Designing a chip is one thing. Securing the manufacturing capacity, memory and packaging needed to produce it at scale is much harder.

Inference chip will allow company reduce its reliance on Nvidia and Huawei

If successful, DeepSeek's expansion into semiconductor development would mark a major strategic shift for a company widely hailed in China as the country's AI champion,…

The chip is designed for inference - the stage of AI computing in which a trained model generates responses for users - rather than for training new models, sources said.

Chinese startup Deepseek is building its own AI chip, Reuters reports.

Chinese AI startup DeepSeek is developing its own AI chip, amid a competitive landscape dominated by major tech firms.

Sources say the move will reduce the company's reliance on Nvidia and Huawei chips

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