Alibaba's XuanTie C950 CPU Hits 70+ SPECint2006, Claims RISC-V Record with Native LLM Support

Alibaba's DAMO Academy launched the XuanTie C950, a RISC-V CPU scoring over 70 on SPECint2006—the highest single-core performance for the architecture—with native support for billion-parameter LLMs like Qwen3 and DeepSeek V3. Alibaba's XuanTie C950 CPU Hits 70+ SPECint2006, Claims RISC-V Record with Native LLM Support Alibaba's DAMO Academy has unveiled the XuanTie C950 , a RISC-V-based CPU that the company claims delivers the highest single-core performance ever recorded for the open-source instruction set architecture (ISA). The processor reportedly scores over 70 points on the SPECint2006 benchmark and features architectural extensions specifically designed for native, efficient inference of billion-parameter large language models (LLMs), including Alibaba's own Qwen3 and DeepSeek's DeepSeek V3 . This launch follows Alibaba's recent strategic pivot toward AI infrastructure, announced just days earlier at its ModelScope DevCon, where it committed to releasing more open-source Qwen mo