Alibaba’s Damo Academy said more than 6 billion chips based on its XuanTie RISC-V processor designs have shipped, as the company expands into AI and automotive systems amid the US-led export restrictions.

Chief scientist Meng Jianyi announced the figure at the RISC-V Summit China in Shenzhen.

The figure appeared to cover cumulative shipments, though it was unclear whether it included chips made by Alibaba’s partners.

RISC-V is an open instruction-set architecture, an alternative to proprietary chip architectures such as those from Intel and Arm.

XuanTie includes the open-source Xuantie C910 core from Alibaba’s T-Head chip unit.

Meng cited Omdia forecasts that global RISC-V processor shipments would grow by nearly 30% a year and reach about 25% of the worldwide processor market by 2030.

Omdia separately said AI would accelerate adoption.

Officials and lawmakers in the US have raised concerns that China could use RISC-V to circumvent chip export controls.

🔗 Source: South China Morning Post

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