It will be interesting to see if this is a custom SOC in the sense they took some off the shelf IP, or if they are creating a new microarchitecture.

A SOC based on existing IP is a solid investment, but nothing like the scale of investment required for a new microarchitecture.

"Named "Yitian 710", the processor was built on a 5nm process and boasts 128 Arm v9 cores" https://www.theregister.com/2021/10/19/alibaba_yitian_710_ar...

Thanks, how does this compare for matrix multiplication and logistical regression to other machine learning specific cores though, like a GPU or one of those Google Tensor Cores? These Alibaba chips don't seem like they'd do very well at those tasks, but are just great all purpose CPUs

almost amusing how mainstream media cant figure out a single technically interesting or useful thing to say about this event. thanks for finding something useful to relay about this effort.