Alibaba DAMO Academy's XuanTie C950 Wins "China Chip" Annual Major Innovation Breakthrough Product Award

On November 2, the 2026 "China Chip" Integrated Circuit Industry Promotion Conference, themed "Intelligence Ignites the Chip Journey, Collaborative Symbiosis," and the 21st "China Chip" Outstanding Product Selection Results Announcement Ceremony were held in Hengqin, Zhuhai. The conference brought together academicians, experts, and industry representatives in the integrated circuit field to jointly exchange new paths for technological innovation and collaborative industrial development.

At this year's conference, XuanTie C950, under Alibaba DAMO Academy, won the "Annual Major Innovation Breakthrough Product Award," recognizing the substantive technological innovation breakthrough achieved by XuanTie C950 in the field of high-performance RISC-V processors. From being recognized at the previous edition as an outstanding supporting service enterprise and a RISC-V ecosystem promotion demonstration case, to this flagship processor winning a product innovation award, XuanTie continues to drive the industrialization of RISC-V through architectural innovation and ecosystem co-building.

Since its founding in 2006, the "China Chip" Integrated Circuit Industry Promotion Conference has been held 21 times and is the largest and most authoritative selection event in China's integrated circuit field, known as the "Oscars" of China's chip industry. Among them, the "Annual Major Innovation Breakthrough Product Award" is the most prestigious award among the China Chip awards, with the most stringent selection criteria, focusing on recognizing landmark products that achieve major breakthroughs in core technologies and possess international competitiveness.

This award is an important reflection of industry recognition for innovation achievements in high-performance RISC-V processors. Through technological innovations in microarchitecture innovation, AI extensions, multi-core collaboration, software compatibility, and security capabilities, XuanTie C950 provides a new foundation for partners to develop truly high-performance server and AI computing products. It not only expands the technical boundaries of XuanTie's flagship products but also represents a landmark breakthrough in the RISC-V field, providing the industry with diversified computing architecture choices and connecting open architecture innovation with high-end computing demands.

Flagship Breakthrough, Building a Benchmark Product

XuanTie C950 is a flagship RISC-V processor IP for server scenarios, continuously improving computing, memory access, and system collaboration capabilities around high-performance general computing and AI-related demands. Its innovative value lies in combining microarchitecture breakthroughs with platform capabilities to provide a foundation for partners to develop high-performance RISC-V products.

XuanTie C950 breaks the "low performance" label long attached to RISC-V. The processor adopts a microarchitecture design with 8-instruction decoding, a 16-stage pipeline, and an out-of-order window of over 1,000 instructions, with a maximum clock frequency of 3.2GHz. Its SPECint2006 single-core performance exceeds 70 points for the first time, setting a new global record for RISC-V processor performance. This result means that the RISC-V architecture, for the first time, has a computing foundation capable of competing head-on with traditional architectures in server-level scenarios.

XuanTie C950 simultaneously launches two RISC-V native AI acceleration engines, Vector and Matrix, which are uniformly addressed with the CPU core, enabling general computing power and AI computing power to be tightly coupled and coordinated within the same chip. XuanTie C950 thus for the first time enables native CPU support for running mainstream large models such as Qwen3.8-Flash-Next, Qwen3.5-4B, Qwen3-235B-A22B, and DeepSeek V4-Flash, expanding the CPU from a general scheduling role to a computing node that can directly carry large-model inference, pushing the capability boundary of RISC-V from traditional general computing to AI server scenarios.

XuanTie C950 supports all standard and optional extensions of RVA23.1 and natively integrates CoVE confidential computing capabilities, improving isolation and resource utilization in cloud multi-tenant environments. Through software-hardware collaborative optimization, it reaches industry-leading levels under typical cloud computing workloads such as MySQL, Redis, and Nginx, with cloud networking and cloud storage performance improved by more than 30% compared with some mainstream products, indicating that RISC-V performance breakthroughs can be directly translated into actual business benefits.

Ecosystem Progress, Creating Industrial Value

At present, the cumulative shipments of the full XuanTie processor series exceed 6 billion units, with more than 400 customers and more than 1,000 licenses. Around C950, XuanTie continues to invest in compilers, operating systems, compatibility testing, and other areas, promoting the improvement of GCC/LLVM toolchains, upstream contributions to OpenJDK, and the construction of RISC-V international standards, laying the foundation for the ecosystem maturity of the entire architecture.

XuanTie's technological innovation has been widely applied across thousands of industries, driving partners to achieve commercial breakthroughs. The Powered by XuanTie customers that won "China Chip" awards alongside XuanTie this time cover multiple key fields:

Shanghai Dongfang Suanxin Technology Co., Ltd., with its high-energy-efficiency software-defined near-memory computing 3D chip DF1000, equipped with XuanTie C908+C906, won the "Annual Major Innovation Breakthrough Product" award;

Zhuhai Allwinner Technology Co., Ltd., with its high-performance smart industrial SoC control chip T536, equipped with XuanTie E907, won the "Outstanding Technological Innovation Product" award;

Shenzhen Jiangyuan Technology Co., Ltd., with its cloud inference chip, equipped with XuanTie C908+E907, won the "Outstanding Technological Innovation Product" award;

Chongqing Wuqi Microelectronics Co., Ltd., with its high-performance Wi-Fi router chip, equipped with XuanTie E907, won the "Outstanding Technological Innovation Product" award;

Beijing Hongsi Electronic Technology Co., Ltd., with its reconfigurable algorithm chip HSRU3, equipped with XuanTie E906, won the "Outstanding Technological Innovation Product" award;

Beijing Qingwei Intelligent Technology Co., Ltd., with its reconfigurable AI chip TX81, equipped with XuanTie C908, won the "Outstanding Market Performance Product" award;

Zhuhai Taixin Semiconductor Co., Ltd., with its Wi-Fi/BLE/SparkLink tri-mode integrated audio and video wireless chip TXW82X based on the XuanTie E series processors, won the "Outstanding Market Performance Product" award;

Guangdong Jiangxin Chuang Technology Co., Ltd., with its D12X series smart screen display MCU chips based on the RISC-V architecture, equipped with XuanTie C906, won the "Chip Fire Rising Star Product" award;

Jiuchen Microelectronics (Hangzhou) Co., Ltd., with its TD1601 series high-performance RISC-V MCU, equipped with XuanTie E906, won the "Chip Fire Rising Star Product" award;

Shenzhen Maitexin Technology Co., Ltd., with its MEGA188 edge AI computing chip, equipped with XuanTie E902, won the "Chip Fire Rising Star Product" award.

These partners have jointly witnessed the broad application value and commercial potential of the RISC-V architecture. XuanTie moves forward together with China's semiconductor industry, guided by the philosophy of innovation, inclusiveness, and common development, transforming high-performance computing capabilities into deployable products and solutions and driving RISC-V toward broader industrial applications.

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Beijing Hongsi Electronic Technology Co., Ltd., with its reconfigurable algorithm chip HSRU3, equipped with XuanTie E906, won the "Outstanding Technological Innovation Product" award;

Beijing Qingwei Intelligent Technology Co., Ltd., with its reconfigurable AI chip TX81, equipped with XuanTie C908, won the "Outstanding Market Performance Product" award;

Zhuhai Taixin Semiconductor Co., Ltd., with its Wi-Fi/BLE/SparkLink tri-mode integrated audio and video wireless chip TXW82X based on the XuanTie E series processors, won the "Outstanding Market Performance Product" award;

Guangdong Jiangxin Chuang Technology Co., Ltd., with its D12X series smart screen display MCU chips based on the RISC-V architecture, equipped with XuanTie C906, won the "Chip Fire Rising Star Product" award;

Jiuchen Microelectronics (Hangzhou) Co., Ltd., with its TD1601 series high-performance RISC-V MCU, equipped with XuanTie E906, won the "Chip Fire Rising Star Product" award;

Shenzhen Maitexin Technology Co., Ltd., with its MEGA188 edge AI computing chip, equipped with XuanTie E902, won the "Chip Fire Rising Star Product" award.

These partners have jointly witnessed the broad application value and commercial potential of the RISC-V architecture. XuanTie moves forward together with China's semiconductor industry, guided by the philosophy of innovation, inclusiveness, and common development, transforming high-performance computing capabilities into deployable products and solutions and driving RISC-V toward broader industrial applications.

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