Alibaba Introduces XuanTie C950: China’s Most Powerful AI Chip

At its annual ecosystem conference in Shanghai on Tuesday, Alibaba unveiled the XuanTie C950, the newest flagship of its XuanTie RISC‑V series. The chip, a CPU core designed for demanding cloud and AI workloads, is touted by Alibaba as the most powerful of its kind worldwide. Alibaba’s chief scientist at Damo Academy, Meng Jianyi, highlighted that the C950 delivers more than three times the performance of the earlier C920 model, which also targeted high‑performance computing. The announcement comes amid a growing race among Chinese tech firms to dominate the AI agent market. Alibaba, which also owns the South China Morning Post, positioned the C950 as a key component for future AI and cloud infrastructure.