Facing US export controls, China’s DeepSeek plans to make its own chips
Summary
Ars Technica covers DeepSeek's plan to move into silicon to reduce reliance on Nvidia and Huawei. The focus is on data center AI inference chips, with Reuters sources noting ongoing hiring and partnerships; this move reflects broader pressures from US export controls on Chinese AI silicon supply and parallel efforts by OpenAI and Anthropic to explore in-house chip design.