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Jim Zemlin, CEO, Linux Foundation Adoption of open source AI now powers every layer of modern computing infrastructure, Linux Foundation Executive Director Jim Zemlin stated during his keynote address at Huawei Connect. Speaking a decade after his first appearance at the event, Zemlin highlighted how shared code has grown from running 80 percent of enterprise systems to underpinning 98 percent of global software applications today.

Huawei Atlas 950 SuperPoD cabinets in a liquid-cooled data hall, the current generation before the Ascend 960 SuperPoD Shanghai: Huawei opened Huawei Connect 2026 on Wednesday with a keynote by Deputy Chairman and Rotating Chairman Wang Tao titled “Intelligence Ignites the New Future: Building the Silicon Black Soil of the Intelligent World,” in which the company unveiled the Ascend 960 SuperPoD, the first AI computing system in the industry built on near-packaged optics (NPO), and confirmed...

At Huawei Connect 2026 in Shanghai, enterprise engineers gathered to see the next generation of accelerated computing hardware. Global technology company Huawei announced its Ascend 960 SuperPoD alongside an upgraded UnifiedBus interconnect standard. The new architecture addresses demanding token throughput requirements for large neural networks. The Ascend 960 SuperPoD serves as a high-density compute cluster engineered for massive training jobs.