A growing list of Chinese firms – from Huawei to Cambricon – moves fast to integrate DeepSeek’s latest AI model across diverse architectures
3-MIN READ3-MIN ListenMinxiao Changin ShenzhenPublished: 8:30pm, 6 May 2026The release of DeepSeek’s latest large language model, V4, has been followed by a wave of adoption among domestic semiconductor manufacturers and artificial intelligence chipmakers, with firms racing to support the model on local hardware platforms.The shift comes amid rising geopolitical tensions over advanced semiconductors.
Here are some of the key players enabling the model’s deployment on domestic hardware.
The optimised model delivers up to 2.87 times the single-card inference performance of Nvidia’s China-specific H20 processor, while improving multimodal generation efficiency by 60 per cent. Deployment costs are reported to be about one-tenth of comparable GPT-based services. Huawei reportedly planned to produce about 750,000 Ascend 950PR chips in 2026, with mass production having started in April and shipments expected in the second half of the year, according to Reuters.
