Signage on the Alibaba Group Holdings Ltd. headquarters in Hangzhou, China, on Wednesday, March 24, 2021.
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GUANGZHOU, China — Chinese language e-commerce large Alibaba launched a brand new server chip on Tuesday, because it appears to be like to spice up its cloud computing enterprise and compete towards U.S. rivals like Amazon.
The processor, referred to as Yitian 710, will go into new servers referred to as Panjiu.
The chip and servers won’t be immediately bought to clients. As a substitute, Alibaba’s cloud computing shoppers will purchase providers based mostly on these newest expertise. These servers are designed for synthetic intelligence purposes and storage.
The corporate didn’t say when the providers based mostly on the newest chip and server might be out there for purchasers.
Alibaba won’t be manufacturing the semiconductor however might be designing it as an alternative.
That is a pattern amongst Chinese language firms. Huawei designed its own smartphone chips and Baidu raised cash this yr for a standalone semiconductor business. U.S cloud computing rivals together with Google and Amazon have additionally executed the identical.
