Alibaba Group’s semiconductor unit T-Head on Thursday launched its self-developed high-end AI chip, Zhenwu 810E, the company said. Built on a fully in-house technology stack, the chip is equipped with 96GB of HBM2e memory and 700GB/s of inter-chip bandwidth, with performance comparable to NVIDIA’s H20, while some upgraded versions can surpass the A100, according to industry insiders. The chip has been deployed in 10,000-card clusters on Alibaba Cloud, serving more than 400 customers, including State Grid, the Chinese Academy of Sciences and XPeng Motors, and has been deeply optimised for the training and inference of its Qwen large language models. The launch marks Alibaba’s push to strengthen its full-stack capabilities across large models, cloud computing and self-developed chips. [Technode Reporting]
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