DeepSeek’s HBM efficiency may unlock China’s AI hardware ecosystem
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DeepSeek is reportedly pursuing a strategic shift focused on architectural efficiency to overcome hardware constraints and catalyze a domestic AI ecosystem in China. By prioritizing algorithmic innovations such as Multi-head Latent Attention (MLA) and Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) architectures, the company has significantly reduced High Bandwidth Memory (HBM) requirements.
For instance, the DeepSeek V4 model requires only 5.48GB of HBM for a 1-million-token context, a fraction of the memory needed by comparable models from competitors like GLM or Qwen. This technical approach allows DeepSeek to trade raw computational power for more abundant resources like NAND SSDs and LPDDR memory.