DeepSeek plans largest known Huawei chip cluster with 160,000 Ascend processors
The Decoder · rss · 2026-09-04
DeepSeek plans to install 160,000 Huawei Ascend 950DT chips in an Inner Mongolia data center, dedicated to inference rather than training. It would be the largest known Huawei chip cluster to date, but production bottlenecks mean Huawei likely can't deliver the full order for over a year. The move signals a major scale-up of domestic Chinese compute for inference workloads.
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