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iFlytek Spark

Speech-AI champion running fully on Huawei Ascend

iFlytek, China's speech-recognition leader, ships the Spark (Xinghuo) LLM family and is notable for training and serving entirely on Huawei Ascend hardware after being placed on the US Entity List. It is a flagship case of a Chinese AI company operating in a fully domestic, Nvidia-free compute stack.

Compute

100% Huawei Ascend

Status

US Entity List

How it fits the stack

iFlytek Spark 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.

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iFlytek SparkDepends on ↑

iFlytek Spark in the AI stack. iFlytek Spark 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.

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  • iFlytek SparkusesHuawei Ascend (910B/910C)