Although new at the chip-making game, Alibaba are showing that there's loads of innovation to be made in AI-centric chip manufacturing and development.
This article looks at some of the major announcements and topics covered at Alibaba's Apsara Conference this year in Hangzhou.
At Apsara Conference 2019, Alibaba announces all-new AI chip named Hanguang 800, which boasts 10 times the computing power of traditional GPUs.
At Apsara Conference 2019, Alibaba unveiled Hanguang 800, its first AI inference neural processing unit (NPU) that specializes in the acceleration of machine learning tasks.