{"id":401227,"date":"2026-03-24T11:00:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-24T11:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/401227\/"},"modified":"2026-03-24T11:00:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T11:00:10","slug":"alibaba-debuts-its-latest-risc-v-based-chip-amid-shift-to-ai-agents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/401227\/","title":{"rendered":"Alibaba debuts its latest RISC-V-based chip amid shift to AI agents"},"content":{"rendered":"

Alibaba Group Holding<\/a>\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n

XuanTie C950, the latest flagship in Alibaba\u2019s XuanTie RISC-V series, was introduced at the company\u2019s annual ecosystem conference in Shanghai on Tuesday. Designed for high-performance tasks in cloud computing and AI computing, the C950 is a \u201cCPU core\u201d \u2013 the fundamental architecture for a chip \u2013 that Alibaba claims to be the most powerful of its kind globally.<\/p>\n

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

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 \u2013 programmes that are capable of autonomously performing tasks on behalf of a user or another system \u2013 are becoming the latest battlefield for Chinese tech companies, after the OpenAI-backed AI agent OpenClaw<\/a> 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.<\/p>\n

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

\"AlibabaAlibaba was an early mover in China\u2019s RISC-V space, launching the XuanTie series in 2018. Photo: Douyin<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Alibaba Group Holding\u2019s research arm Damo Academy has unveiled a chip designed to fuel artificial intelligence agents, as…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":401228,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[261],"tags":[291,8135,8472,19024,289,290,8473,381,182054,18,20095,19,3572,17,182053,307,103315,182055,2792,82,42952],"class_list":["post-401227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-ai-agents","tag-alibaba","tag-alibaba-group-holding","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-bytedance","tag-china","tag-damo-academy","tag-eire","tag-google-android","tag-ie","tag-intel","tag-ireland","tag-microsoft-windows","tag-openai","tag-risc-v","tag-risc-v-international","tag-shanghai","tag-technology","tag-tencent-holdings"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116283810025637872","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401227","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=401227"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401227\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/401228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=401227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=401227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=401227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}