Alibaba's research arm promises server-class RISC-V processor due this year

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And teases a laptop to show off its current silicon – running the open edition of Huawei's CentOS spinout

www.theregister.com/, Mar. 20, 2024 – 

Alibaba's research arm, the Damo Academy, has promised to deliver a server-grade RISC-V processor later this year, showed off a RISC-V-powered laptop running the open source cut of Huawei's CentOS spinout, and talked up a growing community working on the permissively licensed CPU instruction set architecture.

News of the forthcoming server processor – dubbed the C930 – emerged at last week's Xuantie RISC-V Ecological Conference held in Shenzhen. Numerous Chinese media reported that Damo reps announced the imminent debut of a processor that, like other chips cooked up by the Alibaba lab and its T-Head chip design unit, are aimed at server-class workloads. It's 2024, so that means AI is also on the agenda.

Details of the chip were not discussed.

But Damo Academy folk did discuss a new laptop called the RuyiBOOK that will run the T-Head C910. That chip, curiously, no longer appears on the chip designer's website but the Wayback Machine reveals that it offered between one and four cores, a 12-stage superscalar pipeline optimized for arithmetic operations, and a design suitable for edge servers, AI, and telecoms applications.

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