Baidu obtains just five percent of energy from renewable sources - Greenpeace
Report highlights mixed sustainability progress of China's tech giants
News - Baidu
The latest news from the data center, telco, and cloud sector
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Alibaba cuts cloud services costs by up to 55%, JD drops prices
While Chinese tech giants hog AI-training computing resources
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Impact of US GPU sanctions "minimal," Baidu claims
Tech giant's business plan assumes no access to leading-edge AI chips
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Alibaba and Baidu close quantum research labs
Neither company has given a reason for the closures, despite the Chinese government designating the technology a strategic priority
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Changan Automobile and Baidu inaugurate AI data center
Chinese companies also to partner on cloud computing technologies, big data, and IoT
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China's tech giants order $5bn in Nvidia chips, including 100,000 A800 GPUs for 2023
Local hyperscalers want to get in on generative AI explosion, but can only get pared-back chips
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Nvidia creates pared back H100 GPU for export to China, called H800
Worse data transfer rates to get past sanctions
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US government blacklists China's largest server maker Inspur, used by Cisco, IBM, Intel, Nvidia
Company is also a cloud provider in China
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Baidu launches first quantum computer, Fujitsu aiming to start own commercial operations in 2023
Baidu's 11 qubit system launches, planning 36 qubit soon
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Baidu's Kunlun II AI chips enter mass production
For cloud and Edge
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Baidu announces $1 billion ESG bond offering
Company to spend money on sustainability projects around green buildings, energy efficiency, and renewable energy
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China's Baidu spins off semiconductor unit Kunlun Chip
But its unclear if its flagship AI chip will come to other clouds
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Oracle expands 2025 carbon pledge to include non-cloud facilities
Company’s Euro facilities are 100 percent renewable-powered but it has a long way to go in North America, Asia, and Africa.
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Intel pitches Infrastructure Processing Unit as new data center DPU
Offloading processing to help out CPUs
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India bans TikTok, WeChat as tensions with China spiral
Leaving Chinese-backed data centers in India in the lurch
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Nokia to provide DCI networks for Tencent and Baidu data centers
Scoring another big win over Huawei, this time in China
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Tencent to build Chinese HPC data center for BMW self-driving car simulation
As BMW announces a new CEO to navigate the difficult road ahead
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Synergy: Hyperscalers’ capex in Q3 53% higher than in the same period last year
As AWS continues to lead public cloud market
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Synergy: Number of hyperscale data centers reaches 390
Expected to pass 500 milestone by 2020
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Baidu cloud deploys AMD's Epyc processors
First Microsoft, now Baidu
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Chinese cloud giants get Nvidia's latest
The biggest tech companies in China nab AI-friendly chips in data center upgrade
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Baidu partners with AMD on GPU software; Tencent and JD get Epyc
A good day to be AMD
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GDS Holdings rolls out first phase of Shenzhen data center
Already 100 percent leased
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Intel establishes AI division with head of Nervana Systems in charge
While Baidu expands its artificial intelligence efforts, despite the loss of a crucial executive
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Huawei, Alibaba and more join Xi Jinping at Davos
Globalization is good, climate change is real, and China is open for business, says China’s leader
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Greenpeace names and shames fossil fuel burners
AWS and Netflix called out on their use of oil and coal
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Baidu to use Xilinx FPGAs in its data centers
While Microsoft makes large claims about its gate arrays
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Baidu Open Cloud gets big data, IoT and multimedia enhancements
Baidu, Alibaba and Tencent continue to compete for Chinese dominance