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Today's Topics:
1. SuperPoDs: How Huawei plans to outperform global tech leaders
with less powerful chips (Stephen Loosley)
2. Re: Why don't telcos cut off bulk scam calls (Tom Worthington)
3. Re: Why don't telcos cut off bulk scam calls (David)
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Message: 1
Date: Sun, 21 Sep 2025 01:14:28 +0930
From: Stephen Loosley <[email protected]>
To: "link" <[email protected]>
Subject: [LINK] SuperPoDs: How Huawei plans to outperform global tech
leaders with less powerful chips
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How Huawei plans to outperform global tech leaders with less powerful chips
Updated 8:54 PM GMT+10, September 18, 2025
https://apnews.com/article/huawei-ascend-ai-chips-nvidia-superpod-1835ff00671858955f482f10122600f2
BEIJING (AP) ? China?s Huawei Technologies said Thursday that it would roll out
the world?s most powerful AI computing clusters over the next two years as it
seeks to outperform global leaders despite relying on less powerful domestic
semiconductors.
China is racing to develop its own technology as America restricts what can be
sold to China, including its most advanced chips. At the same time, the Chinese
government has reportedly told companies to stop buying some American chips as
it seeks to transform China into a global tech leader and one that is less
reliant on imported components.
Huawei, at the forefront of efforts to develop home-grown technology, said at
an annual customer event in Shanghai that it would launch new ?superpods? in
late 2026 and late 2027. That?s computer industry lingo for a group of
interconnected computers that, in Huawei?s case, combines the power of
thousands of chips.
That immense power is needed to run models in the burgeoning field of
artificial intelligence, an area of hot competition between the U.S. and China.
?This is a significant milestone,? said Charlie Dai, a technology analyst at
the research firm Forrester Research.
?It signals a stronger push toward self-reliance and resilience in the face of
export restrictions.?
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China
Huawei announced plans to release the Atlas 950 and 960 superpods over the next
two years.
Dozens of the ?SuperPoDs,? as Huawei brands them, could be connected to form
what Huawei said would be the world?s most powerful ?SuperClusters.?
The 950 and 960 are the most powerful superpods in the world and would remain
so for years to come, a company news release said, based on product road maps
from others in the industry.
The challenge for China is how to keep pace with American competitors such as
Open AI and Google without access to the world?s most powerful semiconductors,
notably those from America?s market-leading Nvidia. The answer has been to use
many more chips and develop the architecture to make them work well together.
?Our strategy is to create a new computing architecture, and develop computing
SuperPoDs and SuperClusters, to sustainably meet long-term demand for computing
power,? Eric Xu, the current rotating chairman of Huawei, told the customer
conference, according to a transcript provided by the company.
Huawei, based in Shenzhen in southern China, also announced plans to launch new
AI chips in its Ascend series over the next three years. The Atlas 950 and 960
superpods would be based on the Ascend 950 and 960 chips, due out in 2026 and
2027. A planned Ascend 970 chip could follow in 2028.
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Message: 2
Date: Sun, 21 Sep 2025 08:36:32 +1000
From: Tom Worthington <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [LINK] Why don't telcos cut off bulk scam calls
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On 9/19/25 16:45, David wrote:
> On Friday, 19 September 2025 10:41:13 AEST Tom Worthington wrote:
>> I don't see why the telcos could not detect and stop this.
>
> But how? If all banks ...
Not, banks, telcos. They could identify scammers, by flagging large
numbers of very short calls coming from the same source.
The parliament could give them legal protection to block these, if they
don't already have it. Of course there would be an exception to allow
Clive Palmer to send us political speeches. ;-)
> ... configure a white-list of acceptable calling numbers ...
Yes, I could configure a white list. But that doesn't help where the
sender blocks their number or uses a large bank of numbers.
--
Tom Worthington http://www.tomw.net.au
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Message: 3
Date: Sun, 21 Sep 2025 10:40:23 +1000
From: David <[email protected]>
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Subject: Re: [LINK] Why don't telcos cut off bulk scam calls
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On Sunday, 21 September 2025 08:36:32 AEST Tom Worthington wrote:
>> But how? If all banks ...
> Not, banks, telcos. They could identify scammers, by flagging large numbers
> of very short calls coming from the same source.
Whoops, you're right, I happened to be thinking about banks at the time!
But it's also true that doing things on a bigger scale (telcos instead of
banks) might be more difficult and less reliable.
>> ... configure a white-list of acceptable calling numbers ...
> Yes, I could configure a white list. But that doesn't help where the sender
> blocks their number or uses a large bank of numbers.
I think the idea is to white-list your _approved_ calling numbers and
unconditionally reject everything else. If an approved caller initiates calls
from a PABX, these can be handled by using wild cards.
Of course the ATA normally connects to a router, and all VoIP calls from a
given country can be blocked there before they even reach your ATA.
_DavidL_
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