Chinese tech giant Huawei's  founder and president Ren Zhengfei has noted that the world is heading toward a future marked not by a shortage of computing power, but by an overabundance of it.

The prediction was revealed in newly released minutes from his recent discussion with ICPC leadership, coaches and award-winning participants.

Responding to a question about computing resources, Ren stated bluntly: “In the future, computing power will be excessive, not insufficient as you might imagine.” He argued that building hundreds or even thousands of large AI models is a valid and necessary form of technological exploration.

Ren referenced Huawei’s work on “super nodes,” which includes systems labeled 950, 960 and 970. But he emphasized that questions such as “How many ‘970s’ do we need?”, “Where will they be used?”, and “How should clusters be connected?” are matters of linear technological projection—advances he believes are guaranteed to happen.

What remains uncertain, he said, is whether market demand will follow a linear pattern as well. “What if it turns out to be nonlinear?” Ren asked, suggesting that computing power supply may eventually outpace growth in demand.

Because of this, Ren concluded, “an era of surplus computing power is bound to arrive.”