Alibaba's research division, the Damo Academy, recently announced expansion of its RISC-V efforts, which includes the Xuantie C907 matrix compute core and the Xuantie C930 datacenter-oriented processor, according to Sohu. The server-grade CPU is expected to be launched this year, reports The Register.
One of the ways for Chinese companies to sidestep U.S. export curbs regarding high-performance computing and artificial intelligence technologies is by developing their own processors for AI and HPC based on their own cores (based on the RISC-V instruction set architecture, or ISA). Alibaba's T-Head chip division was one of the first companies to realize the potential of the RISC-V ISA a few years ago — so it has quite a lot of experience with the technology by now.
