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Alibaba enables five super data centers to support China's biggest annual shopping spree
To support Alibaba's record-breaking transaction peaks, five super data centers, including Zhang Bei, Ulanqab, Heyuan, Nantong and Hangzhou, will work together to provide computing power during the Singles Day shopping festival on November 11, said Zhou Ming, vice president of Alibaba Group and head of Alibaba Cloud's infrastructure unit.ย
Alibaba's Hanguang 800 AI processor has been put to use, delivering 4-11x better performance than GPUs
A year ago, Alibaba unveiled its first AI chip, the Hanguang 800, the most powerful AI reasoning chip at the time. The company recently shared an update on the Hanguang 800's progress nearly a year after its launch.
China's hot stock market raises demand for cloud services from brokers
In the past few days due to the sudden surge in trading volume in the Chinese stock market, Alibaba Cloud, or Aliyun has received expansion requests from several securities firms to address their app data delays and trading logjams.