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Apr 15, 2026 · Industry Insights

How DeepSeek V4 Uses Huawei Ascend 950PR to Outperform Nvidia H20 by 2.9×

The article analyzes DeepSeek V4's migration to Huawei's Ascend 950PR chip and CANN framework, detailing three hardware‑level innovations, the CUDA‑to‑CANN transition, and the resulting 35× inference speed boost, 2.87× performance over Nvidia H20, and dramatic cost reductions for trillion‑parameter models.