Alibaba's core chip entity behind their PPUs, T-Head, just filed a business registration change lifting registered capit…

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Alibaba's T-Head semiconductor unit, the entity behind its AI PPUs, files a business registration change raising its capital more than threefold from RMB 300 million to RMB 1 billion while shifting its corporate shareholder from DAMO Academy to PingtouGe (Shanghai) Electronics.

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T-Head's registered capital increased from RMB 300 million to RMB 1 billion, a more than 3x increase.
T-Head's corporate shareholder was changed from DAMO Academy to PingtouGe (Shanghai) Electronics in the same filing.
T-Head is the core chip entity responsible for Alibaba's PPU (AI processing unit) development.

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Alibaba's core chip entity behind their PPUs, T-Head, just filed a business registration change lifting registered capital from RMB 300mn to RMB 1 Bn, a >3x increase.

The same filing also moved its shareholder from DAMO Academy to PingtouGe (Shanghai) Electronics.