DeepSeek wants 160,000 Huawei Ascend chips for massive Inner Mongolia data center
Hesamation · x · 2026-09-04
DeepSeek plans to buy 160,000 Huawei Ascend chips for its massive Inner Mongolia data center — set to be the largest Huawei AI chip cluster.
- Inference only; Nvidia still used for training
- Manufacturing could take over a year due to capacity constraints
- DeepSeek wants more chips, but Huawei's production capacity remains short
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