DeepSeek plans its own inference chip, a threat to Nvidia and Huawei alike
The post DeepSeek plans its own inference chip, a threat to Nvidia and Huawei alike appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com. Chinese AI startup DeepSeek is designing an in-house chip to run its models, according to sources close to the matter. The disclosure, if true, would reduce its dependence on both Nvidia and Huawei. For a company that already forced a rethink across the industry once, the plan especially puts pressure on the American chipmaker, losing ground in China, and on the domestic suppliers racing to replace it. The race to be the leader of inference The Hangzhou firm is aiming the chip at inference, the stage where a trained model answers user queries. Inference is where AI systems earn their keep at scale, and it is the part of the market Huawei has just started to win with its Ascend line. A DeepSeek chip built for the same job would put the startup in competition with the very homegrown supplier that Chinese tech companies have been scrambling to buy from. Since DeepSeek