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Chips & Infrastructure

Huawei says its new desktop PC uses only China-made parts

The Qingyun HM650 runs on Huawei’s own Kirin X90 chip and an office version of HarmonyOS. It is Huawei’s first desktop with HarmonyOS, and it is made for government and business offices. The 100% figure covers where parts are made, not who designed them.

Huawei launched the Qingyun HM650 and HM650g desktops on November 5. Huawei says a testing company found that 100% of their parts are made in China, and calls them the first desktops to reach that. No one has taken the PC apart to check.

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Agents & Apps

DeepSeek open-sources DeepInfer, the engine behind its API

The free code runs DeepSeek V4.1 Flash on Nvidia’s Blackwell chips and on Huawei’s Ascend 950. Some parts that DeepSeek uses for its own service are still missing.

DeepSeek has published DeepInfer, the software it says runs its own large-scale AI service, under the Apache 2.0 licence. For now it supports one model, DeepSeek V4.1 Flash, on two kinds of chips: Nvidia’s SM100 GPUs and Huawei’s Ascend 950.

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Chips & Infrastructure

DeepSeek open-sources tools for Huawei’s AI chips

Its engineers added Huawei’s Ascend 950 to TileLang, an open-source language for AI chip code. DeepSeek says Huawei gave full support.

DeepSeek said on September 30 that it is open-sourcing programming tools for Huawei’s Ascend AI chips, including compute and communication libraries. Its engineers built support for the Ascend 950 into TileLang, an open-source language for writing the code that runs on AI chips. Reuters and the South China Morning Post describe it as a step away from Nvidia’s software.

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