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A separate listing would give T-Head its own financing channel, while Alibaba's plan to retain control preserves an organizational basis for working with the group's data centers.
According to IT之家, Alibaba said in a filing that the Hong Kong Stock Exchange has confirmed it may proceed with the proposed spin-off of T-Head, its wholly owned subsidiary. T-Head submitted a confidential A1 listing application on September 11, 2026, seeking a Main Board listing of its H shares in Hong Kong. Alibaba said the plan would be done through a global offering, and T-Head is expected to remain a subsidiary after completion. Alibaba said the listing could better reflect T-Head’s data center chip business value.
Alibaba Cloud gives T-Head a place to deploy new chips at scale. An independent listing would put more attention on how broadly the hardware and related services can sell beyond the group.
The chatbot has ended up on the same road as the search engine: gather users with a free product, then sell their attention to advertisers.
From halting the RTX Pro 6000D to asking for RTX Pro 5500 orders, Beijing is deciding Nvidia chips model by model, and how much it lets in depends on how much domestic chips can cover.
The 20GW is written in power and buildings but staked on T-Head's output; under export controls, China's compute ceiling is set by its own chips.
How many local European customers these regions win will depend on whether Alibaba clears EU data scrutiny, not on how fast it builds.
Ten trillion parameters is the target for outsiders; a 500,000-card cluster is the premise that makes it real, and Alibaba bound the two together.
Domestic HBM going from zero to something changes not the performance ceiling but whether China's AI chips can be scheduled on their own clock.
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