Cambricon Responds to Investor Query on DeepSeek Business Ties

The non-answer is itself the signal: Cambricon's reply frames its chips as broadly applicable while declining to confirm any DeepSeek tie-up, leaving the investor's actual question—why its products were absent from the V4 preview—unaddressed. That gap matters because model-release disclosures have become a de facto scoreboard for domestic AI silicon, and omission from a prominent one carries reputational weight regardless of the underlying technical fit. Whether Cambricon appears in future DeepSeek releases, or clarifies the nature of any engagement, is the open question.