Alibaba just admitted it’s struggling to keep up with rival chipmakers and AI shops

Chinese tech giant Alibaba has revealed a new accelerator and accompanying rack-scale server rig without offering much detail about their performance – and also admitted it’s only been able to make chips in trivial quantities. The new chip is called the Zhenwu M890, and comes from Alibaba’s semiconductor design business T-Head. Neither company has said much about it other than stating it includes 144GB of on-chip memory, possesses “800 GB per second of inter-chip bandwidth” and natively supports