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DeepSeek partners with Huawei to develop chip programming tools, reducing reliance on Nvidia
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Fusion42 · 1 October 2026 · Fusion42 review
DeepSeek has partnered with Huawei to develop and open-source programming tools optimized for Huawei's Ascend AI chips, providing an alternative to Nvidia's ecosystem. The partnership includes advancing a supernode solution with 128 Ascend 950 chips and leveraging DeepSeek's TileLang programming language to simplify AI chip programming.
This Wire brief sits within Fusion42's coverage of Semiconductors, and 5 sources have reported it.
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You now have a new, open programming tool chain for Huawei's Ascend chips that cuts your dependency on Nvidia's ecosystem. DeepSeek's TileLang offers simpler code and full hardware performance, so you can build AI models more efficiently and with more independence.
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5 sources · 30 Sep 2026
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