Compute
Arm Is The New RISC/Unix, RISC-V Is The New Arm
When computer architectures change in the datacenter, the attack always comes from the bottom. …
Alibaba
Compute
Alibaba Rumored To Enter The Arm Server Chip Race
The chip cold war between China and the United States continues to heat up like a processor with a heat sink that it is a little too small. …
Compute
Alibaba’s Key to Cryptosecurity is Its Own Quantum Platform
Like all hyperscalers, Alibaba has been carving its own path through the early quantum computing landscape, starting with a cloud-based service rooted in their own 11-qubit quantum system along with simulators, including one 32-qubit that is available as a service with demonstration of a 64-qubit simulator via work with the Chinese Academy of Sciences. …
Compute
The Prospects For An Arm Server Insurrection
If you want to break into datacenter compute in a sustainable way, it takes the patience of a glacier. …
Cloud
Vertically Unchallenged
Components make compute and storage servers, and servers with application plane, control plane, and data plane software running atop them or alongside them make systems, and workflows across systems make platforms. …
Code
China’s Hyperscalers Strive to Keep Pace in Open Source
We have a good sense of what projects U.S. companies open source but when it comes to Chinese webscale companies, most notably the big three—Baidu, Alibaba, and Tencent—that ecosystem is less public and not often discussed. …
Compute
Alibaba On The Bleeding Edge Of RISC-V With XT910
It was just over a year ago that the RISC-V Foundation, the group shepherding the chip architecture in what over the past decade has become an active and crowded processor market, ratified the base instruction set architecture (ISA) and related specifications. …
Connect
Vertical Integration Is Eating The Datacenter, Part Two
It is funny to think of the modern datacenter as an appliance, like an iPhone, but in the cases of the hyperscalers and the very largest public cloud builders, this is more or less what they are building. …
Cloud
Alibaba Rolls Own Distributed File System for Cloud Database Performance
There is much value in separating storage from compute, particular for cloud database deployments. …
AI
China’s Global Cloud and AI Ambitions Keep Extending
Gone are the days of early warehouse scale computing pioneers that were based in the U.S.. …