Alibaba says its new Zhenwu V900 is China’s most powerful AI chip
The most powerful AI chip in China today, delivering three times the performance of its predecessor, the Zhenwu M890.
That is how Eddie Wu described the processor Alibaba unveiled on Tuesday. The chief executive was speaking at Apsara, the company’s annual cloud conference, in Hangzhou.
The chip is the Zhenwu V900. Alibaba said in a post on X that it comes from T-Head, its chip design unit. The company says it handles both high precision model training and ultra low precision inference.
Two other announcements came with it. Alibaba plans models of up to 10 trillion parameters, and 20GW of data centre capacity by 2032.
What is inside the V900
T-Head has published a basic spec sheet for the chip. Simon Sharwood reported the numbers for The Register. The sheet lists 216GB of memory and 1,200 GB/s of inter-chip interconnect bandwidth.
The processor supports FP32 down to FP4 natively....
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