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Facing US export controls, China's DeepSeek plans to make its own chips
DeepSeek is planning to develop its own AI inference chips to reduce dependency on Nvidia and Huawei amid tightening US export controls on semiconductor technology to China.
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The Wire takeaway
US export controls are forcing Chinese AI labs to vertically integrate chip design, reshaping global AI supply chains and creating new competitive dynamics in inference hardware.
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Topics: AI Frontier Models · Semiconductors · export-controls · chip-sovereignty · deepseek · semiconductor-strategy · ai-infrastructure