DCD Magazine #62 - The coming wave
Will compute at sea sink or swim?
News - Cloud & Hyperscale, Baidu
The latest news from the AI, data center, telco, chip, and cloud sector
DCD Magazine #62 out now
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Alibaba announces new AI chip for training and inferencing workloads
Zhenwu M890 has 144GB of GPU memory
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Chinese cloud providers hike up prices for cloud and AI services
Alibaba Cloud, Tencent, and Baidu hop on the bandwagon
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Baidu and Huawei account for 70% of China's GPU cloud market
Report covers the first half of 2025
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Baidu launches Kunlun M100 and M300 AI chips
Company also unveiled new Tianchi supernodes at its annual conference in Beijing
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Baidu obtains just five percent of energy from renewable sources - Greenpeace
Report highlights mixed sustainability progress of China's tech giants
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Alibaba cuts cloud services costs by up to 55%, JD drops prices
While Chinese tech giants hog AI-training computing resources
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Alibaba and Baidu close quantum research labs
Neither company has given a reason for the closures, despite the Chinese government designating the technology a strategic priority
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Changan Automobile and Baidu inaugurate AI data center
Chinese companies also to partner on cloud computing technologies, big data, and IoT
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Baidu announces $1 billion ESG bond offering
Company to spend money on sustainability projects around green buildings, energy efficiency, and renewable energy
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China's Baidu spins off semiconductor unit Kunlun Chip
But its unclear if its flagship AI chip will come to other clouds
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Oracle expands 2025 carbon pledge to include non-cloud facilities
Company’s Euro facilities are 100 percent renewable-powered but it has a long way to go in North America, Asia, and Africa.
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Nokia to provide DCI networks for Tencent and Baidu data centers
Scoring another big win over Huawei, this time in China
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Synergy: Hyperscalers’ capex in Q3 53% higher than in the same period last year
As AWS continues to lead public cloud market
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Synergy: Number of hyperscale data centers reaches 390
Expected to pass 500 milestone by 2020
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Baidu cloud deploys AMD's Epyc processors
First Microsoft, now Baidu
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Chinese cloud giants get Nvidia's latest
The biggest tech companies in China nab AI-friendly chips in data center upgrade
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Baidu Open Cloud gets big data, IoT and multimedia enhancements
Baidu, Alibaba and Tencent continue to compete for Chinese dominance