🧠 DeepSeek Builds Software for Huawei Chips

The companies open-sourced tools for Huawei Ascend, now the main Chinese AI accelerators used by local startups. The software gap is the hard part: the industry has spent 10+ years writing for Nvidia CUDA.

The release includes DeepGEMM for matrix multiplication and DeepEP for chip-to-chip communication. Their APIs match Nvidia versions, so existing code needs almost no rewriting.

The stack runs on TileLang. Its compiler now handles scheduling and data synchronization instead of requiring manual code. DeepSeek says its training kernels already run on Ascend. This covers kernel writing, not the full CUDA stack.

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