Alibaba gets Android 16 running on RISC-V
Beijing’s sovereign stack ambitions strengthen
Alibaba’s research and development operation, DAMO Academy, has adapted Android 16 to run on its homebrew RISC-V silicon.
A Monday social media post claims that the Academy got Android 16 running on XuanTie 9-series processors. Alibaba didn’t say which of those chips run Android 16, a matter of interest because the 9-series ranges from modest models all the way up to AI-optimized server processors. But the outfit has claimed, without pushback, that it’s the first to get an RVA23 processor running Android 16.
DAMO says it has shared its work with “the first batch of XuanTie strategic customers” d hopes they will use it to “accelerate the exploration of new RISC-V smart terminal scenarios and significantly shorten the cycle from chip prototype to product launch.”
The term “Smart terminal” is a machine translation artefact. The Reg has seen it appear in Chinese texts that...
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