On May 26, the China Information Technology Security Evaluation Center and the National Security and Confidentiality Technology Evaluation Center jointly released the „2026 No. 2 Security and Reliability Evaluation Results Announcement.“ Nine domestically produced AI training and inference chips passed the evaluation, all receiving Level I certification, effective immediately for three years. The chips and their submitting units are: Huawei HiSilicon’s Ascend 310 and Ascend 910, Alibaba Pingtouge’s Zhenwu M530 and Zhenwu M890, Biren Technology’s Biren™ 166, Haiguang Information’s DCU-3G, Tianshu Zhixin’s KCC-V100X, Muxi Integrated Circuit’s MXC600, and Moore Threads’ PH100. This certification marks the first time that the Chinese government procurement system has included AI training and inference chips in a „security and reliability“ catalog, meaning that these nine products are now officially eligible for procurement in Party, government, military, and critical information infrastructure sectors, replacing overseas chips such as those from NVIDIA.
The same announcement also covered 23 domestic database products, including Dameng Database, OceanBase, Huawei GaussDB, Alibaba Cloud PolarDB and AnalyticDB, covering both centralized and distributed versions. Among the chip list, the Ascend series has attracted the most attention due to Huawei’s complete software and hardware ecosystem. The inclusion of emerging vendors such as Biren 166, Muxi MXC600, and Moore Threads PH100 indicates that China’s AI chip supplier landscape is evolving away from sole reliance on Huawei toward a more diversified structure. Haiguang’s DCU-3G continues its route of localized replacement of x86 GPU architecture in high-performance computing.
China Information Technology Security Evaluation Center | Tom’s Hardware