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China Domestic AI Chip Adoption vs Nvidia
Chinese AI firms like DeepSeek increasingly turn to homegrown chips such as Huawei's Ascend 950DT for large-scale AI infrastructure instead of Nvidia's China-specific GPUs.
- DeepSeek Reportedly Orders 160,000 Huawei Ascend 950DT AI Chips for Inner Mongolia Data Center
Chinese AI lab DeepSeek has placed a large order for Huawei's domestically made Ascend 950DT accelerators instead of Nvidia's China-specific H20 GPUs, according to reports from TechPowerUp and Wccftech, signaling a shift toward homegrown chips for large-scale AI inference.