Alibaba appears to be emulating NVIDIA’s well-established vertical integration playbook by bringing day-zero support for its highly capable Qwen-3.8 27B AI model – one that can run on just 32GB of VRAM – to its bespoke RISC-V chip, called XuanTie C950. Alibaba can now run its Qwen-series AI models on its own chips, carving out a hefty moat for itself in one of the world’s most competitive AI markets Alibaba unveiled the XuanTie C950 in March 2026, marketing the chip as a RISC-V-based offering for edge AI. Unlike typical ASICs, the XuanTie C950 does not rely on GPUs for AI […]
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