Deepseek v4 will reportedly run entirely on Huawei chips in a major win for China's AI independence push

THE DECODER / 4/4/2026

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DeepSeek v4 is reported to be launching soon and would run exclusively on Huawei chips, positioning it as a key milestone for China’s AI hardware self-reliance efforts.
Reportedly, China’s largest technology firms have already placed orders for hundreds of thousands of Huawei chip units to support the deployment.
The report claims Nvidia was excluded from early testing, indicating a notable shift away from US-supplied accelerators for at least this stage of rollout.
The development suggests a strengthening of China’s domestic AI compute supply chain and potential implications for how AI models are trained and served regionally under export and supply constraints.

Deepseek v4 is expected to launch in the coming weeks and will run exclusively on Huawei chips. China's biggest tech companies have reportedly already ordered hundreds of thousands of units. Nvidia was shut out of early testing.

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