{"id":257812,"date":"2026-01-22T10:54:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-22T10:54:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/257812\/"},"modified":"2026-01-22T10:54:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T10:54:09","slug":"alibaba-to-plan-ipo-for-ai-chipmaking-unit-t-head-bloomberg-news-reports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/257812\/","title":{"rendered":"Alibaba to plan IPO for AI chipmaking unit T-Head, Bloomberg News reports"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"yf-vbsvxt\">Jan 22 (Reuters) &#8211; China&#8217;s Alibaba is preparing to list its chipmaking arm, T-Head, Bloomberg \u200bNews reported on Thursday, citing people \u200cfamiliar with the matter.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-vbsvxt\">Alibaba&#8217;s U.S.-listed shares rose 4.6% premarket after \u200cthe report.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-vbsvxt\">As a first step, Alibaba plans to restructure the unit as a business partly owned by employees before exploring an initial public \u2060offering, though the \u200ctiming remains unclear, the report said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-vbsvxt\">Reuters could not immediately verify the report. \u200dAlibaba did not immediately respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-vbsvxt\">The process is still at an early stage \u200band the potential valuation of the unit \u200cremains unclear, according to the report.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-vbsvxt\">Founded in 2018, T-Head Semiconductor is Alibaba Group&#8217;s wholly owned semiconductor chip unit, developing a range of processors from data center and <a href=\"https:\/\/tech.yahoo.com\/ai\/\" data-ylk=\"slk:artificial intelligence;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">artificial intelligence<\/a> chips \u2060to Internet-of-Things products across the \u200bfull chip design stack.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-vbsvxt\">In \u200bNovember, Alibaba launched a major upgrade to its AI chatbot with a free \u200dconsumer-facing app \u2060based on its most advanced Qwen large language model, as it stepped up efforts \u2060to close the gap with domestic rivals in China&#8217;s AI \u200crace.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-vbsvxt\">(Reporting by Bipasha Dey in Bengaluru; \u200cEditing by Devika Syamnath)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jan 22 (Reuters) &#8211; China&#8217;s Alibaba is preparing to list its chipmaking arm, T-Head, Bloomberg \u200bNews reported on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":257813,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[220,8065,218,219,61,60,128218,128217,80],"class_list":{"0":"post-257812","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-alibaba","10":"tag-artificial-intelligence","11":"tag-artificialintelligence","12":"tag-ie","13":"tag-ireland","14":"tag-semiconductor-chip","15":"tag-t-head","16":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257812","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=257812"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257812\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/257813"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=257812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=257812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=257812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}