HiSilicon (Huawei)
Huawei's fabless design arm behind Ascend and Kirin
HiSilicon is Huawei's in-house chip-design subsidiary responsible for the Ascend AI accelerators, Kirin mobile SoCs and networking silicon. Cut off from TSMC and EDA leaders by US controls, it re-engineered its designs for SMIC manufacturing and domestic EDA, becoming the design brain of China's AI-hardware self-sufficiency drive.
Products
Ascend, Kirin
How it fits the stack
HiSilicon (Huawei) with what it depends on (above) and what it feeds (below). The figure renders as a crawlable diagram and upgrades to an interactive 3D graph as it scrolls into view.
HiSilicon (Huawei) in the AI stack. HiSilicon (Huawei) with its immediate upstream dependencies (top) and downstream dependents (bottom) in the AI value chain. Hover a node in 3D, or read the full relationships below.
Graph data (text) — 4 entities, 3 relationships
- HiSilicon (Huawei) —uses→ Empyrean / domestic EDA
- HiSilicon (Huawei) —designs→ Huawei Ascend (910B/910C)
- HiSilicon (Huawei) —designs→ SMIC (Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp)
Context — capital, rivals, policy · · 2