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🔥Alibaba’s XuanTie chips have shipped more than 6 billion units to date.
Jianyi Meng, chief scientist at DAMO Academy, shared the figure at the 2026 RISC-V China Summit.
XuanTie is Alibaba DAMO Academy’s RISC-V processor IP brand, with C, E and R series covering high performance, energy efficiency and real-time processing.
Omdia’s forecast: global RISC-V processor shipments growing nearly 30% a year through 2030, reaching ~25% of all processor shipments that year.
DAMO Academy also released the E908A, its first automotive-grade enhanced chip.