By Nitin Dahad, EETimes
July 26, 2019
Alibaba Group’s chip subsidiary, Pingtouge Semiconductor, this week announced what it claims is the most powerful RISC-V based processor, the Xuantie 910, targeting infrastructure for artificial intelligence (AI), 5G, and internet of things (IoT) as well as autonomous vehicles.
Revealed at the Alibaba Cloud conference in Shanghai, Pingtouge said its processor achieves 7.1 Coremark/MHz at a frequency of 2.5GHz on a 12nm process node, which is 40% more powerful than any RISC-V processor produced to date.