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DeepSeek to deploy 160K+ Huawei Ascend 950DT chips at Inner Mongolia data center

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Bloomberg sources report that DeepSeek plans to deploy at least 160,000 Huawei Ascend 950DT accelerators at a data center it is building in Inner Mongolia, which would create one of the largest Huawei chip clusters. The deployment underscores DeepSeek's reliance on Huawei hardware amid ongoing US export restrictions.

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    Sources: DeepSeek plans to use 160K+ of Huawei's Ascend 950DT chips at an Inner Mongolia data center, which would create one of the largest Huawei chip clusters (Mackenzie Hawkins/Bloomberg)

    Mackenzie Hawkins / Bloomberg : Sources: DeepSeek plans to use 160K+ of Huawei's Ascend 950DT chips at an Inner Mongolia data center, which would create one of the largest Huawei chip clusters — DeepSeek plans to deploy at least 160,000 of Huawei Technologies Co.'s top accelerators at a massive data center it's building …