# Huawei Cloud: physical AI company

Canonical ID: `5c5c1d6d-90e3-4bc7-8eb3-03fac08da003`

## Key facts

- **Parent company:** Huawei Technologies (private, employee-owned; $118.2B group revenue in 2024)
- **Global footprint:** 34 regions, 103 availability zones, service in 170+ countries; 3 liquid-cooled AI computing centers disclosed
- **AI silicon:** Huawei Ascend 910B and 910C (in-house); no Nvidia H100/H200/B200 due to US export controls
- **Flagship AI rack:** CloudMatrix 384: 384 Ascend 910C chips across 16 racks, ~300 PFLOPs dense BF16, 3.6x GB200 NVL72 aggregate memory
- **Ascend die supply:** ~1.05 million Ascend 910C dies delivered by TSMC across 2024-2025 per SemiAnalysis; Huawei has not publicly disclosed its own inventory
- **Power profile:** CloudMatrix 384 draws ~4.1x the power of an Nvidia GB200 NVL72 per SemiAnalysis; total operational MW not disclosed by Huawei
- **Enterprise customers:** 2,600+ enterprises on the platform per Huawei Cloud's own disclosure
- **Anchor tenant / internal use:** Huawei's PanGu foundation-model program trained on Ascend 910 clusters
- **US sanctions status:** Parent Huawei on US Entity List since 2019; blocks access to Nvidia top-end GPUs and leading-edge foundry capacity
- **Positioning:** Hyperscaler both training and inference; #2 IaaS in China behind Alibaba Cloud; overseas push in Middle East, SE Asia, LatAm, Africa
- **Public status:** Private; wholly owned by Huawei Technologies, itself employee-owned and unlisted
- **Hourly rental pricing:** Not publicly disclosed in Western coverage; Ascend instance pricing is quoted per project in-region rather than as a standard on-demand US-dollar rate

- **Slug:** huawei-cloud
- **Status:** active
- **Founded:** 2017
- **HQ:** Shenzhen, China

## Models

_No models registered._

## Current leadership (2)

- [Zhang Ping'an](/people/zhang-pingan.md) CEO, Huawei Cloud (and Huawei board director) (_reported, not verified_)
- [Ren Zhengfei](/people/ren-zhengfei.md) Founder and CEO, Huawei Technologies (parent) (_reported, not verified_)

## Supplies to

_No verified supply relationships on file. Supply-chain coverage is being added across the registry; check back as the seed populates this company's outbound edges._

_Outbound supply edges. Each appears when verified with at least two strong sources. Sources are append-only; corrections add new sources rather than rewrite history._

## Common questions

### What is Huawei Cloud?

Huawei Cloud is the public-cloud arm of Huawei Technologies, spun up as a dedicated business unit in 2017 and now operating 34 regions and 103 availability zones serving customers in more than 170 countries. Unlike the pure-play neocloud pack, it is a hyperscaler-scale operation embedded inside a $118 billion telecoms-equipment parent, and its differentiator is silicon: because Huawei has been on the US Entity List since 2019 and cut off from Nvidia's top-end accelerators, its AI cloud runs almost entirely on the in-house Ascend line (910B and, since 2025, 910C) rather than H100/H200/B200.

### What does Huawei Cloud make?

Huawei Cloud has no robot models recorded on the DEPLOY registry. Huawei Cloud builds physical robots.

### Is Huawei Cloud publicly traded?

Huawei Cloud is not independently listed on public markets; it is part of Huawei Technologies on the DEPLOY registry.

### How can I invest in Huawei Cloud?

Huawei Cloud has no separately traded stock; it is owned by Huawei Technologies (the parent is the entity that trades, where it is public).

### Where is Huawei Cloud headquartered?

Huawei Cloud is headquartered in Shenzhen, China.

### Who owns Huawei Cloud?

Huawei Cloud is owned by Huawei Technologies, per the DEPLOY registry.

### Is Huawei Cloud a top robotics company?

On DEPLOY's intelligence score, which blends verified deployments, funding, hiring, media, safety, and IP signals, Huawei Cloud ranks in roughly the top 100% of companies tracked by the registry.

### When was Huawei Cloud founded?

Huawei Cloud was founded in 2017.


## Sources (4)

1. https://www.huaweicloud.com/intl/en-us/about/
2. https://newsletter.semianalysis.com/p/huawei-ai-cloudmatrix-384-chinas-answer-to-nvidia-gb200-nvl72
3. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huawei
4. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huawei_PanGu

## The verified answers

- [Which companies have the most robots deployed](/which-companies-have-the-most-robots-deployed.md)
- [Which operators run the most robots](/which-operators-run-the-most-robots.md)
- [Which robot operators cover the most countries](/which-robot-operators-cover-the-most-countries.md)

_API: GET /v1/companies/5c5c1d6d-90e3-4bc7-8eb3-03fac08da003 · canonical URL: /companies/huawei-cloud_