{"slug": "chinas-deepseek-developing-its-own-ai-chip-sources-say", "title": "China’s DeepSeek developing its own AI chip, sources say", "summary": "Chinese startup DeepSeek is developing its own AI chip for inference, aiming to reduce reliance on Nvidia and Huawei chips, according to sources. The move marks a strategic shift for the company and could challenge Huawei in China's AI chip market.", "body_md": "Chinese startup DeepSeek is developing its own artificial intelligence 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.\n\nThe 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.\n\nIf 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.", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/chinas-deepseek-developing-its-own-ai-chip-sources-say", "canonical_source": "https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2026/07/08/tech/china-deepseek-ai-chip/", "published_at": "2026-07-08 02:55:00+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-07-08 04:32:43.942511+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["artificial-intelligence", "ai-chips", "ai-startups", "ai-infrastructure"], "entities": ["DeepSeek", "Nvidia", "Huawei"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/chinas-deepseek-developing-its-own-ai-chip-sources-say", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/chinas-deepseek-developing-its-own-ai-chip-sources-say.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/chinas-deepseek-developing-its-own-ai-chip-sources-say.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/chinas-deepseek-developing-its-own-ai-chip-sources-say.jsonld"}}