Sept 17 — At Huawei Connect 2026 in Shanghai, Huawei unveiled Hi-ONE, a
new-generation Near-Packaged Optics (NPO) optical interconnect. Vice chairman
and rotating chairman Wang Tao said the product is designed to enable multi‑NPU
coordination via high‑speed interconnect. Huawei said Hi-ONE, built on its
proprietary technologies with a balanced
optics/mechanics/electronics/magnetics/thermal design, delivers 7.2T
transmission capacity per engine. Huawei claims Hi-ONE is the industry’s first
mass‑produced NPO, the current market leader in NPO transmission capacity, and
the only NPO to integrate a built‑in light source.