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DeepSeek bets on Huawei chips for a giant new AI cluster
Sep 4, 2026SOURCE: bloomberg.com
SO WHAT
The window is narrowing: compute is becoming a national stack, and the winners will own not just models, but the hardware path beneath them.
DeepSeek plans to deploy at least 160,000 Huawei accelerators in an Inner Mongolia data center, building one of the largest known domestic AI clusters. The move advances China’s effort to replace Nvidia, a visible shift in the supply chain under the wire.
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