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DeepSeek plans 160,000 Huawei AI chips for Inner Mongolia hub
The Economic Times··5 Sept
DeepSeek plans to deploy at least 160,000 Huawei accelerators at a data centre in Inner Mongolia, people familiar with the matter said. The startup intends to use Huawei's next-generation Ascend 950DT chips to run models, though installation timing depends on Huawei production capacity. If completed, the hub would rank among the largest known clusters of Huawei AI chips.
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What It Means For You
- DeepSeek's Inner Mongolia hub would advance China's effort to replace Nvidia accelerators for AI workloads.
- Huawei production caps 950DT output at low hundreds of thousands this year, one source said.
- Fulfilling DeepSeek's order could take more than a year, the people said.
What's Happening
- DeepSeek does not currently plan to use 950DT chips for training, one person said.
- The startup has so far relied on Nvidia accelerators for training its models.
- DeepSeek is in talks to raise billions of dollars to build out infrastructure.
China's Push Beyond Nvidia Chips
- More than 100,000 chips in one facility would match scale of Western AI data centres.
- Nvidia accelerators remain the global standard but face US export restrictions on China sales.
- Huawei is central to Beijing's goal of dominating AI despite those restrictions.
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