{"id":362407,"date":"2026-03-24T10:50:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-24T10:50:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/362407\/"},"modified":"2026-03-24T10:50:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T10:50:07","slug":"alibaba-debuts-its-latest-risc-v-based-chip-amid-shift-to-ai-agents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/362407\/","title":{"rendered":"Alibaba debuts its latest RISC-V-based chip amid shift to AI agents"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/topics\/alibaba?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">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<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">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<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Alibaba owns the South China Morning Post.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">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<p>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 <a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/topics\/openclaw?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">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<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">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<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Alibaba was an early mover in China\u2019s RISC-V space, launching the XuanTie series in 2018. Photo: Douyin\" data-qa=\"BaseImage-handleRenderImage-StyledImage\" class=\"e1gf69pb2 css-6ikqhs e445x7d0\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/c7b25428-41e0-49e8-9a15-61726b25374c_d0a34ef0.jpg\" title=\"Alibaba was an early mover in China\u2019s RISC-V space, launching the XuanTie series in 2018. Photo: Douyin\"\/>Alibaba was an early mover in China\u2019s RISC-V space, launching the XuanTie series in 2018. 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