DeepSeek plans to buy over 160,000 Huawei AI chips for inference-only Inner Mongolia cluster
zephyr_z9 · x · 2026-09-04
According to Bloomberg, DeepSeek plans to purchase more than 160,000 Huawei AI chips for its Inner Mongolia data center, which would become the largest Huawei AI chip cluster.
Key points:
- The chips will be used for inference only; training still relies on Nvidia
- Huawei's 950DT production is constrained by HBM and memory shortages, expected to reach only a few hundred thousand units this year
- Fully fulfilling DeepSeek's order could take over a year
- Inner Mongolia is set to become the key hub powering DeepSeek's AI development
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