DeepSeek releases Ascend support for Huawei chips
SemiAnalysis: The Huawei-DeepSeek Symbiosis
Right before China’s national day holidays, DeepSeek released Ascend support for TileLang, DeepGEMM, DeepEP, TileKernels, FlashMLA, and DeepSelect.Neither can do this alone. Although they have Pangu, Huawei has no frontier lab to prove their chip can train or infer models, DeepSeek has models but cannot buy the compute it needs. Each supplies exactly what the other lacks: Huawei provides the hardware and native software stack; DeepSeek brings the workloads and engineering needed to make th
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Two companies with complementary strengths have formed a partnership: one provides hardware and software infrastructure but lacks frontier AI models to demonstrate the technology, while the other has advanced models but cannot obtain sufficient computing resources. The partnership involves one company releasing software support for the other's chip architecture, exchanging capabilities through kernel-authoring language. This arrangement is expected to deepen over the coming years as both parties work toward building a fully domestic ecosystem. The technical details show how the hardware architecture performs on various computational tasks and how the software has been optimized to work with that hardware.
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