diff --git a/.gitmodules b/.gitmodules
index 45d1d6019855..e9969a499345 100644
--- a/.gitmodules
+++ b/.gitmodules
@@ -73,6 +73,3 @@
 [submodule "third_party/nccl/nccl"]
 	path = third_party/nccl/nccl
 	url = https://github.com/NVIDIA/nccl
-[submodule "third_party/gemmlowp/gemmlowp"]
-	path = third_party/gemmlowp/gemmlowp
-	url = https://github.com/google/gemmlowp.git
diff --git a/third_party/gemmlowp/gemmlowp b/third_party/gemmlowp/gemmlowp
deleted file mode 120000
index 92fceb13d789..000000000000
--- a/third_party/gemmlowp/gemmlowp
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Subproject commit 8416bab644641a5c0a81ecf91a5cda804af0aee1