Report: DeepSeek co-designing chips with Huawei, eyes Ascend 950DT
10/20/2026 — 10/21, 00:19·2 sources (all)·2 reports (all)
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- The Information, citing two people familiar with the matter, reports that DeepSeek is working closely with Huawei on the design of future AI…
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On October 20, 2026, Techmeme reported, citing The Information, that DeepSeek is working closely with Huawei on the design of future AI chips. According to the report, which cites two people familiar with the matter, DeepSeek plans to begin using Huawei's Ascend 950DT for model pre-training as soon as the end of 2026. The available material consists of this single relayed report: neither DeepSeek nor Huawei has publicly confirmed the collaboration, its scope, or the stated timeline, and no further details on the chip design work were given. The matter currently rests at the rumor stage.
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Latest turnDeepSeek is working closely with Huawei, with Huawei engineers embedded at its offices to feed model-training needs into future chip design, and plans to start pretraining on Ascend 950DT as early as the end of this year, cnBeta reports. DeepSeek has open-sourced TileLang compiler tooling for Ascend, while IDC data puts Huawei at 28% of China's AI chip market in the first half of 2026 versus NVIDIA's 34%.
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DeepSeek is working closely with Huawei, with Huawei engineers embedded at its offices to feed model-training needs into future chip design, and plans to start pretraining on Ascend 950DT as early as the end of this year, cnBeta reports. DeepSeek has open-sourced TileLang compiler tooling for Ascend, while IDC data puts Huawei at 28% of China's AI chip market in the first half of 2026 versus NVIDIA's 34%.
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DeepSeek is working closely with Huawei to shape the design of future AI chips, according to The Information, citing two people familiar with the matter. The report says DeepSeek plans to start using Huawei's Ascend 950DT for pretraining as soon as the end of 2026.
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