Alibaba AI chips – China Unicom’s new Qinghai data center is powered partly by domestically developed processors, marking a key commercial win for Alibaba.
$390M investment – The facility aims for 20,000 petaflops capacity; it already runs at 3,579 petaflops, using nearly 23,000 local chips.
Homegrown AI hardware – Use of Alibaba, MetaX, and Biren chips reflects Beijing’s strategy to strengthen domestic semiconductor capabilities in critical infrastructure.
Chinese company Alibaba Group has secured a key customer for its artificial intelligence chips, with China Unicom deploying the technology in a major new data center in northwestern China.
Chinese state broadcaster CCTV released a video showing that China Unicom has installed Alibaba-made chips at its facility in Xining, Qinghai province. The site, representing an investment of about $390 million, is expected to reach 20,000 petaflops of computing capacity when fully built, according to the report.
Source: rcrwireless.com
