Alibaba's RISC-V CPU, XuanTie C950, Runs Qwen-3.8 27B at 30 tps
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SummaryAlibaba's XuanTie C950, a RISC-V CPU, is reported to run the Qwen-3.8 27B language model at roughly 30 tokens per second, highlighting growing capability of RISC-V silicon for local LLM inference.
Why it mattersSpecific RISC-V inference benchmark on a 27B model is uncommon and signals where commodity CPU-based local LLM execution may be heading.
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