Alibaba Will Design Its Own Chips: Pushed By China, Promoting Self- Reliance
Alibaba is being pushed by China to manufacture its chips instead of depending on the international market.
The communist Party f China forced the Company and pushed to develop its chips as the country knows that this is the biggest eCommerce Website and also it contributes to the largest economy in the country.
Highlighted Facts
- China is willing to reduce the dependence on the US in terms of Technology imports.
- To reduce reliance on the US, China is Pushing Alibaba to make its processor chips.
- Including Alibaba many others companies like Tencent and Xiaomi also trying to make their chips.
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The country’s government commented on its decision as to the “Technology Power” and also commended the Company that none other eCommerce Company has tried for such innovative work.
T-Head is a 3-year-old chip unit that revealed the next and third processor in October and it is named the ‘Yitian 710’ but, only for the Alibaba and its purpose use and further Alibaba told that for now, it doesn’t have any plan to sell the chip to others.
Now a Day’s, China’s Communist Party is paying more attention to the Reliance of the world’s best companies like Alibaba and Xiaomi in the manufacture of Chips and other material that helps in the manufacture of technology like mobiles and other gadgets.
The government also pushed the giant companies to manufacture the Chips and other material that is a part of the manufacturing goods and make himself self- reliance.
President Xi Jinping said in his past speech about increasing the Reliance on itself as “Self-reliance is the foundation for the Chinese Nation,” and also said that China should be the “technology Superpower” to “safeguard “National –Economic Security”.
He also added, “We must strive to become the world’s main center of Science and the high ground of innovation”.
Peter Hanbury, a follower of the industry the Bain & Co said “it’s very hard to imagine any one country rebuilding all of that and having the best technology”.
The war situation in terms of the technology and economy between both the countries is continuous going on and as China compelled its companies to avoid the import of technology goods from the US, the UN Secretary-general in September said “Washington and Beijing avoid that the world becomes separated”
Here the demand of customers by the US from different countries can be seen and as we know that the china’s companies are the Giant companies in terms of Mobile phone and other technical goods hence now the US official needs the support and collaboration of China.
The hanging 800, the First chip made by T Head was announced in 2019for the purpose of artificial intelligence, and the second chip known as Xuantie910, and the purpose of this chip was to manufacture self-driving cars and their function.
In November, at the meeting of Asia Pacific leaders in Malaysia, Xi Jinping said “We will never go back in history by seeking to decouple”.
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