Chips, big news! The Chinese Academy of Sciences announces: Launch! Tencent, Alibaba, ByteDance, and others participating

Major Chip News!

On March 26, at the 2026 Zhongguancun (000931) Forum Annual Conference RISC-V (the fifth-generation Reduced Instruction Set Computing) Ecosystem Technology Forum, the Chinese Academy of Sciences announced a series of major achievements in key RISC-V technology breakthroughs, industrial collaboration, innovation, and talent development. They launched the “Xiangshan” open-source computing system and the “Ruyi” native RISC-V operating system, two significant results. At the same time, they officially initiated the joint development plan for the next-generation “Kunming Lake” open-source high-performance RISC-V processor and the “Ruyi” operating system.

As the fundamental “core technology” of the chip industry, instruction set architecture is the core underlying foundation of processor chip design. The fifth-generation RISC-V, with its open-source, flexible, and efficient core features, does not require patent fees and supports independent modifications. It has become a key tool for breaking through traditional technological paths and building a new global shared processor ecosystem. It is also an important technical route for China to overcome chip ecosystem barriers and develop autonomous and controllable computing power.

The newly released “Xiangshan” high-performance RISC-V processor has achieved international advanced performance levels. Bao Yungang, Deputy Director of the Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, introduced that the “Xiangshan” (Kunming Lake) processor core is currently the most powerful and active open-source RISC-V processor core globally. The “Xiangshan” (Nanhuh) processor for terminal devices covers data centers, intelligent computing, and terminal scenarios comprehensively. Meanwhile, the team has simultaneously developed the world’s first open-source on-chip network for data centers, “Wenyu River,” and the first open-source on-chip interconnect IP for terminals, “Zhujiang,” filling gaps in high-performance open-source on-chip interconnect technology. This has made “Xiangshan” a leading international open-source high-performance RISC-V processor system.

Notably, “Xiangshan” has successfully achieved industrialization, marking the world’s first product-level delivery and large-scale application of high-performance open-source chips. Bao Yungang stated that the core of this industrialization success is the innovative path of bringing high-performance open-source chips into practical industry applications. The Chinese Academy of Sciences has partnered with Beijing to establish the Beijing Open-Source Chip Research Institute, gathering dozens of industry-leading companies through an open-source model to enable mutual empowerment in technology R&D and industry needs.

Currently, companies such as Jindie Space-Time, Lanxin Computing Power, Chip Motion Technology, and Yiswei Computing have successfully launched commercial chips based on the “Xiangshan” processor, significantly reducing chip R&D costs and promoting open-source chips from laboratory experiments to large-scale production.

Alongside “Xiangshan,” the “Ruyi” native RISC-V operating system is the core software support for the “Xiangshan” series chips. It fully supports international standards, further consolidating China’s leading position in open-source software. Wu Yanjun, Deputy Director of the Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences, said that software-hardware collaboration is key to RISC-V ecosystem development. The “Ruyi” system achieves deep adaptation and optimization with “Xiangshan” and other domestically produced core hardware, fundamentally changing industry pain points where hardware and software breakthroughs were previously isolated, poorly integrated, and weak in collaboration. It promotes China’s RISC-V ecosystem from “hardware and software breakthroughs in isolation” to “software-hardware collaborative innovation and ecosystem integration.”

To date, “Xiangshan” and “Ruyi” have led the formation of China’s dominant open-source root community, solidifying the ecosystem foundation for the development of open-source chip industry.

At the forum, the joint R&D plan for the next-generation “Kunming Lake” open-source high-performance RISC-V processor and the joint development plan for the “Ruyi” operating system were officially launched. It is understood that the next-generation “Kunming Lake” joint R&D plan will focus on higher performance, lower power consumption, stronger compatibility, and more comprehensive security, continuously enhancing “Xiangshan”’s global competitiveness in high-end computing. The “Ruyi” joint development plan will gather industry, academia, research, and application forces across the entire chain to build cross-field and cross-industry R&D teams, achieving integrated progress in technology development, scenario adaptation, and ecosystem compatibility. Companies such as China Mobile, China Telecom, ZTE, Alibaba, Tencent, and ByteDance will participate in collaborative efforts, covering the entire industry chain from chips, operating systems, terminals, to applications, accelerating the formation of an innovation system with close integration of industry, academia, research, and application.

(Edited by: Wang Zhiqiang HF013)

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