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Alibaba unveils Zhenwu V900 AI chip and a 20-gigawatt cloud plan

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6 min read · 24 September 2026

Alibaba's chip unit T-Head unveiled the Zhenwu V900 AI processor at the Apsara Conference on September 22, claiming three times the performance of its previous chip and targeting more than 20 gigawatts of global data-centre capacity by 2032.

Summary

Zhenwu V900 is a training and inference chip built by Alibaba's T-Head unit
Alibaba claims three times the performance of the Zhenwu M890 launched in May
V900 clusters scale to 500,000 cards; mass production starts in Q1 2027
Alibaba Cloud wants over 20 GW of global data-centre capacity by 2032

Sources (6)

www.alibabacloud.com/blog/alibaba-unveils-roadmap-on-full-stack-ai-strategy-from-chips-cloud-infrastructure-models-to-agents_603589
www.alibabacloud.com/blog/aliviews-eddie-wu-shares-alibabas-strategic-full-stack-ai-roadmap-at-the-2026-apsara-conference_603595
www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/alibaba-unveils-zhenwu-v900-ai-accelerator-claims-its-the-most-powerful-ai-chip-in-china-accelerator-supports-500-000-chip-supercluster-with-a-10t-parameter-qwen-model-on-the-roadmap
techwireasia.com/2026/09/alibaba-ai-chip-zhenwu-v900-20gw-supply-squeeze
technode.com/2026/09/22/alibaba-unveils-zhenwu-v900-ai-chip-as-it-targets-20gw-of-cloud-data-centers-by-2032
www.thelec.net/news/articleView.html?idxno=14122

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