Alibaba has made 470,000 AI chips, admits they’re inferior and

Alibaba has made 470,000 AI chips, admits they’re inferior and

Chinese web giant Alibaba has revealed its T-Head chipmaking business has shipped 470,000 AI chips, and admitted they are currently inferior to rival products, but believes it can build a mutually optimized stack that makes performance gaps moot. CEO Yongming Wu...
Alibaba and Tencent clouds see demand for CPUs level off,

Alibaba and Tencent clouds see demand for CPUs level off,

Demand for cloudy CPUs has levelled out at top Chinese clouds Alibaba and Tencent, whose customers increasingly want GPUs instead. Both businesses released quarterly results last week. Alibaba Cloud posted six percent year-over-year revenue growth to deliver $3.64...