Huawei projects shipping approximately 1.5 million AI chips in 2026, a volume roughly double its 2025 shipments, according to The Wall Street Journal. This comes as the company spent 22% of its revenue, or $28 billion, on R&D last year, employing over 114,000 R&D staff.
Huawei's domestic AI chip production and deployment are scaling rapidly, indicating China's increasing self-sufficiency in AI compute supply.