Alibaba developed the T-Head PPU accelerator to compete with Nvidia

Alibaba's T-Head division has developed a new computing accelerator, the T-Head PPU, which is comparable in specifications to Nvidia's H20 graphics processing unit.

The chip was demonstrated to Chinese Premier Li Qiang during his visit to a China Unicom data center in Qinghai Province.

The T-Head PPU is equipped with 96 GB of HBM2e memory, supports the PCI Express 5.0 interface, and features a chip-to-chip interconnect with a bandwidth of approximately 700 GB/s. The power consumption of the new device is around 400 W, making it competitive in efficiency with Nvidia's solutions.

China Unicom's infrastructure already uses 16,384 T-Head PPU accelerators, providing a total performance level of 1,945 petaflops.

Source: scmp.com