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Alibaba aims to undercut US chipmakers’ dominance

Alibaba entered the club of webscale network operators (WNOs) developing their own chips recently, joining Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google. The Chinese e-commerce giant announced plans, in September 2018, to develop its own customized neural netw...read more

Facebook’s Plan To Design Its Own AI Chips Has Set Alarm Bells Ringing For Qualcomm, Nvidia And Intel

[Ed. note: see Sept. 2018 publication, Webscale Network Operators: 3Q18 Market Landscape] Rumors about Facebook’s likely entry in the hardware segment were put to rest after the company posted job openings for chip designers. Facebook was looki...read more

May 30, 2018 By Matt Walker Artificial intelligence (AI), Capex, Chips, Data centers, R&D, Webscale/Hyperscale