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Alibaba's T-head Semiconductor is heading for a Hong Kong IPO, with cumulative AI chip shipments totaling 560,000 cards, ranking second in China's domestic market share.

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Beating AI News Brief, November 10: Alibaba announced plans to spin off its chip subsidiary T-Head Semiconductor for an independent listing in Hong Kong. In fact, T-Head had secretly submitted its listing application as early as September 11. The offering size and exact listing date have not been finalized, and the firm will remain an Alibaba subsidiary after going public. Alibaba disclosed that as of April this year, T-Head’s Zhenwu series AI chips had cumulatively shipped over 560,000 accelerator cards. In March, Alibaba CEO Wu Yongming also revealed T-Head’s annual revenue had reached the 10-billion-yuan mark. According to IDC statistics, in the first half of 2026, T-Head held a 7% share of China’s data center AI accelerator card shipments, ranking second among domestic manufacturers, only behind Huawei’s 28%. NVIDIA remained the overall market leader with a 34% share. On the performance front, the already commercialized Zhenwu M890 can connect 64 chips via high-speed interconnection to form a super node with 9TB of video memory, capable of running large models with over 2 trillion parameters such as Kimi K3. Engineers interviewed by Caixin noted that its cluster’s overall performance is comparable to NVIDIA’s H200, though public test data under identical conditions is still lacking. In September this year, T-Head also launched the Zhenwu V900, with the company claiming its single-chip performance is three times that of the M890, and it is scheduled to enter mass production in Q1 2027.

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