diff --git a/common.gypi b/common.gypi
index a7c1e4623e6147..2f5b153ca4bc1f 100644
--- a/common.gypi
+++ b/common.gypi
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@
 
     # Reset this number to 0 on major V8 upgrades.
     # Increment by one for each non-official patch applied to deps/v8.
-    'v8_embedder_string': '-node.51',
+    'v8_embedder_string': '-node.52',
 
     ##### V8 defaults for Node.js #####
 
diff --git a/deps/v8/DEPS b/deps/v8/DEPS
index 7eaa7fc5b57069..8d7e1568307ff2 100644
--- a/deps/v8/DEPS
+++ b/deps/v8/DEPS
@@ -2,7 +2,15 @@
 # directory and assume that the root of the checkout is in ./v8/, so
 # all paths in here must match this assumption.
 
+gclient_gn_args_file = 'v8/build/config/gclient_args.gni'
+gclient_gn_args = [
+  'checkout_aemu'
+]
+
 vars = {
+  # By Default, do not checkout AEMU, as it is too big, as is done in Chromium.
+  'checkout_aemu': False,
+
   # Fetches only the SDK boot images which match at least one of the whitelist
   # entries in a comma-separated list.
   #