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Alibaba wants to expand data center capacity past 20 GW by 2032, says its new V900 AI chip can scale to 500,000-card clusters, but will 'China's most powerful AI chip' be enough to displace Nvidia GPUs?

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  • Alibaba's T-Head unveiled the Zhenwu V900 with 216GB of memory, 1.2TB/s links, and a claimed 3x gain over the already-shipping M890
  • Very few details associated with its raw performance: Alibaba gave no FLOPS, node, foundry, or power figures, and both specs it did share project it will trail Huawei's Ascend 960DT, which releases in the same quarter
  • CEO Eddie Wu targeted more than 20GW of Alibaba Cloud-operated capacity by 2032 while admitting supply-chain shortages are limiting growth for the company

Alibaba opened its annual Apsara Conference in Hangzhou with three big numbers: a chip that it says triples the performance of its predecessor, AI clusters that could stretch to 500,000 of those chips, and a pledge, quoted by the South China Morning Post, that the data centers Alibaba Cloud operates worldwide will pass 20 gigawatts of capacity by 2032.

CEO Eddie Wu called the new Zhenwu V900, designed by...

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Stranger Than Heaven director says the game's combat was inspired by old 'Ninkyo' Yakuza movies because the 'raw and gritty' action scenes fit Daito's character as an inexperienced fighter — 'We felt that atmosphere was what made those genres special'

* Stranger Than Heaven director Mikinobu Abe says the game's combat system was inspired by classic Ninkyo yakuza movies * He says the action scenes in those movies were "raw and gritty" and encapsulated the feeling RGG Studios wanted to showcase * Abe adds that the combat system also