{"id":16259,"date":"2025-08-22T14:00:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-22T14:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/16259\/"},"modified":"2025-08-22T14:00:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-22T14:00:08","slug":"tech-war-which-chinese-firm-is-supplying-next-generation-ai-chips-to-deepseek","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/16259\/","title":{"rendered":"Tech war: which Chinese firm is supplying next-generation AI chips to DeepSeek?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/topics\/hangzhou?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Hangzhou<\/a>-based <a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/topics\/start-ups?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">start-up<\/a>\u2019s cryptic one-line post on <a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/topics\/wechat?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">WeChat<\/a> triggered online discussions about which AI chip supplier, or suppliers, would unveil this breakthrough, even as <a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/topics\/us-sanctions-china?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">US tech restrictions<\/a> remain in place.DeepSeek\u2019s post on Thursday said the \u201cUE8M0 FP8 scale\u201d of its <a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/tech\/big-tech\/article\/3322481\/deepseeks-v31-update-and-missing-r1-label-spark-speculation-over-fate-r2-ai-model?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">V3.1 AI model<\/a> was particularly designed \u201cfor home-grown chips to be released soon\u201d. Apart from not identifying the supplier, the firm did not specify how the new AI chips would be used \u2013 for training of models or inferencing, the stage where an AI system puts its learning into action.\u201cIt\u2019s also likely that the new model will support a number of AI chips, not just those from Huawei or another company,\u201d Liu Jie, an engineer at a <a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/topics\/shanghai?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Shanghai<\/a>-based developer of graphics processing units (GPUs), said on Friday.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The speculation reflects not only growing confidence in the capabilities of locally designed and produced integrated circuits, but also how China\u2019s semiconductor industry has steadily overcome US tech sanctions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Hangzhou-based start-up\u2019s cryptic one-line post on WeChat triggered online discussions about which AI chip supplier, or suppliers,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16260,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[261],"tags":[291,289,290,7102,7100,381,5214,14671,8736,18,14672,14668,14670,2422,10972,5218,14674,19,17,14676,7096,14665,292,14673,14664,10976,82,14666,14675,14669,14667],"class_list":{"0":"post-16259","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-artificialintelligence","11":"tag-ascend","12":"tag-cambricon","13":"tag-china","14":"tag-chinese","15":"tag-cloudmatrix-384","16":"tag-deepseek","17":"tag-eire","18":"tag-fp8","19":"tag-graphics-processing-units","20":"tag-h20","21":"tag-hangzhou","22":"tag-hisilicon","23":"tag-huawei","24":"tag-hygon","25":"tag-ie","26":"tag-ireland","27":"tag-metax","28":"tag-moore-threads","29":"tag-next-generation-ai-chips","30":"tag-nvidia","31":"tag-omdia","32":"tag-semiconductor","33":"tag-semiconductor-manufacturing-international-corp","34":"tag-technology","35":"tag-ue8m0-fp8-scale","36":"tag-us-tech","37":"tag-us-tech-sanctions","38":"tag-v3-1-model"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16259","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16259"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16259\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}