{"slug": "world-working-together-as-one-ecosystem-on-risc-v-chip-research-executive", "title": "World working together ‘as one ecosystem’ on RISC-V chip research: executive", "summary": "Global cooperation on the RISC-V chip architecture remains resilient despite US-China tech rivalry, Alibaba vice-president Qi Xiaoning said at the South China Morning Post's China Conference 2026, noting that major companies from the US, China, India, Brazil, and Europe are working together as a unified ecosystem on the open-standard architecture for edge and cloud applications.", "body_md": "Advertisement\n\n# World working together ‘as one ecosystem’ on RISC-V chip research: executive\n\nAlibaba vice-president Qi Xiaoning says global tech firms continue to build a unified, open-standard ecosystem amid rising geopolitical barriers\n\n2-MIN READ2-MIN\n\nListen\n\nGlobal cooperation on the RISC-V chip architecture remains resilient despite intense US-China technological rivalry, according to a chip veteran at Chinese e-commerce and AI giant\n\n[Alibaba Group Holding](https://www.scmp.com/topics/alibaba?module=inline&pgtype=article).Speaking at the South China Morning Post’s\n\n[China Conference 2026](https://chinaconference.scmp.com/)on Tuesday, Alibaba vice-president Qi Xiaoning said major companies from around the world including the United States, China, India, Brazil and Europe were working together “as one unified ecosystem” on the RISC-V open-standard chip architecture for edge and cloud applications.“When we use a single architecture, people from different continents, different cultural backgrounds, we get together, we work together and make friends,” Qi, a semiconductor veteran, told the audience. “And also like trade, [we] promote friendship between different countries.”\n\n“Collaboration [in RISC-V] is already the reality; it’s happening.”\n\nRISC-V, which stands for fifth-generation reduced instruction set computer, is an open-standard instruction set architecture and a highly accessible blueprint that enables users to design central processing units (CPUs).\n\nThe architecture has surged in popularity in China because it is free to use and modify, as Beijing and local businesses\n\n[race to reduce their reliance](https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3348168/chinas-tech-self-sufficiency-drive-reaches-new-milestone-powerful-risc-v-chips?module=inline&pgtype=article)on foreign proprietary technology amid Washington’s tightening tech curbs.Advertisement\n\nSelect Voice\n\nSelect Speed\n\n1.00x", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/world-working-together-as-one-ecosystem-on-risc-v-chip-research-executive", "canonical_source": "https://www.scmp.com/tech/tech-war/article/3359765/world-working-together-one-ecosystem-risc-v-chip-research-executive?utm_source=rss_feed", "published_at": "2026-07-07 13:48:22+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-07-07 14:09:17.961844+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-chips", "ai-infrastructure"], "entities": ["Alibaba Group Holding", "Qi Xiaoning", "South China Morning Post", "China Conference 2026", "RISC-V"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/world-working-together-as-one-ecosystem-on-risc-v-chip-research-executive", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/world-working-together-as-one-ecosystem-on-risc-v-chip-research-executive.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/world-working-together-as-one-ecosystem-on-risc-v-chip-research-executive.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/world-working-together-as-one-ecosystem-on-risc-v-chip-research-executive.jsonld"}}