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

1 week 3 days ago
Sees optimizing its entire cloud around homebrew silicon as the way to compete

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.…

Simon Sharwood