Alibaba’s semiconductor unit, T-Head, has reportedly data-analytics-id=”inline-link” href=”https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/china-spotlights-major-data-centre-project-using-domestic-chips-2025-09-17/” target=”_blank” data-url=”https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/china-spotlights-major-data-centre-project-using-domestic-chips-2025-09-17/” referrerpolicy=”no-referrer-when-downgrade” data-hl-processed=”none”>developed a new AI processor that it claims matches the performance of Nvidia’s H20 — the GPU built specifically for the Chinese market that’s currently data-analytics-id=”inline-link” href=”https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/gpus/nvidia-h20-gpus-reportedly-caught-up-in-u-s-commerce-departments-worst-export-license-backlog-in-30-years-billions-of-dollars-worth-of-gpus-and-other-products-in-limbo-due-to-staffing-cuts-communication-issues” data-before-rewrite-localise=”https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/gpus/nvidia-h20-gpus-reportedly-caught-up-in-u-s-commerce-departments-worst-export-license-backlog-in-30-years-billions-of-dollars-worth-of-gpus-and-other-products-in-limbo-due-to-staffing-cuts-communication-issues”>stuck in geopolitical purgatory.
The demonstration aired Tuesday, September 16, on China Central Television (CCTV), during a broadcast covering Premier Li Qiang’s visit to China Umicom’s Sanjiangyuan Energy Intelligent Computing Centre in Qinghai. In the segment, T-Head’s new “PPU”…
