🇨🇳⚡️ DeepSeek ordering 160K+ Huawei Ascend 950DT chips for a new Mongolia data center
No NVIDIA, no problem. DeepSeek is building serious infra on China's own silicon stack.
The 950DT trades blows with H200 on memory bandwidth. Mongolia keeps costs low and regulators at arm's length.
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Bloomberg.com
DeepSeek Plans Big Huawei AI Chip Order to Power New Data Center
DeepSeek plans to deploy at least 160,000 of Huawei Technologies Co.’s top accelerators at a massive data center it’s building in Inner Mongolia, which could create one of the largest known clusters of Huawei AI chips and advance China’s efforts to replace…
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