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Nvidia tunes hardware for DeepSeek and Qwen as Washington weighs Chinese model restrictions

8/27/2026

Chip performance on large-model inference is architecture-specific, and Nvidia is now betting that DeepSeek and Qwen belong in its optimization stack.

The company is tuning its hardware for both Chinese-origin open AI models while warning that potential U.S. government restrictions on models from China could hurt its business.

What hardware optimization for a specific model actually means Running a large language model at scale is not a generic compute problem.

Each architecture carries its own memory access patterns and attention kernel requirements.

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