{"id":17815,"date":"2026-03-24T09:27:33","date_gmt":"2026-03-24T09:27:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/alibaba-debuts-its-latest-risc-v-based-chip-amid-shift-to-ai-agents\/"},"modified":"2026-03-24T09:27:33","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T09:27:33","slug":"alibaba-debuts-its-latest-risc-v-based-chip-amid-shift-to-ai-agents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/alibaba-debuts-its-latest-risc-v-based-chip-amid-shift-to-ai-agents\/","title":{"rendered":"Alibaba debuts its latest RISC-V-based chip amid shift to AI agents"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Alibaba Group Holding<\/span>’s research arm Damo Academy has unveiled a chip designed to fuel artificial intelligence agents, as the tech giant bets on open-source RISC-V architecture to ride the wave of agentic AI.<\/div>\n

XuanTie C950, the latest flagship in Alibaba’s XuanTie RISC-V series, was introduced at the company’s annual ecosystem conference in Shanghai on Tuesday. Designed for high-performance tasks in cloud computing and AI computing, the C950 is a “CPU core” – the fundamental architecture for a chip – that Alibaba claims to be the most powerful of its kind globally.<\/p>\n

Alibaba owns the South China Morning Post.<\/p>\n

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Meng Jianyi, chief scientist at Damo Academy, said the C950 delivers more than three times the performance of the C920, a previous generation of the series which also targeted high-performance computing.<\/p>\n

The launch comes as AI agents – programmes that are capable of autonomously performing tasks on behalf of a user or another system – are becoming the latest battlefield for Chinese tech companies, after the OpenAI-backed AI agent OpenClaw<\/span> took the industry by storm. Tech giants like Alibaba, Tencent Holdings and ByteDance have rushed to launch their own versions or integrate the agent into their apps.<\/div>\n
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In technical terms, the new chip features an 8-instruction decode width and a 16-stage pipeline, which essentially means the chip can read and execute a vast number of commands.<\/p>\n

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Alibaba was an early mover in China’s RISC-V space, launching the XuanTie series in 2018. Photo: Douyin<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Alibaba Group Holding’s research arm Damo Academy has unveiled a chip designed to fuel artificial intelligence agents, as the tech giant bets on open-source RISC-V architecture to ride the wave of agentic AI. XuanTie C950, the latest flagship in Alibaba’s XuanTie RISC-V series, was introduced at the company’s annual ecosystem conference in Shanghai on Tuesday….<\/p>\n

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