{"id":129199,"date":"2021-10-19T13:22:43","date_gmt":"2021-10-19T20:22:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/10\/alibaba-just-unveiled-one-of-chinas-most-advanced-chips"},"modified":"2021-10-19T13:22:43","modified_gmt":"2021-10-19T20:22:43","slug":"alibaba-just-unveiled-one-of-chinas-most-advanced-chips","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/10\/alibaba-just-unveiled-one-of-chinas-most-advanced-chips","title":{"rendered":"Alibaba Just Unveiled One of China\u2019s Most Advanced Chips"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/alibaba-just-unveiled-one-of-chinas-most-advanced-chips2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. unveiled a new server chip that\u2019s based on advanced 5-nanometer technology, marking a milestone in China\u2019s pursuit of semiconductor self-sufficiency.<\/p>\n<p>The Chinese tech giant\u2019s newest chip is based on micro-architecture provided by the SoftBank Group Corp.-owned Arm Ltd., according to a statement Tuesday. Alibaba, which is holding its annual cloud summit in Hangzhou, said the silicon will be put to use in its own data centers in the \u201cnear future\u201d and will not be sold commercially, at least for now.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCustomizing our own server chips is consistent with our ongoing efforts toward boosting our computing capabilities with better performance and improved energy efficiency,\u201d said Jeff Zhang, president of Alibaba Cloud Intelligence and head of Alibaba\u2019s research arm Damo Academy. \u201cWe plan to use the chips to support current and future businesses across the Alibaba Group ecosystem.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. unveiled a new server chip that\u2019s based on advanced 5-nanometer technology, marking a milestone in China\u2019s pursuit of semiconductor self-sufficiency. The Chinese tech giant\u2019s newest chip is based on micro-architecture provided by the SoftBank Group Corp.-owned Arm Ltd., according to a statement Tuesday. Alibaba, which is holding its annual cloud summit [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,1523],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-129199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-computing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129199"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129199\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}