{"id":371794,"date":"2026-07-07T07:56:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-07T14:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/?p=371794"},"modified":"2026-07-07T07:56:36","modified_gmt":"2026-07-07T14:56:36","slug":"deepseek-is-now-reportedly-designing-its-own-chip-a-bid-to-cut-nvidia-reliance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/deepseek-is-now-reportedly-designing-its-own-chip-a-bid-to-cut-nvidia-reliance\/","title":{"rendered":"DeepSeek is now reportedly designing its own chip: a bid to cut Nvidia reliance"},"content":{"rendered":"

DeepSeek<\/a>, the Chinese AI startup, is reportedly working on its own inference chip, the part that spits out answers when you ask a model something, Reuters reports. If that holds, it’s a real change in direction<\/strong>: less dependence on Nvidia, and to a lesser degree, on Huawei hardware too.<\/p>\n

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Reuters says DeepSeek is aiming at inference<\/strong>, not training. That tracks. Serving chatbot responses at scale burns through money fast, and a custom chip could give the company tighter control over cost, performance, and how those systems are deployed across the whole stack.<\/p>\n\n

That push toward self-reliance looks even more urgent now that Washington has tightened export controls<\/a><\/strong>. Reuters says DeepSeek had been using Nvidia’s China-specific H800 chips before those also got caught by additional U.S. restrictions, which makes access to top-end compute a lot less predictable for Chinese AI companies.<\/p>\n\n

If you pay attention to AI infrastructure, this is one to keep an eye on. Still, it’s early.<\/p>\n\n

Reuters says DeepSeek is in talks with chip designers, foundries, and memory suppliers, while also quietly hiring engineers. Even so, a processor that can really compete would take years<\/strong>, a lot of money, advanced manufacturing capacity, and high-bandwidth memory, all of which are still vulnerable to bottlenecks and export limits.<\/p>\n\n

Per Reuters, DeepSeek would be joining a broader push that’s already underway, one that includes major AI companies and Chinese players like Alibaba, Baidu, and Huawei. For now, this looks like a long-term bet on survival, independence, and control<\/strong>, not a product launch that’s right around the corner.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

DeepSeek, the Chinese AI startup, is reportedly working on its own inference chip, the part that spits out answers when you ask a model something, Reuters reports. If that holds, it’s a real change in direction: less dependence on Nvidia, and to a lesser degree, on Huawei hardware too. Reuters says DeepSeek is aiming at … Continue reading “DeepSeek is now reportedly designing its own chip: a bid to cut Nvidia reliance”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9265,"featured_media":371793,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[1015],"tags":[],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[6771],"class_list":["post-371794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","content-category-ai"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371794","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9265"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=371794"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371794\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":371795,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371794\/revisions\/371795"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/371793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=371794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=371794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=371794"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=371794"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=371794"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=371794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}