Alibaba announced yesterday to wholly purchase C-SKY, the only self-embedded CPU IP Core company in China.

ZHANG Jianfeng says: “Purchasing C-SKY is an important step in Alibaba’s “chip layout.”

It is said that Alibaba DAMO Academy is now researching on a neural network chip – Ali-NPU, which will be applied in image & video analysis, machine study and other AI deductive calculation. Its cost performance will be 40 times higher than current like products according to the design.