Alibaba CEO Eddie Wu stated on Aug. 20 that the corporate’s second-generation T-Head chip is predicted to start tape-out and manufacturing within the second half of this yr. Alibaba stated the chip will supply stronger computing efficiency and interconnect bandwidth, and that the corporate believes it may possibly help large-model coaching workloads.
An Alibaba Cloud supernode constructed across the Zhenwu M890 chip has already entered scaled gross sales. Alibaba additionally stated its T-Head unit has developed a full-stack chip portfolio masking GPUs, CPUs and networking chips, whereas the Zhenwu product line had served greater than 650 clients by early August. [[IT Home, in Chinese]