Alibaba's XuanTie C950 wins China Chip major innovation award
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Alibaba DAMO Academy's XuanTie C950, a server-grade RISC-V processor IP, won the "Major Innovation Breakthrough Product" award at the 2026 "China Chip" conference in Zhuhai on November 2, according to Leiphone (雷峰网).
The report says the chip reaches 3.2GHz, posts a RISC-V single-core SPECint2006 score above 70, and runs Qwen and DeepSeek large models natively on its CPU through built-in Vector and Matrix AI engines. Leiphone also says XuanTie processors have shipped more than 6 billion units to over 400 customers.
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AIAlibaba DAMO Academy's XuanTie C950, a server-grade RISC-V processor IP, won the "Major Innovation Breakthrough Product" award at the 2026 "China Chip" conference in Zhuhai on November 2. The chip reaches 3.2GHz and sets a RISC-V single-core SPECint2006 score above 70, and it runs Qwen and DeepSeek large models natively on its CPU through built-in Vector and Matrix AI engines. XuanTie processors have shipped more than 6 billion units to over 400 customers.
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