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Xifeng Oil Field

The Xifeng Oil Field (西峰油田) is a large onshore oil field in southwest China's Ordos Basin, discovered in 2001 and operated by PetroChina's Changqing Oilfield Branch.

Xifeng Wu

Xifeng Wu is a Chinese cancer epidemiologist and dean of the School of Public Health at Zhejiang University, known for the finding that 15 minutes of daily exercise extends life.

Xiheishan power station

Xiheishan power station (华电新疆西黑山发电厂) is an operating 1,320 MW coal-fired power station in Xiheishan Industrial Park, Qitai, Changji, Xinjiang, China, with two ultra-supercritical units commissioned in 2024 and owned by Xinjiang Waneng Yinggema Power Generation.

Xihong Lin

Xihong Lin (林希虹) is a Harvard biostatistician known for the SKAT rare-variant test for whole-genome sequencing and COVID-19 modeling, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2023.

Xihoumen Bridge

The Xihoumen Bridge (西堠门大桥) is a suspension bridge in Zhejiang, China, opened in 2009 to link Jintang and Cezi islands with a 1,650 m main span, then China's longest.

Xihu Jiqiren (Westlake Robot) (西湖机器人)

Xihu Jiqiren, known in English as Westlake Robot (西湖机器人), is a Chinese robotics startup in Hangzhou founded in 2021 as Westlake University's first AI commercialization project.

Xihu Xinchen

Xihu Xinchen (西湖心辰) is a Chinese AI company founded in 2021 in Hangzhou, incubated by Westlake University, that develops diffusion-based multimodal language models for emotional companionship and mental health.

Xihuingo

Xihuingo (Tepeapulco), archaeological zone in Hidalgo, Mexico, 3 km north of Tepeapulco; Teotihuacan-linked Classic period site (200-650 AD) with the largest concentration of pecked crosses and the Pirámide del Tecolote.

XII Scripta

XII Scripta (Ludus duodecim scriptorum, alea) was a Roman race board game on three rows of twelve markings, played with dice and fifteen pieces; it evolved into tabula and is a relative, though not direct ancestor, of backgammon.

XIII (comics)

XIII is a Franco-Belgian thriller comic series created in 1984 by Jean Van Hamme and William Vance for Dargaud, about an amnesiac tattooed man implicated in a US presidential assassination; over 20 million albums sold, with Sente and Jigounov continuing the series and spin-offs XIII Mystery and XIII Trilogy.

Xijian Technology (晰见科技)

Xijian Technology (晰见科技) is a Shanghai startup founded in May 2025 to commercialize the Tianmou brain-inspired vision chip from Tsinghua University, raising nearly 500 million yuan in its first year.

Xijiang 23-1 Oil Field

Xijiang 23-1 is an operating offshore oil field in the South China Sea, China, in the Pearl River Mouth Basin, operated by CNOOC since 2008.

Xijiang 24-3 Oil Field

Xijiang 24-3 (西江24-3) is an offshore oil field in the Pearl River Mouth Basin, South China Sea, discovered by Phillips Petroleum in 1985 and producing since 1994.

Xijincheng Site

西金城遗址 (Xijincheng site), Bo'ai county, Henan: a Longshan-culture walled settlement of 30.8×10⁴ m² excavated 2006–2008 by Shandong University, with moats, early Central Plains wheat finds, and millet-based isotope evidence.

Xijing Dai

Xijing Dai, known as Jacob Dai, is a technology entrepreneur who co-founded the payments fintech Airwallex in Melbourne in 2015, alongside chief executive Jack Zhang.

Xijue

Xijue (希觉, courtesy name Shunzhi, 864–948) was a Chinese Buddhist Vinaya master and scholar of the late Tang and Wuyue periods, abbot of the Thousand Buddha cloister in Hangzhou and teacher of Zanning.

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.