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Server CPU · China

T-Head Yitian 710

Alibaba's first cloud-native Arm server CPU with 128 Armv9 cores, 8-channel DDR5 and 96 PCIe 5.0 lanes, deployed only inside Alibaba Cloud data centers (c8y/g8y/r8y ECS instances) since late 2022. Not sold as a merchant product.

ChinaLimited availabilityAlibaba T-Head (Pingtouge)Yitian familyLaunched 2021-10-195nm (reported)

Pricing not publicly disclosed · researched 2026-08-27

Specifications

Sourced specs

SpecValueSource
Cores128 Armv9 (pure 64-bit) cores, up to 3.2GHz (2.75GHz in Alibaba Cloud ECS)via m.c114.com.cn2021-10-19
Memory8-channel DDR5via m.c114.com.cn2021-10-19
I/O96 lanes PCIe 5.0via m.c114.com.cn2021-10-19
Process / transistors5nm, ~60 billion transistorsvia m.c114.com.cn2021-10-19
Peak perf markerVendor claims >20% performance vs industry-standard benchmark Arm server chip; no public SPECint figurevia aliyun.com2022-11
DeploymentPowers Alibaba Cloud ECS c8y (compute), g8y (general), r8y (memory-optimized) instances since November 2022via developer.aliyun.com2022-11

Pricing

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Notes

  • Pricing not publicly disclosed (Alibaba-internal part; consumed inside Alibaba Cloud, not sold to third parties).
  • Its economics are only observable indirectly via Aliyun g8y/c8y/r8y instance hourly prices.

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