AI Summary29 Apr 202612 Dhuʻl-Qiʻdah 1447 AH
AI Summary
29 Apr 202612 Dhuʻl-Qiʻdah 1447 AH
Alibaba’s T-Head Unveils 400G SmartNIC “Panmai 920” with Built-in PCIe Switch
On April 28, T-Head, Alibaba's chip arm, launched the Panmai 920 SmartNIC, marking China's first 400G SmartNIC with a built-in PCIe switch. The product is already in mass production and being deployed in Alibaba Cloud data centers.
This launch comes amid a surge in demand for large model training and inference, with daily token usage exceeding 140 trillion in March 2026, a rise of over 1,000 times in two years. However, network infrastructure has struggled to keep pace with the rapid growth in AI computing power, creating a bottleneck.
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Alibaba’s T-Head Unveils 400G SmartNIC “Panmai 920” with Built-in PCIe Switch
On April 28, T-Head, Alibaba's chip arm, launched the Panmai 920 SmartNIC, marking China's first 400G SmartNIC with a built-in PCIe switch. The product is already in mass production and being deployed in Alibaba Cloud data centers.
This launch comes amid a surge in demand for large model training and inference, with daily token usage exceeding 140 trillion in March 2026, a rise of over 1,000 times in two years. However, network infrastructure has struggled to keep pace with the rapid growth in AI computing power, creating a bottleneck.
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