Hyperscalers lead Gartner’s AI infra ranking; neoclouds step up as challengers
First-ever cloud AI infrastructure report pits hyperscale giants against agile, purpose-built neocloud alternatives
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Cisco unveils new ASIC for AI networks and next-gen security
Alibaba and Microsoft among early adopters
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Alibaba engineers unveil smart recovery tool that cuts network outages by 92%
Software-based solution exploits existing routing protocols to bypass network failures ‘instantly’
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Alibaba, Apple, and Synopsys become latest members of UALink Consortium
Consortium now has more than 65 members
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Baidu obtains just five percent of energy from renewable sources - Greenpeace
Report highlights mixed sustainability progress of China's tech giants
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Chinese companies exploiting sanctions loophole by accessing GPUs in the US - report
Chinese cloud providers have also attempted to establish data centers in the US to avoid sanctions
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Scaleway launches first RISC-V servers on the cloud
New instances are powered by Alibaba's T-Head RISC-V C910 SoC
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Alibaba and Baidu close quantum research labs
Neither company has given a reason for the closures, despite the Chinese government designating the technology a strategic priority
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Alibaba shuts quantum computing lab amid cutbacks
30 people set to lose jobs from closure of lab
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China’s Shandong University deploys RISC-V cloud cluster
Potentially the first commercial cloud deployment of a RISC-V cluster
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China's tech giants order $5bn in Nvidia chips, including 100,000 A800 GPUs for 2023
Local hyperscalers want to get in on generative AI explosion, but can only get pared-back chips
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Nvidia creates pared back H100 GPU for export to China, called H800
Worse data transfer rates to get past sanctions
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US government blacklists China's largest server maker Inspur, used by Cisco, IBM, Intel, Nvidia
Company is also a cloud provider in China