Huawei has also unveiled its own AI chips highlighting how China's technology giants are pushing the country's homegrown semiconductor industry.
Jeff Zhang, chief technology officer at Alibaba, unveils the company's first artificial intelligence chip called the Hanguang 800. It was announced at the Apsara Computing Conference on September 25, 2019.unveiled its first chip to power artificial intelligence processes on Tuesday. The move could boost its already fast-growing cloud computing business and signals China's growing ambitions in developing its own homegrown semiconductor industry.
Alibaba said that the chip is currently being used internally within the company's business operations, especially in product search and automatic translation on e-commerce sites, personalized recommendations, advertising, and "intelligent customer services." These are areas that require extensive computing tasks and the chip can help speed things up.
Employing the chip in its own cloud computing business could allow Alibaba to sell new cloud services to its customers. The cloud business is Alibaba's fastest-growing division and has been flagged by management as aThe Chinese e-commerce titan is the biggest cloud player by market share in the mainland, and within the top five in the world.by a long way. Alibaba will be hoping new innovations like its AI chips can help attract more customers.
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