Alibaba says the Hanguang 800 chip has outperformed industry average with performance and computational efficiency outpacing graphic processing units commonly used for machine learning.
SINGAPORE (Sept 25): Alibaba has unveiled a new artificial intelligence (AI) inference chip called Hanguang 800.
Announced at the Alibaba Cloud’s Apsara computing conference, the new chip is a neural processing unit which specialises in accelerating machine learning tasks.
