Nvidia to supply Chinese tech giants with Volta GPUs to power AI
Nvidia will supply Chinese behemoths Alibaba, Tencent and Baidu with its Volta-based graphics processing unit (GPU) hardware, designed to accelerate artificial intelligence (AI), as the firms upgrade their data centres and cloud services platforms. Nvidia's Volta-based system features the V100 GPU, said to be five times faster than its current Pascal series. 

The new chip is claimed to be up to five times more powerful than the current Pascal-based chips deployed by the Chinese firms