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Alibaba’s Chip Unit Wants to Go Public. Who Pays It?

Alibaba says more than 60% of T-Head’s computing capacity serves customers outside the group. Some of them are carmakers that use its Zhenwu chips to develop driver-assistance systems. They can do that by renting computing power from Alibaba Cloud, without ever buying a chip from T-Head. For Alibaba, that is a sale. For someone buying […]

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Alibaba says more than 60% of T-Head’s computing capacity serves customers outside the group. Some of them are carmakers that use its Zhenwu chips to develop driver-assistance systems. They can do that by renting computing power from Alibaba Cloud, without ever buying a chip from T-Head. For Alibaba, that is a sale. For someone buying