Recently, RISC-V leading company Ruisi Semiconductor held a grand 2025 Spring Product Launch Conference at the Qianhai International Conference Center in Shenzhen, where it unveiled the next-generation high-performance Lingyu processor. The Lingyu processor is China’s first fully self-developed high-performance RISC-V server chip, achieving international mainstream levels in computing power, energy efficiency, and interface configuration, suitable for applications such as high-performance computing, all-flash storage, and open-source large language models like Deepseek. With the launch of the Lingyu processor, the high-performance RISC-V ecosystem is gradually taking shape and moving towards large-scale deployment, targeting the trillion-level intelligent computing market.
At this Lingyu processor launch event, the most anticipated RISC-V high-performance solution was jointly released by industry leaders such as SanNuo, Lenovo, and Great Wall, marking the successful establishment of a complete technology and product ecosystem around the Lingyu processor. This will strongly promote the large-scale deployment of RISC-V in the high-performance server market, providing a new path for the construction of China’s computing power system that is independent, secure, and efficient.
▲ Product display at the launch event
Liu Zhixiong, Chairman of SanNuo Group, warmly congratulated the launch event and sent a video message: “The RISC-V architecture, with its significant advantages of open architecture and modular design, is demonstrating great development potential in the server industry. With the continuous improvement of the global open-source ecosystem and breakthroughs in underlying technologies, the RISC-V architecture is expected to reshape the landscape of the high-performance computing industry, promote market competition, drive technological innovation, and lead industry chain transformation. SanNuo looks forward to deepening strategic collaboration with Ruisi Semiconductor to jointly write a new chapter in the chip era! I wish the 2025 Spring Product Launch Conference of Ruisi Semiconductor great success and sketch a new picture for the semiconductor industry!”
Fully Self-Developed Core Processor and On-Chip Network Architecture
RISC-V Enters the High-Performance Era
At the launch event, Dr. Tan Zhangxi, founder, chairman of the board, and CEO of Ruisi Semiconductor, officially released the Lingyu processor and highlighted its key breakthroughs in performance and architecture. Dr. Tan pointed out that the Lingyu processor has achieved significant improvements in single-core performance and multi-core parallel performance, providing a notable advantage over existing mainstream server processors.
The Lingyu processor is based on Ruisi Semiconductor’s fully self-developed CPU core IP and on-chip network IP, implementing advanced out-of-order execution, high-speed data pathways, and a Mesh interconnect structure. Additionally, through a design-process collaborative optimization that combines hardware and software, innovations have been achieved in product engineering, EDA toolchains, physical design, and wafer manufacturing processes, significantly enhancing the energy efficiency ratio during computation and optimizing the total cost of ownership (TCO).
The computing performance of the Lingyu processor is now on par with international mainstream server chips from Intel and AMD, pushing RISC-V into the high-performance era. The Lingyu processor adopts a “one core, dual core” design architecture, consisting of 32 high-performance general-purpose computing cores (CPU) and 8 dedicated intelligent computing cores (LPU), optimized specifically for inference tasks of open-source large language models like Deepseek.
In terms of memory and I/O interface support, the Lingyu processor supports DDR5 high-speed memory, complies with PCIe 5.0 standards, and CXL 2.0 protocol, supporting up to 8-way interconnect. This enables it to meet various new computing demands in the era of large models, such as NVMe all-flash storage servers with more than 20 disks, 8-card GPU direct connections, up to 320-core high-density computing power, and 6 high-performance network cards with 400Gbps.
Moreover, the Lingyu processor features enterprise-level RAS characteristics, meeting RISC-V server standards, with a built-in dedicated management core that supports dynamic adjustment, ensuring stability under high-load operations to meet enterprise-level data center needs.
As of now, Ruisi Semiconductor has laid out 37 invention patents, 19 software copyrights, and 6 integrated circuit layout designs around the Lingyu processor, establishing a solid intellectual property moat.
Gathering Leading Strategic Partners
The RISC-V High-Performance Ecosystem Takes Shape
At the launch event, SanNuo Information Technology simultaneously released the first generation of Ruisi high-performance server products under the brand Zhibainuo, sharing insights on the development of the RISC-V industry with the theme “Embracing Open Source, Intelligent Computing Future”. They introduced practical experiences in developing RISC-V server products and addressed current industry concerns regarding the open-source RISC-V system, autonomous control, and high-performance computing architecture, further demonstrating that the RISC-V server product ecosystem is transitioning from research and development to implementation, forming a sustainable industrial synergy.
▲ SanNuo products from strategic partner Ruisi Semiconductor
Currently, the Lingyu processor ecosystem has gathered over 50 partners, covering key component manufacturers, complete machine OEMs, system software, and industry solutions.
Accelerating Domestic Innovation
Supporting Core Markets such as Open-Source Large Language Model Inference
Against the backdrop of continuously growing computing power demand, the Lingyu processor, as a domestic high-performance representative of the RISC-V architecture, is ushering in a broad market space. Market research data indicates that the global intelligent computing market is expected to reach $39 billion in 2024 and grow to $89 billion by 2029, with a CAGR of 17.8%; the Chinese intelligent computing market is expected to exceed 150 billion yuan by 2028, with an average annual growth rate of 21%. The global high-performance computing (HPC) market is also expected to exceed $40 billion and is projected to double by 2032.
With the openness and customizability of the RISC-V architecture, the Lingyu processor not only competes with traditional X86 and Arm architectures but also provides a more cost-effective option for the server market. It is expected to become an important driving force for a new round of domestic innovation with its high energy efficiency, high flexibility, and a fully domestic computing solution that is well-adapted to the ecosystem.
At the launch event, SenseTime, as one of the first cooperative clients, stated: “As a global leading artificial intelligence platform company, SenseTime will take the launch of the Lingyu processor as an opportunity to collaborate with Ruisi Semiconductor, leveraging each other’s core advantages to explore diversified cooperation models, and jointly promote innovation and value enhancement in the intelligent computing industry.”
Ruisi Semiconductor is a national high-tech enterprise and a national-level specialized and innovative small giant, while SanNuo is among the top 500 manufacturing enterprises in China and a national innovative pilot enterprise. The two companies will join forces to continuously expand their product matrix and accelerate the large-scale deployment of RISC-V server chips, building a secure and efficient autonomous computing foundation for the domestic computing ecosystem.
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