# Huawei Engineers Are Embedded at DeepSeek to Shape Ascend Chips, The Information Reports

Times of AI Desk · 2026-10-20 · Infrastructure

[https://timesof.ai/2026/10/deepseek-huawei-ascend-chip-codesign-the-information](https://timesof.ai/2026/10/deepseek-huawei-ascend-chip-codesign-the-information)

> The Information reported, as relayed by Investing.com on Oct. 19, that Huawei engineers are stationed at DeepSeek and feeding its input into Ascend chip designs. DeepSeek plans to start training on Ascend 950DT as soon as end-2026, with priority on most Ascend 960DT chips expected in Q1 2027. Single-origin; hedge.

If it works, this would be a template for training a frontier model on a fully Chinese stack — and for now it is a plan reported by one outlet. **The Information** reported, as carried by Investing.com on **Monday, October 19**, that Huawei engineers are stationed in DeepSeek's offices and incorporating its feedback into chip designs, including how calculations run and how data moves between processors, according to people familiar with the collaboration.

DeepSeek plans to begin training on **Ascend 950DT** chips as soon as the end of 2026, and Huawei plans to prioritise DeepSeek for most of its next-generation **Ascend 960DT** chips expected in the first quarter of 2027, the report says. Epoch AI estimates Nvidia's B300 delivers about seven times the raw arithmetic of the Ascend 950, Investing.com relays. DeepSeek continues to seek Nvidia chips and uses TileLang to port software across architectures, according to the same account.

## Limits

- Single origin (The Information, anonymous sources), read through an Investing.com summary. The Information original was not opened.

## Sources

- [Investing.com via Yahoo Finance: DeepSeek teams up with Huawei to challenge Nvidia (October 19, 2026)](https://finance.yahoo.com/technology/ai/articles/deepseek-teams-huawei-challenge-nvidia-183703468.html)