Alibaba's T-Head unveils Zhenwu V900 AI accelerator, tripling predecessor and scaling to 500,000 units

Alibaba's T-Head division unveiled the Zhenwu V900 AI accelerator, which it says triples its predecessor's performance and can scale to clusters of up to 500,000 units. Alibaba calls it China's most powerful AI chip and positions it as a competitor to Nvidia.

• Zhenwu V900 triples the performance of T-Head's previous accelerator
• Clusters can scale to up to 500,000 chips
• Alibaba calls it China's most powerful AI accelerator
• The chip is positioned to compete with Nvidia