of 9 capabilitiesDifferent layerCompareBasetenPrivate · $13BMindSpore and Baseten do comparable work on model training; both also serve buyers who need to serve a model in production and train or fine-tune a model; smaller scale (private); ships API service, infrastructure service and 2 more rather than the same layer.3 of 9 capabilitiesDifferent layerCompareAlphabet (Google)Public · $4.2TAtlas and Google Cloud TPU do comparable work on accelerator silicon and model training; both also serve buyers who need to buy data-centre AI compute; larger scale (public).5 of 9 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareFireworks AIPrivate · $17.5BMindIE and Fireworks Inference do comparable work on model hosting; both also serve buyers who need to serve a model in production; smaller scale (private); ships API service and model API rather than the same layer.3 of 9 capabilitiesDifferent layerCompareAmazonPublic · $2.8TAtlas and AWS Trainium do comparable work on accelerator silicon and model training; both also serve buyers who need to buy data-centre AI compute; larger scale (public).6 of 9 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareModalPrivate · $466M raisedMindIE and Modal Inference do comparable work on model hosting; both also serve buyers who need to serve a model in production; Huawei's scale not recorded.3 of 9 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareOraclePublic · $454.4BMindSpore and OCI Data Science do comparable work on model training; both also serve buyers who need to serve a model in production and train or fine-tune a model; larger scale (public).3 of 9 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareTogether AIPrivate · $8.3BMindIE and Together Dedicated Container Inference do comparable work on model hosting; both also serve buyers who need to serve a model in production; smaller scale (private).3 of 9 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareLiquid AIPrivateMindSpore and LEAP do comparable work on model training; both also serve buyers who need to serve a model in production and train or fine-tune a model; scale not recorded for either; ships application and platform rather than the same layer.2 of 9 capabilitiesDifferent layerCompareArm HoldingsPublic · $282.8BAtlas and Arm CSS for Mobile 2 do comparable work on accelerator silicon; larger scale (public).3 of 9 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareKakao EnterprisePrivateMindIE and Kubeflow do comparable work on model hosting; both also serve buyers who need to serve a model in production; scale not recorded for either.4 of 9 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareComet MLPrivate · $70M raisedMindSpore and Comet Artifacts do comparable work on model training; both also serve buyers who need to train or fine-tune a model; Huawei's scale not recorded.2 of 9 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareHuawei CloudPrivateMindSpore and Huawei HiLens do comparable work on model training; both also serve buyers who need to serve a model in production and train or fine-tune a model; scale not recorded for either.4 of 9 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareHugging FacePrivate · $4.5BMindIE and Spaces do comparable work on model hosting; both also serve buyers who need to serve a model in production; smaller scale (private); ships API service, application and 2 more rather than the same layer.4 of 9 capabilitiesDifferent layerCompareCactus ComputePrivateMindSpore and Cactus Platform do comparable work on model training; both also serve buyers who need to train or fine-tune a model; scale not recorded for either; ships infrastructure service and platform rather than the same layer.2 of 9 capabilitiesDifferent layerCompareReplicatePrivateMindIE and Replicate do comparable work on model hosting; both also serve buyers who need to serve a model in production; scale not recorded for either; ships infrastructure service rather than the same layer.2 of 9 capabilitiesDifferent layerCompareEleutherAINonprofitMindSpore and GPT-NeoX do comparable work on model training; both also serve buyers who need to train or fine-tune a model; Huawei's scale not recorded; EleutherAI is a nonprofit, with no independent scale.2 of 9 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareGitLabPublic · $8.3BMindIE and GitLab Duo Agent Platform Self-Hosted do comparable work on model hosting; both also serve buyers who need to run an open-weight model on your own infrastructure and serve a model in production; smaller scale (public).2 of 9 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareCoreWeavePublic · $48.5BMindSpore and CoreWeave AI Cloud do comparable work on model training; both also serve buyers who need to serve a model in production and train or fine-tune a model; smaller scale (public); ships AI agent, infrastructure service and 1 more rather than the same layer.3 of 9 capabilitiesDifferent layerCompareNAVER CloudPrivateMindSpore and AiTEMS do comparable work on model training; both also serve buyers who need to serve a model in production and train or fine-tune a model; scale not recorded for either; ships API service, application and 1 more rather than the same layer.3 of 9 capabilitiesDifferent layerCompareTencentPublic · $510.1BMindSpore and Tencent Cloud TI Platform do comparable work on model training; both also serve buyers who need to serve a model in production and train or fine-tune a model; larger scale (public).3 of 9 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareDatabricksPrivate · $190BMindSpore and Databricks Model Training do comparable work on model training; both also serve buyers who need to train or fine-tune a model; Huawei's scale not recorded.4 of 9 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareWeights & BiasesAcquiredMindIE and W&B Serverless Inference do comparable work on model hosting; both also serve buyers who need to serve a model in production; Huawei's scale not recorded; Weights & Biases is acquired, with no independent scale.4 of 9 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareKuaishouPublic · $18.6BMindSpore and Vanchin do comparable work on model training; both also serve buyers who need to serve a model in production and train or fine-tune a model; smaller scale (public).3 of 9 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareSenseTimePublic · $7.7BMindSpore and SenseCore do comparable work on model training; both also serve buyers who need to serve a model in production and train or fine-tune a model; smaller scale (public).4 of 9 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareLM StudioPrivateMindIE and LM Studio do comparable work on model hosting; both also serve buyers who need to serve a model in production; scale not recorded for either; ships AI agent and application rather than the same layer.2 of 9 capabilitiesDifferent layerCompareCore42PrivateAtlas 650E AI Server and Core42 Sovereign AI Cloud do comparable work on AI compute hardware; both also serve buyers who need to buy data-centre AI compute; scale not recorded for either; ships API service and infrastructure service rather than the same layer.2 of 9 capabilitiesDifferent layerCompareVercelPrivate · $9.3BMindIE and Vercel AI Gateway do comparable work on model hosting; both also serve buyers who need to serve a model in production; smaller scale (private).3 of 9 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareCoherePrivate · $7BMindIE and Model Vault do comparable work on model hosting; both also serve buyers who need to serve a model in production; smaller scale (private); ships API service, application and 2 more rather than the same layer.2 of 9 capabilitiesDifferent layerCompareASMLPublic · $670.1BAtlas and ASML DUV lithography systems both serve buyers who need to buy data-centre AI compute; larger scale (public).Shared product typeCompareTSMCPublic · $2TAtlas and TSMC 3DFabric both serve buyers who need to buy data-centre AI compute; larger scale (public).Shared product typeCompareYandexPublicMindSpore and Yandex DataSphere do comparable work on model training; both also serve buyers who need to serve a model in production and train or fine-tune a model; scale not recorded for either.3 of 9 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareMicrosoftPublic · $3.7TMindSpore and Azure Machine Learning do comparable work on model training; both also serve buyers who need to train or fine-tune a model; larger scale (public).4 of 9 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareLabelboxPrivate · $189M raisedMindIE and Labelbox Foundry both serve buyers who need to serve a model in production; Huawei's scale not recorded.3 of 9 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareVMwareAcquiredMindIE and VMware Cloud Foundation Private AI Services do comparable work on model hosting; both also serve buyers who need to serve a model in production; Huawei's scale not recorded; VMware is acquired, with no independent scale; ships infrastructure service rather than the same layer.3 of 9 capabilitiesDifferent layerCompareHumainPrivateMindSpore and HUMAIN COMPUTE do comparable work on model training; both also serve buyers who need to serve a model in production and train or fine-tune a model; scale not recorded for either; ships API service, agent platform and 1 more rather than the same layer.2 of 9 capabilitiesDifferent layerCompareMeta PlatformsPublic · $1.5TMindIE and Meta Model API do comparable work on model hosting; both also serve buyers who need to serve a model in production; larger scale (public); ships AI agent, agent platform and 2 more rather than the same layer.2 of 9 capabilitiesDifferent layerCompareCivitaiPrivate · $5.1M raisedMindIE and Civitai API do comparable work on model hosting; both also serve buyers who need to serve a model in production; Huawei's scale not recorded; ships API service and platform rather than the same layer.2 of 9 capabilitiesDifferent layerCompareTuringPrivate · $2.2BMindSpore and RL environments do comparable work on model training; both also serve buyers who need to train or fine-tune a model; smaller scale (private); ships agent platform and data service rather than the same layer.2 of 9 capabilitiesDifferent layerCompareIBMPublic · $216.6BMindSpore and IBM watsonx.ai do comparable work on model training; both also serve buyers who need to serve a model in production and train or fine-tune a model; Huawei's scale not recorded.3 of 9 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareAI21 LabsPrivate · $1.4BMindSpore and AI21 Post-Training do comparable work on model training; both also serve buyers who need to train or fine-tune a model; smaller scale (private); ships API service, agent platform and 2 more rather than the same layer.2 of 9 capabilitiesDifferent layerCompareUiPathPublic · $7.2BMindSpore and UiPath AI Center do comparable work on model training; smaller scale (public).2 of 9 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareFalPrivateMindIE and fal Serverless do comparable work on model hosting; both also serve buyers who need to serve a model in production; scale not recorded for either; ships AI agent, infrastructure service and 1 more rather than the same layer.2 of 9 capabilitiesDifferent layerCompareMistral AIPrivate · $13.8BMindSpore and Mistral Forge do comparable work on model training; both also serve buyers who need to train or fine-tune a model; smaller scale (private); ships AI agent, API service and 3 more rather than the same layer.2 of 9 capabilitiesDifferent layerCompareElasticPublic · $10.2BMindIE and Elastic Inference Service do comparable work on model hosting; both also serve buyers who need to serve a model in production; smaller scale (public); ships agent platform, application and 2 more rather than the same layer.3 of 9 capabilitiesDifferent layerCompareSiemensPublic · $244.7BMindSpore and Rapidminer AI Studio do comparable work on model training; both also serve buyers who need to train or fine-tune a model; Huawei's scale not recorded; ships AI agent, application and 1 more rather than the same layer.3 of 9 capabilitiesDifferent layerCompareTolokaPrivateMindSpore and Toloka Train do comparable work on model training; both also serve buyers who need to train or fine-tune a model; scale not recorded for either; ships AI agent, data service and 1 more rather than the same layer.2 of 9 capabilitiesDifferent layerCompareHeliconeAcquiredMindIE and Helicone AI Gateway do comparable work on model hosting; Huawei's scale not recorded; Helicone is acquired, with no independent scale; ships API service and platform rather than the same layer.2 of 9 capabilitiesDifferent layerCompareInsilico MedicinePublic · $4.3BMindSpore and Chemistry42 do comparable work on model training; both also serve buyers who need to train or fine-tune a model; smaller scale (public).2 of 9 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareSchneider ElectricPublic · $200.4BAtlas 650E AI Server and NetShelter Power Rack 800VDC do comparable work on AI compute hardware; Huawei's scale not recorded.2 of 9 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareNeo4jPrivate · $2BMindSpore and Neo4j Graph Data Science do comparable work on model training; both also serve buyers who need to train or fine-tune a model; smaller scale (private); ships agent platform, application and 1 more rather than the same layer.1 of 9 capabilitiesDifferent layerCompareSnorkel AIPrivate · $1.3BMindSpore and Snorkel Flow do comparable work on model training; both also serve buyers who need to train or fine-tune a model; smaller scale (private); ships agent platform, data service and 1 more rather than the same layer.1 of 9 capabilitiesDifferent layerCompareRunwayPrivate · $5.3BCANN and Runway Video Model Licensing do comparable work on model training; smaller scale (private).1 of 9 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareBlack Forest LabsPrivate · $3.3BMindSpore and Open Weights Licensing do comparable work on model training; both also serve buyers who need to train or fine-tune a model; smaller scale (private); ships application, infrastructure service and 1 more rather than the same layer.1 of 9 capabilitiesDifferent layerCompare

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Employees

Company disclosure · 23 Sep 2026

Huawei's corporate-information page: "We have approximately 213,000 employees and we operate in more than 170 countries and regions". Stated directly, replacing a figure derived from the R&D share. Huawei is employee-held and carries no market valuation.

Founded

Wikipedia · 29 Aug 2026

Founded September 1987 in Shenzhen.

Revenue (TTM)

Regulatory filing · 31 Dec 2025

Huawei 2025 Annual Report, five-year financial highlights: 2025 revenue USD 126,018 million (CNY 880,941 million), "converted into United States dollars ("USD") using the closing rate at the end of 2025 of USD1.00 = CNY6.9906". The stored USD 125.8B did not follow from that rate.

Description

Official documentation · 6 Sep 2026

"The largest AI-silicon programme outside the US" carries no metric and no date, and Huawei's own Ascend site makes no size or ranking claim at all — it names CANN as the "heterogeneous computing architecture", which is what the sentence now says.

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