{"id":786620,"date":"2026-07-07T18:44:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-07T18:44:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/786620\/"},"modified":"2026-07-07T18:44:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-07T18:44:10","slug":"facing-us-export-controls-chinas-deepseek-plans-to-make-its-own-chips","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/786620\/","title":{"rendered":"Facing US export controls, China’s DeepSeek plans to make its own chips"},"content":{"rendered":"

DeepSeek, the Chinese startup developing large language models that are competitive with those from US companies like OpenAI and Anthropic, is planning to enter the silicon business, according to Reuters<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Citing three people familiar with the matter, Reuters writes that DeepSeek has been working on a move into silicon for about a year. It has been meeting with potential partners in the hardware and silicon space and has been hiring engineers for the project.<\/p>\n

The focus is on data center chips for inference, not training, and the goal is likely to reduce reliance on both Huawei and Nvidia.<\/p>\n

Nvidia is the chipmaker for most AI companies in North America and Europe, but a United States export ban has prevented the company from achieving a similar presence in China. Huawei controls about half of the data center chip market there, and DeepSeek isn\u2019t the only one trying to enter; Chinese tech giants like Alibaba and Baidu have been making moves, too.<\/p>\n

While chip export controls in the US are a major reason this is an urgent concern for DeepSeek, US-based AI companies are making similar chip plans.<\/p>\n

For example, OpenAI and Broadcom jointly announced Jalape\u00f1o<\/a>, the former\u2019s first chip designed for inference at scale, just a couple of weeks ago. Anthropic, too, has been exploring custom chip design, though there have not been any publicly visible milestones yet.<\/p>\n

In OpenAI\u2019s case, it\u2019s partly a play to reduce its reliance on Nvidia, but it\u2019s also a desire to have Apple-like control over the entire tech stack for its products. Further, getting in at the silicon and data center levels can be an advantage in a market where data center access is likely to remain constrained, with multiple companies competing for compute as they scale up their AI models and services.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DeepSeek, the Chinese startup developing large language models that are competitive with those from US companies like OpenAI…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":786621,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[62,276,277,49,48,61],"class_list":["post-786620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/786620","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=786620"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/786620\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/786621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=786620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=786620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=786620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}