Canonical
on 22 October 2025
Alibaba Damo Academy and Canonical today announce a new collaboration to bring the Ubuntu operating system to the latest XuanTie C930 processor. This collaboration will give users access to a robust, reliable and production-ready platform for modern workloads running on the XuanTie processor family, helping to advance RISC-V adoption.
Enhanced Ubuntu experience on XuanTie
Alibaba Damo Academy, the team behind the XuanTie processor family, drives advancements in intelligent and secure computing architectures built around the RISC-V ecosystem. Alibaba Damo Academy and Canonical are collaborating to enhance Ubuntu support on XuanTie, helping to drive greater RISC‑V maturity and enabling smoother integration into the expanding RISC-V landscape. This partnership focuses on strengthening community collaboration within the RISC‑V ecosystem, and improving software readiness on XuanTie platforms using Ubuntu and RVA23 as the profile and platform of choice.
Since both Alibaba Damo Academy and Canonical are members of the RISC-V Software Ecosystem (RISE), the joint efforts will help accelerate open source adoption and promote consistent interoperability between hardware and software. A key aspect of this work includes alignment with the RVA23 profile, designed to improve portability across hardware designs and simplify development, further advancing the RISC‑V ecosystem’s growth and accessibility.
For developers and XuanTie users, this partnership will deliver an integrated Ubuntu experience for XuanTie hardware all backed by Canonical’s trusted long-term support and rigorous security maintenance.
“We are very excited to be partnering with Alibaba Damo Academy to bring Ubuntu to the latest XuanTie platform. Our teams have already done great work together on a community level for earlier XuanTie processors like the C906 and showing Ubuntu running on a XuanTie C930 FPGA at the Shanghai RISC-V Summit in July 2025. This partnership represents the next step in deepening our relationship and we look forward to working with Alibaba Damo Academy to get Ubuntu into the hands of even more XuanTie developers,” said Cindy Goldberg, Vice President of Silicon Alliance at Canonical.
“We are excited to deepen our collaboration with Canonical, marking another important step toward the real-life applications of RISC-V. Together, we have successfully brought Ubuntu to multiple ecosystem products based on the XuanTie processor. Moving forward, we look forward to advancing our joint work and continuing to unlock the value of RISC-V in various computing scenarios, while further contributing to the growth of the RISC-V community.” said Jing Yang, Vice Present of RISC-V at Alibaba Damo Academy.
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