Alibaba Pushed by China to Design Its Own Chips to Promote Self-Reliance

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Alibaba is being pushed by China’s ruling Communist Party to take on the tricky, expensive business of designing its own processor chips, to help make China a self-reliant “technology superpower” — a business, unlike anything the world’s biggest e-commerce company has done before. Its 3-year-old chip unit, T-Head, unveiled its third processor in October, the … Read more

Alibaba Pushed by China to Design Its Own Chips to Promote Self-Reliance

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Alibaba is being pushed by China’s ruling Communist Party to take on the tricky, expensive business of designing its own processor chips, to help make China a self-reliant “technology superpower” — a business, unlike anything the world’s biggest e-commerce company has done before. Its 3-year-old chip unit, T-Head, unveiled its third processor in October, the … Read more