World working together ‘as one ecosystem’ on RISC-V chip research: executive

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.

Advertisement World working together ‘as one ecosystem’ on RISC-V chip research: executive Alibaba vice-president Qi Xiaoning says global tech firms continue to build a unified, open-standard ecosystem amid rising geopolitical barriers 2-MIN READ2-MIN Listen Global 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 Alibaba Group Holding https://www.scmp.com/topics/alibaba?module=inline&pgtype=article .Speaking at the South China Morning Post’s 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.” “Collaboration in RISC-V is already the reality; it’s happening.” RISC-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 . The architecture has surged in popularity in China because it is free to use and modify, as Beijing and local businesses 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 Select Voice Select Speed 1.00x