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DeepSeek partners with Huawei to develop chip programming tools, reducing reliance on Nvidia
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Fusion42 · 30 September 2026 · Fusion42 review
Chinese AI firm DeepSeek partnered with Huawei to develop and open-source programming tools optimised for Huawei's Ascend AI chips, aiming to reduce dependency on Nvidia's ecosystem. The collaboration supports a supernode solution using Ascend 950 chips and introduces TileLang, a high-level programming language designed for better development efficiency and hardware performance.
This Wire brief sits within Fusion42's coverage of AI & ML, and 5 sources have reported it.
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Chip and AI tool developers now face a new competitor to Nvidia's CUDA with Huawei's Ascend backed by DeepSeek's TileLang. You should explore support for Ascend platforms to avoid being tied to Nvidia's stack.
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