TPU v7 Ironwood vs Ascend 950DT

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GPU & AI Chips · verified 24 Sept 2026

TPU v7 IronwoodGooglecurrent

HAscend 950DTHuaweicurrent

Specification	TPU v7 Ironwood	Ascend 950DT
Summary	Inference-oriented, Google Cloud only.	144GB on Huawei's own HBM, and the part China is building gigawatts around.
Memory	192GB HBM3e	144GB HiZQ 2.0
Bandwidth	7.37 TB/s	4 TB/s
Price	—	Above ¥250,000 (about $37K), reported
Vendor	Google	Huawei
Category	GPU & AI Chips	GPU & AI Chips
Official	Google ↗	Huawei ↗

Highlighted rows are where these differ.

Best for GCP inference.

4 TB/s memory bandwidth and a 2 TB/s interconnect, 2.5x the Ascend 910C
HiZQ 2.0 is Huawei's own memory standard rather than a licensed HBM3 or HBM3e part
Indicated price rose 20% to 50% in two months to September 2026, on a memory shortage
Successor Ascend 960DT pulled forward to Q1 2027, Huawei said on 17 September

Best for serving models where Nvidia cannot be bought.