DeepSeek ports high-performance GEMM library to Huawei Ascend NPUs
DeepGEMM-Ascend brings API-compatible, near-peak matrix multiplication performance to Huawei Ascend 950 hardware, supporting FP4, FP8, and BF16 workloads.
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DeepGEMM-Ascend brings API-compatible, near-peak matrix multiplication performance to Huawei Ascend 950 hardware, supporting FP4, FP8, and BF16 workloads.
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