DeepSeek V5 to Train on Huawei Ascend 950 Chips Next Year

TREE NEWS reports: DeepSeek plans to use Huawei’s Ascend 950 chips as the core training compute for its next-generation DeepSeek V5 model, with the project targeted for launch next year, people familiar with the supply chain said. The companies’ core R&D integration team is based in Hangzhou, and the two sides completed extensive low-level operator adaptation and custom development during the V4 stage. Ascend compute handled only inference in DeepSeek’s previous model generation; V5 would be its first model trained natively on Ascend 950.