Alibaba's TSMC-Built 5nm RISC-V Chip, XuanTie C950, Now Runs Qwen-3.8 27B Model Natively, Unlocking Massive Vertical Integration Tailwinds

Now that is cool... it's a custom 64-core RISC-V implementation with its own matrix instructions that can run desktop inference at 30tok/s (with Qwen3.8-27B) without a GPU.

However, this is technically just an IP core. And even though it has been tested in hardware prototypes, there are no mass-produced products that are using it yet that we know of.