Data Center

DeepSeek plans 160,000-chip Huawei cluster in Inner Mongolia: DeepSeek plans to deploy 160,000 Huawei Ascend-950DT chips in an Inner Mongolia data center dedicated solely to inference. If completed, it would be the largest known Huawei chip cluster. However, production bottlenecks mean Huawei likely cannot deliver the processors for over a year.

Infrastructure • The Decoder

DeepSeek plans to deploy 160,000 Huawei Ascend chips in Inner Mongolia: DeepSeek plans to deploy at least 160,000 of Huawei's top Ascend 950DT accelerators at a massive new data center in Inner Mongolia. The project would create one of the largest clusters of Huawei chips to date. The initiative highlights DeepSeek's efforts to build domestic AI infrastructure.

Hardware • Techmeme