Alibaba Bets On Its Own Chip

HangzhouAlibaba targets 20 gigawatts of datacenters, 20 reactors’ worth.

US export controls on Nvidia forced China’s hyperscalers to design their own chips.

CEO Eddie Wu unveiled the Zhenwu V900 chip, tripling its predecessor’s performance and scaling to clusters of 500,000 units.

Rivals build faster: Meta plans one 5-gigawatt campus, and Stargate has pledged 10 gigawatts by 2029.

The announcement lands two days before Xi meets Trump in Washington, with the chip’s production timeline still unannounced.

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