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Xikun style
Xikun style (西崑體, xikun ti) was a school of poetry that arose at the Northern Song court in the early 11th century, taking the late Tang poet Li Shangyin as its model.
Xile Hu
Xile Hu (胡喜乐, born 1978 in Putian, China) is a chemist and full professor at EPFL in Switzerland, known for earth-abundant metal catalysts and co-founding NovaMea in 2023.
Xiliji
Xiliji (昔里吉) was a Mongol imperial prince of the Yuan dynasty, the fourth son of Möngke Khan, who held the title Prince of Heping and led a rebellion against Kublai Khan in 1276.
Xilin Gol Biosphere Reserve
Xilin Gol Biosphere Reserve (锡林郭勒), a UNESCO MAB reserve in Inner Mongolia, China, designated 1987; 1,078,600 ha of temperate steppe, China's only grassland biosphere reserve and first grassland nature reserve.
Xilin Hot
Xilin Hot (锡林浩特市, Xilinhot), county-level city and seat of Xilingol League in central Inner Mongolia; about 14,780 km² of typical steppe, 351,500 residents, coal-and-power economy with growing winter tourism.
Xiling Seal Art Society
The Xiling Seal Art Society (西泠印社) is a Chinese scholarly society for seal engraving and epigraphy, founded in 1904 at West Lake in Hangzhou and known as "the foremost society under heaven."
Xiling Shen
Xiling Shen is an American cancer researcher, trained as a Stanford electrical engineer, who is Professor of Gastrointestinal Medical Oncology at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center.
Xilinx
Xilinx, Inc was an American semiconductor company founded in 1984 in California that invented the FPGA and led its market until AMD acquired it in 2022.
Xilinx Alveo
Xilinx Alveo is a family of PCIe data center accelerator cards built around FPGAs, launched by Xilinx in 2018 and sold by AMD since its 2022 acquisition of Xilinx.
Xilinx Artix
Xilinx Artix is a family of cost- and power-optimized field-programmable gate arrays sold by Xilinx, now part of AMD, announced in June 2010 as part of the 7 series.
Xilinx Kintex
Xilinx Kintex is a family of mid-range FPGAs from Xilinx, now sold by AMD, positioned between the low-cost Artix and high-end Virtex lines since its 2010 debut.
Xilinx Spartan
Xilinx Spartan is a family of low-cost field-programmable gate arrays introduced by Xilinx in 1998 for high-volume, price-sensitive applications and continued by AMD after its 2022 acquisition.
Xilinx Versal
Xilinx Versal is a family of adaptive SoCs introduced in 2018 as the first adaptive compute acceleration platform, combining programmable logic, Arm processors, and AI Engines.
Xilinx Virtex
Virtex is a family of high-performance field-programmable gate arrays introduced by Xilinx in November 1998 and continued under AMD as the Virtex UltraScale and UltraScale+ lines.
Xilinx Zynq
Xilinx Zynq is a family of system-on-chip devices, originally from Xilinx and now sold by AMD, that combines Arm Cortex-A9 processors with 28 nm FPGA fabric on a single die.
Xilio Therapeutics
Xilio Therapeutics, formerly Akrevia Therapeutics, is a clinical-stage biotechnology company in Waltham, Massachusetts, traded on Nasdaq as XLO, that develops masked, tumor-activated immuno-oncology therapies including vilastobart.
Xilis
Xilis was a Durham, North Carolina biotech startup founded in 2019 to develop patient-derived 3D tumor models for precision oncology; it closed, with its MOS technology moving to Uniform Bio.
Xilonen Corona
Xilonen Corona is a 300-km-diameter corona on Venus at 51°N, 321°E, IAU-approved in 1991 and named for the Aztec maize goddess; one catalog lists it as 250 × 200 km.
Xilongchi hydroelectric plant
The Xilongchi hydroelectric plant, formally the Xilongchi Pumped Storage Power Station (西龙池抽水蓄能电站), is a 1,200 MW pumped storage station in Wutai County, Shanxi, first in the province and fully in service in 2009.
Xilotepec
Xilotepec, also spelled Jilotepec, was a pre-Hispanic Otomi altepetl in what is now the state of Mexico, near modern Jilotepec de Abasolo northwest of Mexico City.
Xiluodu hydroelectric plant
Xiluodu hydroelectric plant (溪洛渡水电站) is a large hydropower station on the Jinsha River, upper Yangtze, on the Sichuan–Yunnan border, ranked third in the world after Three Gorges and Itaipu.
Ximelagatran
Ximelagatran (Exanta, Exarta) was AstraZeneca's oral prodrug of melagatran, the first oral direct thrombin inhibitor; noninferior to warfarin but withdrawn worldwide in February 2006 for hepatotoxicity.
Ximen Bao governs Ye
Ximen Bao governs Ye (西门豹治邺) is the tenure of Ximen Bao as magistrate of Ye under Wei, recorded in Shiji chapter 126, known for ending the river-god bride custom and building twelve irrigation canals.
Ximena Duque
Ximena Duque, Colombian actress and entrepreneur born 1985 in Cali, known for Telemundo telenovelas Corazón valiente and La Fan; left acting in 2019 for network marketing with Monat and Farmasi, returning to Farmasi in October 2026 with husband Jay Adkins.
Ximena Navarrete
Ximena Navarrete (Jimena Navarrete Rosete), Mexican model and actress born 1988 in Guadalajara, won Miss Universe 2010 in Las Vegas as Mexico's second titleholder after Lupita Jones; later actress in La Tempestad and pageant judge.
Ximena Sariñana
Ximena Sariñana Rivera (born 1985, Guadalajara) is a Mexican singer-songwriter and actress; her 2008 debut Mediocre earned a Grammy nomination, and she has six Latin Grammy nominations, five-plus albums, and acting roles including Luz Clarita.
Ximin He
Ximin He is a materials scientist and associate professor at UCLA who builds self-regulating hydrogels, sunflower-like solar trackers, and tough freeze-cast hydrogels, recognized with a 2023 Moore Inventor Fellowship.
Xin Gao
Xin Gao is a computer scientist and Professor at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology in Saudi Arabia, known for machine learning methods in protein structure and biomedical imaging.
Xin Li (biologist)
Xin Li is a plant biologist and professor at the University of British Columbia's Michael Smith Laboratories, known for discovering SNI1 and 2025 findings on fungal chromosomes.
Xin Li (engineer)
Xin Li is a materials scientist known for dendrite-stopping solid-state battery designs, formerly a Harvard professor and now Distinguished Professor at the Chinese Academy of Sciences.