Alibaba’s Strategic Push: Advancing AI Chips and Logistics Automation

Chinese e-commerce and technology conglomerate Alibaba Group is making significant strides in its artificial intelligence infrastructure, announcing a new high-performance processor and plans to list its semiconductor unit. Despite these strategic developments, investor sentiment remained cautious, with the company’s shares closing lower on Friday.

On January 29, Alibaba’s chip division, T-Head, introduced the Zhenwu 810E, a high-end processor designed for AI workloads. The company claims this chip matches the performance of Nvidia’s H20 model and is built on a proprietary hardware and software architecture.

Key technical specifications include:
– 96 GB of HBM2e memory
– An inter-chip interconnect bandwidth of 700 GB/s
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