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DeepSeek Is Reportedly Building Its Own AI Inference Chip

DeepSeek has quietly been hiring chip-design engineers and holding talks with foundry and memory partners to build its own inference chip, a push to reduce reliance on both Nvidia and Huawei as it scales toward an IPO.

Jul 18, 2026
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Huawei-Led Team Post-Trains DeepSeek's 1.6-Trillion-Parameter Model on Ascend Chips, Not Nvidia

A research group including Huawei completed full-parameter post-training of DeepSeek's 1.6-trillion-parameter V4-Pro model using a cluster of at least 1,000 Huawei Ascend 910C chips -- demonstrating that a frontier-scale Chinese model can be trained end-to-end on domestic silicon. It's a milestone in China's drive to break free of US chips and the CUDA ecosystem.

Jun 20, 2026