Alibaba Cloud's homegrown Arm CPUs emerge in VM trial

Alibaba Cloud has started accepting requests from customers to preview an instance type powered by the home-grown Arm CPUs it revealed last year. The Yitian 710 processor boasts 128 Armv9-compatible CPU cores that can operate at up to 3.2 GHz. Eight DDR5 channels and 96 PCIe 5.0 lanes are aboard, accounting for some of the 60 …

[Anonymous Coward]

So...

100 guinea pigs at 4 vCPUs each...meaning Alibaba bought 4 of these 128 core servers on Wish and is now offering free trials during the burn-in?

[Pascal Monett]

"China, where independence from US-sourced tech is a national goal"

As well it should be for many reasons and for many other countries as well.

Eggs in the same basket and such.

Besides, competition is always good in the long run, so I think more companies making and selling CPUs, RAM, network equipment and computer platforms means more choice for everyone and less chance of global shortages generally speaking.

And, of course, there will be the fun of reading a whole new slew of NSA paranoia about how everything made in China phones home without any proof or pics to back it up.

[Anonymous Coward]

Does this chip come from the rogue ARM China outfit?

[DS999]

ARM does not design SoCs, just cores. This was most likely designed by Alibaba using standard ARM cores along with other standard blocks for DDR, PCIe etc.