Hesamation adds detail on DeepSeek's 160,000-chip Huawei order
Hesamation · x · 2026-09-04
Hesamation follows up on its post about DeepSeek's plan to buy 160,000 Huawei Ascend chips, reiterating: it would be the largest Huawei AI chip cluster, inference-only (Nvidia still for training), manufacturing could take over a year, and DeepSeek wants more while Huawei's capacity remains short.
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