DeepSeek’s Chip Whisper
The whisper that lit up China’s chipmakers.
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A stray line in DeepSeek’s V3.1 update was enough to add billions to Chinese semiconductor valuations. The company disclosed that its model employs the “UE8M0 FP8” precision format.
