China has taken a major leap in artificial intelligence infrastructure with the official launch of the Dawning 8000 (Dengfeng) supercluster in Zhengzhou, Henan province, on Friday. [Photo provided to chinadaily.com.cn]
China has taken a major leap in artificial intelligence infrastructure with the official launch of the Dawning 8000 (Dengfeng) supercluster in Zhengzhou, Henan province, on Friday, the country's first AI supercluster capable of supporting over 100,000 domestically developed computing cards.
The milestone, announced at the 2026 Henan Provincial Artificial Intelligence Conference, marks the transition of China's AI infrastructure from the homegrown 10,000-card era to the 100,000-card deployment stage, according to Chinese tech company Dawning Information Industry, also known as Sugon which builds and operates the AI supercluster.
The cluster has been simultaneously connected to the national supercomputing internet, a nationwide computing network which now aggregates over 3.5 million CPU cores and 250,000 GPU cards, serving more than 1.4 million registered users with over 7,300 applications, 1,500 adapted large language models and over 11.3 million visits per month on average.
