Alibaba Group Holding Limited (NYSE:BABA) has announced its next-generation XuanTie C950 5-nanometer processor, marking a significant stride towards agentic AI.
On Tuesday, Alibaba revealed the 3.2 GHz server chip at an internal conference. The chip, constructed using open-source RISC-V chip architecture, was hailed as “the highest performing RISC-V CPU in the world” at the conference hosted by DAMO Academy, Alibaba’s research arm, Reuters reported.
The XuanTie C950 delivers over three times the performance of its predecessor, the XuanTie C920. However, Alibaba has not revealed which foundry manufactured the chip. Built on the open-standard RISC-V architecture, it enables designers to tailor instruction sets and optimize performance for specific AI workloads—an advantage that is key to advancing AI agents.
Alibaba is ramping up its in-house chip efforts through T-Head, focusing on the Zhenwu 810E series for AI training and inference. Its XuanTie chips target high-performance cloud computing and agentic AI, alongside the launch of Wukong, an enterprise platform designed …
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