China’s DeepSeek open-sources tools to help Huawei chips supplant Nvidia in AI
Chinese artificial intelligence start-up DeepSeek on Wednesday open-sourced a suite of core tools tailored for Huawei Technologies’ Ascend AI chips, marking a step forward in the country’s push to end dependence on processors from US giant Nvidia amid US export curbs. Hangzhou-based DeepSeek released six software modules that mirror its prior open-source tools for Nvidia’s AI chips, aiming to…
Chinese AI startup DeepSeek opened up a suite of software tools for Huawei's Ascend AI chips on Wednesday, signaling a shift away from Nvidia processors. The Hangzhou-based firm released six modules that mirror previous tools for Nvidia's chips, aiming to create an independent software ecosystem for GPUs. Among the releases is TileLang, a programming language that now supports Huawei's Ascend 950 accelerators, offering native code generation, automatic scheduling, and synchronization.
DeepSeek also unveiled high-performance libraries like DeepGEMM Ascend for matrix multiplication and DeepEP Ascend for efficient cross-device communication. These tools reportedly approach hardware limits in computational and communication performance. The development was a collaborative effort with Huawei, working on a supernode architecture with 128 Ascend 950 processors.
This move comes as Beijing pushes for tech self-reliance, with other Chinese chipmakers like Cambricon Technologies and Alibaba Group supporting DeepSeek's V4 model, which runs on Huawei's Ascend chips.
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