Huawei raises Ascend 950DT AI chip price 60% to 250,000 yuan

September 10, 2026 at 12:41 PM2 min

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Huawei Technologies Co. has raised the suggested price of its most advanced AI accelerator, the Ascend 950DT, by roughly 60% to 250,000 yuan ($37,300) over the past three months. The increase reflects rapidly outstripping demand during the data center boom, with DeepSeek planning to deploy at least 160,000 of the top-end accelerators in Inner Mongolia. The company is grappling with production hiccups, particularly limited supply of high-bandwidth memory.

Key Facts

Huawei raised the suggested price of its Ascend 950DT AI accelerator by roughly 60% to 250,000 yuan ($37,300) over the past three months.
DeepSeek plans to deploy at least 160,000 Ascend 950DT accelerators in a large data center project in Inner Mongolia.
Huawei's sales representatives told customers that high-bandwidth memory supply is particularly limited and pushing up costs.
Cambricon Technologies Corp. is also increasing prices by as much as 30%, according to Reuters.

Price Increase

Huawei Technologies Co. has notified some clients that it is significantly increasing the prices of its most advanced AI accelerators. The suggested price for the Ascend 950DT jumped roughly 60% to 250,000 yuan ($37,300) apiece over the past three months. That price was set in line with Nvidia Corp.'s B200, according to one of the people familiar with the matter. Both Nvidia and Huawei sell their AI processors in batches of eight or more, with pricing varying by order size and auxiliary equipment purchases.

Demand and Supply Constraints

Huawei's decision underscores growing demand for a Chinese alternative to Nvidia. DeepSeek plans to deploy at least 160,000 of the top-end accelerators in a large data center project in Inner Mongolia, potentially creating one of the largest known clusters of Huawei AI chips. Huawei's sales representatives have told customers that the supply of high-bandwidth memory is particularly limited and pushing up costs. The use of HBM in AI systems is at the root of the global memory shortage of the past year. Huawei earlier this week launched a new flagship smartphone with otherwise premium specs but limited memory.

Market Response

Reuters earlier reported the Ascend 950DT price jump and said Beijing-based Cambricon Technologies Corp. is also increasing prices by as much as 30%. Huawei did not immediately respond to an emailed request for comment. The Shenzhen-based telecom and electronics giant is prioritizing the biggest Chinese tech companies and AI infrastructure builders for deliveries of its Ascend 950DT. The company was able to manufacture somewhere in the low hundreds-of-thousands of the 950DT this year, Bloomberg News reported last week.