Alibaba just admitted it’s struggling to keep up with rival chipmakers and AI shops
Reveals decent new homegrown accelerator and tiny production volumes
Chinese tech giant Alibaba has revealed a new accelerator and accompanying rack-scale server rig without offering much detail about their performance – and also admitted it’s only been able to make chips in trivial quantities.
The new chip is called the Zhenwu M890, and comes from Alibaba’s semiconductor design business T-Head. Neither company has said much about it other than stating it includes 144GB of on-chip memory, possesses “800 GB per second of inter-chip bandwidth” and natively supports precision formats from FP32 down to FP4.
The Chinese giant didn’t offer any info about performance other than to say it delivers “three times the performance of its predecessor, Zhenwu 810E.” Based on the specs of the old and new devices, we think the M890 might give Nvidia’s 2024-vintage H200 a run for its money.
That means the most interesting figure in Alibaba’s...
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