Head to head

Huawei Ascend 910C vs Groq LPU

Huawei Ascend 910C (Huawei) and Groq LPU (Groq) both sit in Chips & Compute. Every value below comes from the latest crawl of the vendors' own pages.

Attribute	Huawei Ascend 910C Huawei	Groq LPU Groq
Segment	Chips & Compute	Chips & Compute
Version	Ascend 910C	LPU
Entry cost	Pricing is not publicly available (enterprise hardware)	Pricing not published. Contact sales or check account console for usage-based rates.
Pricing tiers	—	GroqCloud Console Free Tier / Pay-As-You-Go free
Model stack	Ascend 910C · CANN / MindSpore	canopylabs/orpheus-arabic-saudi · canopylabs/orpheus-v1-english · kimi-k2-instruct-0905 · Llama / Kimi / GPT-OSS · Llama 3.1 8B Instant · Llama 3.3 70B Versatile · LPU v2 · meta-llama/llama-4-maverick-17b-128e-instruct · meta-llama/llama-4-scout-17b-16e-instruct · minimax-m2.5 · minimax/minimax-m2.5 · minimaxai/minimax-m2.5 · moonshotai/kimi-k2-instruct-0905 · openai/gpt-oss-120b · openai/gpt-oss-20b · openai/gpt-oss-safeguard-20b · Orpheus English · orpheus-arabic-saudi · orpheus-v1-english · Qwen 3.6 27B · qwen/qwen3-vl-32b-instruct · qwen3-vl-32b-instruct · Whisper V3 Large · whisper-large-v3
Context window	—	131k
Public API
Routes models
Changes / 30d	4	4
Origin	China	Global
Capabilities	dual-die 910C, CloudMatrix 384 racks, CANN toolkit, MindSpore, CANN 异构计算架构, MindSpore AI框架, MindStudio 全流程工具链, NPU	deterministic latency, OpenAI-compatible API, open-model catalogue, batch API, Fast LLM inference, OpenAI Compatibility, Prompt Caching, Speech to Text

Huawei Ascend 910C

Domestic training and inference silicon with the CANN/MindSpore stack and CloudMatrix racks.

SRAM-based language processing units sold as a token-priced inference cloud.