Chinese tech giant claims better performance than competing GPUs
Custom compute for the Chinese cloud
When it comes to spinning custom chips to improve the efficiency and economics of cloud computing, Amazon Web Services gets a lot of credit. The American e-tail giant and cloud titan has developed everything from custom CPUs, AI training and inference accelerators, and smartNICs to offload many housekeeping workloads.
And while Google has developed an accelerator of its own, called the Tensor Processing Unit , most US cloud providers have largely stuck with commercially available parts from the likes of Intel, AMD, Ampere, Broadcom, or Nvidia, rather than designing their own. However, in China, custom chips appear to be more prevalent, with development an imperative accelerated byIn addition to its Canghai video chips, Tencent also created the Zixiao AI"reasoning" chip which it's deployed internally, plus the Xuanling network processor. The latter is designed to offload and accelerate networking, storage, and compute workloads, which sounds an awful lot like a smartNIC.its custom Arm CPUs and DPUs.
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