Deepseek builds China's largest Huawei chip cluster with 160,000 processors

deepseek plans to deploy at least 160,000 huawei ascend-950dt chips in a massive data center in inner mongolia for inference workloads. for training workloads, deepseek still uses nvidia hardware. if built, this would be the largest known huawei chip cluster and a significant step toward reducing china's dependence on nvidia. however, huawei may not be able to deliver the full order for over a year due to production limits and memory chip shortages. chinese memory maker cxmt has started producing small batches of hbm3e, but is still behind global leaders in high-speed memory production.