About T-Head (Alibaba)
Chip unit of Alibaba Group, set up in September 2018. Its CPU line includes the XuanTie RISC-V cores (XuanTie 910 in July 2019; the server-class C930 announced February 2025, with RVA23 compatibility and licensing to chip developers) and the Arm-based Yitian 710 cloud chip (October 2021). It also makes AI chips.
T-Head (Alibaba) was founded in 2018 and is based in Hangzhou, China. It is listed under CPUs & RISC-V, Custom Silicon, AI Accelerators.
Compute Technologies
- Custom Silicon
- AI Accelerators
What T-Head (Alibaba) works on
CPUs & RISC-V
A CPU, or central processing unit, is the general-purpose chip that runs a computer. It reads instructions, does arithmetic and logic, and decides what happens next. Every phone, laptop and server has at least one.
Custom Silicon
Custom silicon means a company designs its own chips for its own products or data centers instead of buying standard parts. The chip is made by a foundry such as TSMC, but the design belongs to the customer.
AI Accelerators
An AI accelerator is a chip, or a part of a chip, designed to run machine learning faster or with less energy than a general-purpose processor. The category includes GPUs, TPUs, neural processing units (NPUs) and chips from many startups.
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