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China’s DeepSeek open-sources tools to help Huawei chips supplant Nvidia in AI

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Feng, C. (2026, September 30). China’s DeepSeek open-sources tools to help Huawei chips supplant Nvidia in AI. South China Morning Post. https://www.scmp.com/tech/tech-trends/article/3369301/chinas-deepseek-open-sources-tools-help-huawei-chips-supplant-nvidia-ai?utm_source=rss_feed

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South China Morning Post · collected 2026-09-30 · by Coco Feng

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DeepSeek, a Chinese company based in Hangzhou, has released six open-source software tools designed to support Huawei's AI chips as alternatives to Nvidia products. These tools include an Ascend-compatible version of TileLang, a programming language that optimizes code for GPUs and CPUs. The goal is to create an independent software ecosystem around Huawei’s processors, enhancing their competitiveness in the AI market.
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Hangzhou-based DeepSeek, a Chinese company, has released six software tools designed to support Huawei's AI chips in competing with those made by Nvidia, aiming to build an "independent and controllable" software ecosystem for GPUs. The suite includes a version of TileLang, a custom programming language optimized for high-performance computations on GPUs and central processing units (CPUs). This updated TileLang now officially supports Huawei's Ascend 950 accelerators alongside Nvidia’s systems, enabling native code generation, automatic scheduling, and synchronization. These efforts reflect China’s push towards developing its own AI chip technologies independent of Western companies like Nvidia.

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China DeepSeek Huawei Nvidia TileLang

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Nvidia ORG · 3× DeepSeek ORG · 2× Huawei ORG · 2× China GPE · 1× Hangzhou GPE · 1× WeChat ORG · 1×

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Among the releases is an Ascend-compatible version of TileLang, a custom programming language designed to streamline the development of high-performance kernels – essential computation programs – to run on GPUs and central processing units.
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China’s DeepSeek open-sources tools to help Huawei chips supplant Nvidia in AI asserted
chips → source → AI
With introduction of suite of six tools, AI model developer aims to create ‘independent’ software ecosystem for AI processors Hangzhou-based DeepSeek released six software modules that mirror its prior open-source tools for Nvidia’s AI chips, aiming to build a new “independent and controllable” software ecosystem for graphics processing units (GPUs), according to a post on its official WeChat account. uncertain
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Among the releases is an Ascend-compatible version of TileLang, a custom programming language designed to streamline the development of high-performance kernels – essential computation programs – to run on GPUs and central processing units. asserted
version → design → GPUs
While TileLang lists Nvidia as its primary back end, it now officially supports Huawei’s Ascend 950 accelerators, offering “native code generation, automatic scheduling, and synchronisation”, according to an update on the project’s GitHub page. uncertain
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