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title: 'The Information reports DeepSeek will pre-train on Huawei Ascend 950DT by end of 2026'
url: 'https://securteksecurity.com/news/deepseek-pre-train-huawei-ascend-950dt-information-reports'
markdown: 'https://securteksecurity.com/news/deepseek-pre-train-huawei-ascend-950dt-information-reports.md'
date: '2026-10-19'
description: "The Information reports that DeepSeek plans to start pre-training on Huawei's Ascend 950DT by the end of 2026, and that the two companies are co-shaping future Ascend chip designs. The 950DT ships in the fourth quarter of 2026 with Huawei's HiZQ 2.0 HBM (144GB, 4 TB/s); prior reporting cited in the…"
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# [The Information reports DeepSeek will pre-train on Huawei Ascend 950DT by end of 2026](https://securteksecurity.com/news/deepseek-pre-train-huawei-ascend-950dt-information-reports)

   19th Oct 2026  

The Information reports that DeepSeek plans to start pre-training on Huawei's Ascend 950DT by the end of 2026, and that the two companies are co-shaping future Ascend chip designs. The 950DT ships in the fourth quarter of 2026 with Huawei's HiZQ 2.0 HBM (144GB, 4 TB/s); prior reporting cited in the same summary pegs a 160,000 chip order for a 1GW Ulanqab site. DeepSeek has so far used Huawei silicon mainly for inference while training on Nvidia hardware.

Sourcing note: this item rests on a single reporting chain, The Information's report as summarized by AI Weekly on October 19, 2026, and it has not been independently confirmed elsewhere. It is published on that stated basis and will be updated when confirmation or denial appears. If it holds, it would be the first flagship Chinese model pre-trained on domestic silicon rather than Nvidia.

Sources: [AI Weekly](https://aiweekly.co/alerts/the-information-deepseek-will-pre-train-on-huawei-ascend-950dt-by-end-of-2026) (summarizing The Information)

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