DeepSeek plans to buy 160,000 Huawei chips as China aims to wean itself off Nvidia

DIGITIMESSeptember 7, 2026en

DeepSeek is reportedly planning to purchase 160,000 Huawei chips for its large 1 GW data center currently under construction in the Chinese province of Inner Mongolia. This would make it among the largest clusters of Huawei chips deployed to date, as the Chinese authorities attempt to wean the country off Nvidia chips, but still struggle with insufficient domestic manufacturing capacity.

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