Alibaba's Xuantie C950 RISC-V CPU Runs Qwen 3.8B at 30 Tokens/s

Alibaba's T-Head Xuantie RISC-V team announced Day 0 support for Qwen-3.8, with its 64-core C950 CPU running the 3.8B model at 30 tokens per second. The result sparked Reddit discussion about running LLMs on CPUs without GPUs.

2026-08-18 ~ 2026-08-19 · 2 related posts

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• Alibaba's RISC-V XuanTie C950 runs Qwen 3.8B at 30 tokens/s — DeltaSqueezer · 2026-08-19