At the RISC-V China Summit in Shenzhen, Alibaba's DAMO Academy said its Xuantie (Undying Iron) RISC-V processor family has shipped more than 6 billion units to date, and unveiled the E908A, its first automotive-grade enhanced RISC-V chip, targeting safety islands, domain controllers and in-vehicle gateways. The academy also laid out a roadmap for autonomous-driving and embodied-AI processors, with the next-generation C950A automotive chip aiming at five times the performance of today's RISC-V automotive parts and slated for around the end of 2027.
Server-class silicon is arriving too. SpacemiT, which put its K3 chip into humanoid robots that ran a marathon this year, launched the V100, billed as the industry's first computing chip to fully comply with the RISC-V server specification, alongside compute, AI and storage server system solutions. Lirui Wei, a ZTE subsidiary, showed the Zhumang 200 — described as the first RISC-V CPU designed for AI data centers — with native AI instruction acceleration and optimizations for KV-cache-heavy, long-context large-model inference; full specifications are due by year-end.
Analysts note RISC-V processor shipments are growing about 50 percent a year, and Omdia projects the architecture could hold roughly 25 percent of the processor market by 2030, as Chinese vendors use the open instruction set to push into the high-value automotive, AI and server segments long dominated by x86 and Arm.
Source: RISC-V China Summit via Stardaily/Tencent News, October 20, 2026
