151 news items tagged Alibaba
Global server market – 4Q 2020
Monday 1 February 2021Fourth-quarter 2020 global server shipments amounted to 3.84 million units, down 9.6% quarter-over-quarter but up 12.6% year-over-year.
Datacenter operators eye liquid cooling solutions for servers with next-generation CPUs
Thursday 31 December 2020As Intel and AMD are expected to release their next-generation server CPUs in the first quarter of 2021, US- and Europe-based datacenter operators have accelerated their paces in...
Alibaba sees increased 3Q20 revenues
Wednesday 11 November 2020China-based e-commerce operator Alibaba Group has reported consolidated revenues of CNY155.059 billion (US$22.84 billion) for third-quarter 2020, up 0.85% sequentially and 30.28%...
Global server market – 3Q 2020
Wednesday 4 November 2020Global server shipments, after reaching the peak of 2020 in the second quarter, are estimated to have slipped 6% sequentially in the third quarter as demand began to turn weak and...
Datacenter operators turn to liquid cooling
Monday 14 September 2020Datacenter operators have been adopting liquid cooling solutions for their facilities to improve thermal dissipation from new hardware that is generating more heat, and to address...
China Internet service providers mull switching to US cloud platforms
Thursday 10 September 2020The US Clean Network program has prompted China-based Internet service providers to mull switching from Alibaba's Aliyun cloud computing platform to non-Chinese operators such as...
Taiwan to see more cloud businesses shifted from Hong Kong
Thursday 6 August 2020Taiwan is emerging as an increasingly important destination for international cloud service providers to set up new footholds as Hong Kong is losing luster in the sector due to China's...
Global server market – 2Q 2020
Monday 3 August 2020Second-quarter 2020 global server shipments enjoyed a strong growth thanks to soaring demand for cloud computing services and from the work-from-home (WFH) segment in addition to...
Foxconn revving up to expand presence in cloud server sector
Tuesday 28 July 2020Having obtained orders from Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft, Foxconn Technology Group (Hon Hai Precision Industry) is gearing up to win orders from Facebook and Google seeking...
Nvidia A100 GPU adopted in more server products
Wednesday 8 July 2020Following the penetration into the supply chain of Google Cloud's Compute Engine platform, Nvidia has recently obtained more orders for its A100 GPU from the US-based cloud computing...
Cloud providers to increasingly adopt liquid cooling technology
Wednesday 17 June 2020With power consumption of servers rising due to increased CPU and GPU performances, traditional air cooling solutions are becoming less efficient in heat dissipation, prompting more...
Alibaba sees 1Q20 revenues down sequentially
Monday 25 May 2020China-based e-commerce operator Alibaba Group has reported consolidated revenues of CNY114.314 billion (US$16.14 billion) for first-quarter 2020, decreasing 29.20% sequentially but...
Global server market – 1Q 2020
Friday 8 May 2020According to Digitimes Research's statistics and analyses, first-quarter 2020 global server shipments are estimated to come to 3.65 million units, representing a 16.9% on-quarter...
Alibaba chipmaking subsidiary to emerge as major client of TSMC
Thursday 7 May 2020Pingtouge, Alibaba's semiconductor subsidiary, has stepped up its AI and server related chip development while extending its ties with TSMC and Global Unichip, and has the potential...
Taiwan PCB makers eyeing 5G infrastructure, HPC applications for 2020 growth
Tuesday 21 April 2020Taiwan-based PCB makers are expected to see robust demand for 5G base stations, servers, networking equipment and HPC devices significantly drive up their shipments in 2020 while...
Alibaba sees increased 4Q19 revenues
Monday 17 February 2020China-based e-commerce operator Alibaba Group has reported consolidated revenues of CNY161.456 billion (US$23.19 billion) for fourth-quarter 2019, increasing 35.66% sequentially and...
Sustainability and digitalization: Q&A with Covestro CEO Markus Steilemann
Tuesday 3 December 2019Germany-based Covestro, spun off from the Bayer Group in September 2015, is now among the world's leading makers of premium polymers with 30 production bases and around 16,000 employees...
Alibaba sees increased 3Q19 revenues
Tuesday 19 November 2019Alibaba Group has reported consolidated revenues of CNY119.017 billion (US$16.65 billion) for third-quarter 2019, increasing 3.56% sequentially and 39.78% on year.
Covestro doing well in digitalizing chemical solutions sales
Friday 18 October 2019Germany's Covestro, a leading supplier of specialty chemical and plastics materials, has performed well in global digitalized business development, which is expected to contribute...
TSMC 7nm process attracts multiple orders for AI processors
Friday 4 October 2019TSMC with its competitive 7nm process technology has obtained orders for made-for-AI chip processors from Nvidia, Xilinx and Qualcomm, and a number of China-based vendors such as...
More Chinese firms developing advanced-node CPUs in-house
Friday 27 September 2019More China-based firms have become keen on in-house development of new-generation CPUs and GPUs, allowing Taiwan IC design service providers, especially those associated with TSMC,...
PolyU, Alibaba team up to launch FashionAI Dataset
Thursday 5 September 2019To reinforce application of AI to the fashion industry, Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU) has developed the world's first FashionAI Dataset in collaboration with e-commerce...
Alibaba sees sharp growth in 2Q19
Friday 16 August 2019Alibaba Group Holding has announced its revenues for the second quarter of 2019 grew 42% on year to RMB114.924 billion (US$16.741 billion).
AI to replace human jobs, lifelong learning needed to counter, says Morris Chang
Thursday 6 June 2019Data and computing capability will be a decisive key to success in the upcoming AI and IoT era, and as AI will be able to handle a high portion of existing human jobs, people had...
TSMC 7nm process attracts orders for AI chip from Alibaba
Thursday 16 May 2019Pingtouge Semiconductor, Alibaba's semiconductor subsidiary, reportedly has placed orders for 7nm chip solutions with Global Unichip and TSMC.
- Alibaba founder Jack Ma appears for the first time since crackdown on his tech empire (Jan 19) - CNBC
- US shelves plans for investment ban on Alibaba, Tencent and Baidu, say insiders (Jan 14) - South China Morning Post
- Alibaba and Tencent shares fall after report says they could be added to U.S. blacklist (Jan 7) - CNBC
- Alibaba founder Jack Ma is lying low for the time being, but he's not missing (Jan 5) - CNBC
- Is the Ant Group shake-up a sign of things to come? (Dec 30) - BBC News
- Alibaba shares plummet after announcement under antitrust probe (Dec 29) - Yahoo! Finance
- Alibaba being investigated by China over monopoly tactics (Dec 24) - BBC News
- Alibaba and two other firms fined for not reporting deals to Chinese regulators (Dec 14) - CNBC
- Alibaba CEO strikes conciliatory tone on China's plans for tougher tech regulation (Nov 23) - CNN
- China's tech giants have lost more than $250 billion in market value as regulatory concerns mount (Nov 11) - CNBC