DeepSeek plans at least 160,000 Huawei Ascend 950DT chips in Inner Mongolia
DeepSeek says it plans to deploy at least 160,000 Huawei Ascend 950DT chips at its new Inner Mongolia data center. The chips are expected to run DeepSeek models, while NVDA hardware remains planned for training.
DeepSeek plans to deploy at least 160,000 Huawei Ascend 950DT chips at its new Inner Mongolia data center, in what could become one of the largest known clusters of Chinese AI accelerators. For context, China’s first publicly reported 10,000-chip Huawei cluster came online about six months ago. The chips are expected to run DeepSeek models, while the company still plans to rely on NVDA hardware for training. The broader site is being built at gigawatt scale, with enough power at full utilization for roughly 750,000 homes.
Huawei’s production capacity remains the main bottleneck, and fulfillment of the full order could take more than a year.