Neoverse V will not get a licence behind the bamboo curtain

ARM won't sell its latest Neoverse V series chips to Chinese tech giant Alibaba after concluding that the US and UK would not approve licenses to export them.

Chips do not have to be that advanced

Chinese chip makers have worked out that while chip specs have improved over the last ten years, they have not changed that much to make a difference to products.

Edge SoCs coming

Alibaba Cloud has released a development platform to help engineers building high-performance Systems-on-Chip (SoC) silicon based on the RISC-V open architecture.

Time to unplug the jukebox and do us all a favour

Billionaire Jack Ma plans to relinquish control of Ant Group as part of the fintech giant's effort to move away from affiliate Alibaba Group after more than a year of pressure from Chinese regulators.

Worked so well for Huawei

Having damaged Huawei, the US government is now setting its sights on destroying Alibaba’s cloud business to protect its own cloud businesses.

At least for 50 seconds

Billionaire Jack Ma’s 50-second video reappearance has done little to resolve Alibaba’s troubled relationship with regulators that is making some investors hesitate about owning the Chinese e-commerce giant’s shares.

Baidu wants too much money

Talks between Alibaba and Tencent to buy Baidu’s video streaming service have stalled over the price tag.

Peak in demand following coronavirus

Alibaba said it will invest $28 billion in its cloud infrastructure over three years after a boom in demand for business software as the coronavirus outbreak peaked in China.

Big contract

Xilinx has scored a big result by providing mega-etailer Alibaba with AI Acceleration.

First self-designed chip, Xuantie 910

Alibaba, China's largest e-commerce company, unveiled its first self-designed chip, Xuantie 910, based on the open source RISC-V instruction set architecture.