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Alibaba's Pingtouge GPU chips have been delivered in large quantities to a total of 470,000 units.​


On March 19, Alibaba revealed in its Q3 FY2026 earnings call that its self-developed GPU chip, Pingtouge, has achieved mass production, with a cumulative delivery of 470,000 units as of February 2026. In Alibaba Cloud's actual business scenarios, over 60% of Pingtouge chips serve external commercial customers, having completed large-scale adaptation for external customer AI tasks, supporting AI tasks for over 400 enterprise customers across multiple industries including internet, financial services, and autonomous driving.

Public information shows that Pingtouge Semiconductor was established in September 2018 and is a wholly-owned semiconductor chip business entity of Alibaba Group. Pingtouge has a full-stack product series integrating edge and cloud, covering data center chip channel promotion, IoT chips, etc., achieving full coverage of the end-to-end chip design chain.

On January 29, Alibaba's Pingtouge official website launched product information for the PPU "Zhenwu 810E". This chip is fully self-developed in terms of software and hardware, and has been deployed in multiple multi-card clusters on Alibaba Cloud, serving more than 400 customers including State Grid, Chinese Academy of Sciences, XPeng Motors, and Sina Weibo.

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GulfLander said:
there seems to be Chinese Scientist/researcher deaths reported recently.

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A remote sensing scientist and a guy on hypersonic weapons, fail to understand how they are related to each to other. The remote sensing scientist suffered from a medical neurological condition and the hypersonic weapons scientist was 68, not exactly a young man, no mention of health issues, if he drink, smoke, high pressure or was having high stress. There are millions of engineers and scientist in China.

What is your point? something is going on? China should go and kill US scientists in revenge?
 
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Paper on public research funding trendlines and where that takes us in the near future.

China is on the cusp of becoming the world’s biggest public funder of research, according to a forecast by US academics, as stalled growth in government investment in the United States coincides with consistent rises in spending by the Chinese authorities. The analysis — produced exclusively for Nature Index — was the work of researchers from Frontiers in Science and Innovation Policy (FSIP), a programme at the University of California, San Diego, that studies the US research and development (R&D) system and examines the extent to which public and private funding boost technological development.

Government spending on R&D in China increased by 90% to US$133 billion in the decade leading up to 2023,
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from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). By contrast, in the United States, spending rose by just 12%, to $155 billion. According to the FSIP’s forecast, China’s public spending on research is likely to overtake that of the United States in the next two to three years. “I think the earliest likely is 2028, plus [or] minus one year,” says Robert Conn, a specialist in research policy and science philanthropy, who co-leads the FSIP. “It could be next year, could be 2029.”
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tokenanalyst said:
A remote sensing scientist and a guy on hypersonic weapons, fail to understand how they are related to each to other. The remote sensing scientist suffered from a medical neurological condition and the hypersonic weapons scientist was 68, not exactly a young man, no mention of health issues, if he drink, smoke, high pressure or was having high stress. There are millions of engineers and scientist in China.

What is your point? something is going on? China should go and kill US scientists in revenge
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where and when did i said those? my own words were:
there seems to be Chinese Scientist/researcher deaths reported recently.
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what you said are yours.
 
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