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DeepSeek Adds Ascend Support for AI
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On September 30, DeepSeek released Ascend support for TileLang, DeepGEMM, and other tools. This move allows the company to utilize Huawei Ascend 950PR chips, which feature 28 cube cores and 128 GiB HBM. The hardware offers 41.5% median achieved fraction versus Nvidia H100s, while DeepSeek provides the necessary model workloads and kernel optimizations.
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