Alibaba’s T-Head builds China’s Nvidia alternative

The Zhenwu M890 ships at scale—and a two-generation roadmap follows behind it.

May 28, 2026

Jon Peddie

Alibaba’s T-Head subsidiary unveiled the Zhenwu M890, a GPU-class AI accelerator targeting the domestic Chinese market that Nvidia can no longer fully serve. The chip delivers 0.6 PFLOPs FP16 and 144 GB HBM3, ships in a full rack-scale server, and already has 560,000 units out the door. For ISVs and silicon teams building for China, and for IT decision-makers tracking AI supply chain resilience, the M890 and its roadmap through 2028 signal that China’s domestic AI compute ecosystem is becoming structurally self-sufficient. Alibaba unveiled the Zhenwu M890 at its annual Cloud Summit on May 20, 2026. The chip is T-Head’s

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