Alibaba and China Telecom launch 10,000-chip AI data centre using own chips
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The news: Alibaba and China Telecom are launching a data centre in Shaogon, Guangdon province in southern China to be powered by Alibaba’s own chips.
The numbers: The e-commerce giant said the 10,000-card cluster powered by its Zhenwu AI chips is the first project of this scale in the Greater Bay Area. The Zhenwu chips are designed for AI training and inferencing, supporting large AI models.
The context: The move underscores China’s efforts to advance domestic semiconductor technology as Beijing competes to become self-sufficient in the AI race.
The facility, announced on Tuesday, will be owned and operated by China Telecom.
The new cluster showed China’s advanced computing power was “moving from high-end performance breakthroughs to large-scale industrial implementation”, Alibaba Cloud said on Tuesday, the SCMP reported. Alibaba also announced its plans to expand the scale of the cluster to 100,000 cards, to further lower costs and improve the efficiency of computing resources.
The sources: CNBC, South China Morning Post, QZ
