DeepSeek CEO Liang Wenfeng Calls Huawei Training Chips One of Company's Biggest Bets, Expects Q4 2026 Delivery

The Information reports DeepSeek founder Liang Wenfeng told investors that training on Huawei chips is one of DeepSeek's biggest strategic bets, with Huawei expected to begin delivering training chips as early as Q4 2026. It marks a shift from DeepSeek's prior Nvidia-only training stack after R2's earlier Ascend 910C training run failed. Reuters and prior filings had DeepSeek's 160,000-chip Huawei order pegged for inference; training would be a step further into Chinese hardware self-reliance.