DeepSeek Ships TileLang Ascend Support, Signaling Ascend Now Viable for Training
teortaxesTex · x · 2026-09-30
DeepSeek announced TileLang support for Huawei Ascend, quoting the Analects: "A craftsman who wants to do fine work must first sharpen his tools."
- Commentator teortaxesTex argues that given DeepSeek's kernel expertise, the Ascend ecosystem is now fully viable for training
- The move echoes Liang Wenfeng's remark 26 months ago that "someone must step onto the frontier"
If confirmed, this is a key milestone for China's compute independence: a frontier lab officially building a high-performance operator toolchain for Ascend.
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