# DeepSeek Releases DeepInfer Engine with Native Support for Nvidia and Huawei Chips

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DeepSeek Releases DeepInfer Engine with Native Support for Nvidia and Huawei Chips

DeepSeek has released DeepInfer, the inference framework powering its large-scale model services, with support for both Nvidia GPUs and Huawei Ascend processors.

Dick Weisinger
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October 24, 2026 ·
2 min read · Source: TechNode · Issue #136

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What happened

DeepSeek has released DeepInfer, the inference framework powering its large-scale model services, with support for both Nvidia GPUs and Huawei Ascend processors. The release includes distributed inference, speculative decoding, and structured output capabilities, alongside deepseek-recipe for handling API requests and input-output processing. The framework currently supports DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017, with further optimizations planned for subsequent model iterations.

Key details

DeepSeek released the DeepInfer inference framework on October 20.

The framework supports both Nvidia GPUs and Huawei Ascend processors.

DeepInfer currently supports DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017.

What remains unclear

Independent benchmark performance figures on Huawei Ascend hardware

Adoption rates among enterprise customers using non-Nvidia configurations

Full hardware compatibility list beyond Ascend processors and Nvidia GPUs

Source: TechNode · source published October 21, 2026

The inclusion of Huawei Ascend support alongside Nvidia hardware illustrates how domestic Chinese AI infrastructure development continues to adapt to export controls by building cross-hardware compatibility into core serving stacks.

Source

DeepSeek open-sources inference framework with support for Nvidia and Huawei chips
