(Yicai) Jan. 29 -- T-Head Semiconductor, the chipmaking unit of Chinese internet giant Alibaba Group Holding that has been recently rumored to be planning an initial public offering, has released the product information of its self-developed artificial intelligence chip Zhenwu 810E.

Zhenwu 810E, which is equipped with a 96-gigabyte High Bandwidth Memory 2e and an inter-chip bandwidth speed of up to 700 GB per second, can be applied in the multimodal model training, inference, and autonomous driving fields, according to information published on T-Head's website today.

The performance of Zhenwu 810E is better than Nvidia's A800 and comparable to the US chipmaker's H20. Both the A800 and H20 were specially designed by Nvidia for China with lower performance levels to comply with the US high-end chip export control.

On Jan. 22, Bloomberg reported that Alibaba has decided to support T-Head's independent listing, joining the wave of Chinese chipmakers going public, led by Moore Threads Technology, Metax Integrated Circuits, and Biren Intelligent Technology. On the same day, Yicai contacted Alibaba, but the company declined to comment.

Alibaba has already applied Zhenwu 810E to the training and inference of its self-developed large language model Qianwen, Yicai learned from the Hangzhou-based firm. Zhenwu 810E, in combination with Alibaba's cloud products, is already providing services to more than 400 clients, including State Grid, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and electric vehicle startup Xpeng.

T-Head was established in 2018 from the integration of the chip team of Alibaba's Damo Academy and C-Sky Microsystems, a chip design company acquired by Alibaba. T-Head has previously launched several chip products, including AI inference chip Hanguang 800, server central processing unit Yitian 710, and solid-state drive controller chip Zhenyue 510.

Editors: Dou Shicong, Futura Costaglione