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DeepSeek open-sources Ascend AI programming suite for Huawei chips

By Drooid · Sep 30, 2026, 10:48 AM UTC · How we work

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DeepSeek open-sourced a programming suite for Huawei’s Ascend AI chips on September 30 2026.
TileLang wraps Ascend C instructions to simplify coding compared with Nvidia’s CUDA.
DeepSeek and Huawei are optimizing a 128-card supernode on Ascend 950 chips, with performance near hardware limits in tests.
Huawei gave “unreserved, full-throated” support for the new software infrastructure.
The suite adds DeepGEMM, DeepEP, TileKernels, FlashMLA and DeepSelect for common AI tasks.

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DeepSeek open-sourced a programming suite for Huawei’s Ascend AI chips on September 30 2026.
TileLang wraps Ascend C instructions to simplify coding compared with Nvidia’s CUDA.
DeepSeek and Huawei are optimizing a 128-card supernode on Ascend 950 chips, with performance near hardware limits in tests.
Huawei gave “unreserved, full-throated” support for the new software infrastructure.
The suite adds DeepGEMM, DeepEP, TileKernels, FlashMLA and DeepSelect for common AI tasks.