{"slug": "china-s-deepseek-developing-its-own-ai-chip", "title": "China's DeepSeek Developing Its Own AI Chip", "summary": "Chinese startup DeepSeek is developing its own AI chip for inference, aiming to reduce reliance on Nvidia and Huawei chips. The move marks a major strategic shift for the company, which is hailed as China's AI champion, and could add to challenges faced by Huawei.", "body_md": "An anonymous reader quotes a report from Reuters: Chinese startup DeepSeek is developing its own AI chip, according to three people familiar with the matter, a push that could reduce its reliance on Nvidia and Huawei chips, which it has depended on to train and run its globally popular models. The chip is designed for inference -- the stage of AI computing in which a trained model generates responses for users -- rather than for training new models, the sources said. If successful, DeepSeek's expansion into semiconductor development would mark a major strategic shift for a company widely hailed in China as the country's AI champion, potentially adding to challenges faced by Chinese tech giant Huawei.[Read more of this story](https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/26/07/07/1740259/chinas-deepseek-developing-its-own-ai-chip?utm_source=rss1.0moreanon&utm_medium=feed) at Slashdot.", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/china-s-deepseek-developing-its-own-ai-chip", "canonical_source": "https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/26/07/07/1740259/chinas-deepseek-developing-its-own-ai-chip?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed", "published_at": "2026-07-07 19:00:00+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-07-07 19:07:03.723565+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-chips", "artificial-intelligence", "ai-startups", "ai-infrastructure"], "entities": ["DeepSeek", "Nvidia", "Huawei", "Reuters", "China"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/china-s-deepseek-developing-its-own-ai-chip", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/china-s-deepseek-developing-its-own-ai-chip.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/china-s-deepseek-developing-its-own-ai-chip.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/china-s-deepseek-developing-its-own-ai-chip.jsonld"}}