China unveils first 100,000-card AI supercluster hardware, showcases 10 frontier research applications - Global Times

Visitors tour the exhibition hall of Sugon 8000, China's first fully homegrown 100,000-card AI supercluster, at the 2026 World Artificial Intelligence Conference in Shanghai on July 20, 2026. Photo: VCGThe physical system of China's first artificial intelligence (AI) supercluster capable of supporting over 100,000 domestically developed computing cards, also known as Sugon 8000, debuted at the ongoing China National Annual Conference on High Performance Computing, CCTV News reported on Sunday. A 100,000-card cluster means interconnecting 100,000 AI accelerator cards at high speed. But scale is not its most impressive feature. Sugon 8000 is a computing system built explicitly around the native convergence of supercomputing and intelligent computing within a unified architecture. It can run both the highest-precision scientific computing and large model training and inference, according to CCTV News. The system marks a step toward scaling AI infrastructure construction is from the 10,000-card level to 100,000-card deployment.