DeepSeek Plans 160K+ Huawei Chips at Inner Mongolia Site — SkimNews
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- DeepSeek plans to deploy at least 160,000 of Huawei Technologies' Ascend 950DT accelerators at a data center in Inner Mongolia, per Bloomberg's unnamed sources
- The deployment would create one of Huawei's largest chip clusters, underscoring the scale of the planned buildout
Why it matters: If executed, the 160,000-chip cluster would put Huawei's Ascend 950DT at the heart of a frontier-scale Chinese AI training build, giving DeepSeek and Huawei a marquee reference deployment for domestic accelerators at a scale previously associated with US silicon.
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