Alibaba Cloud claims its new Aegaeon pooling system reduces the number of Nvidia GPUs required to serve large language models by 82% during a multi-month beta test inside its Model Studio marketplace. The result, published in a peer-reviewed paper presented … Read more
Introduction# I was recently in the market for a new FPGA to start building my upcoming projects on. Due to the scale of my upcoming projects a Xilinx series 7 UltraScale+ FPGA of the Virtex family would be perfect, but … Read more
T-HEAD is a wholly owned subsidiary of Alibaba, one of China’s largest tech companies. Over the past few years, T-HEAD has created a line of RISC-V cores. Alibaba seems to have two motivations for pushing RISC-V. On one hand, the … Read more
Rumours of an impending break-up of Alibaba have been swirling for a while. Chinese regulators had long been leery of its market power over the online economy, where its interests spanned e-commerce, digital payments, cloud-computing, entertainment and much else besides. … Read more
Chinese tech giant Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. BABA -0.90% plans to split its business into six independently run entities, the biggest structural overhaul in its history—announced a day after co-founder Jack Ma was seen back in mainland China after almost … Read more
Alibaba introduces a range of RISC-V processors in the last few years with the Xuantie family ranging from the E902 micro-controller class core to the C910 core for servers in data centers. This also includes the XuanTie C906 core found … Read more
In 2018, Alibaba founded T-Head, a fabless semiconductor subsidiary with the intention of designing custom in-house ASICs. T-Head has since introduced a number of custom chips including the Hanguang 800 neural processor and various RISC-V processors. At the company’s Apsara … Read more
Alibaba Group has been slapped with a record 18.2 billion yuan ($2.77 billion) fine for breaching China’s antitrust regulations and “abusing [its] market dominance”. The Chinese e-commerce giant says it will “accept” the ruling, which marks the culmination of an … Read more