This represents the next significant step that China - and by extension, Huawei - is attempting to take: achieving as much independence as possible from the U.S. and from NVIDIA chips.

That is why, for DeepSeek v5, they have opted to conduct the training almost entirely on Huawei’s own chips.

The rationale behind this is that by breaking away from U.S. chips to the greatest extent possible and keeping development within the domestic market, China retains its leverage - specifically regarding rare earth elements - over the West, without having to rely on Western goodwill for the supply of chips.