Zhang Jianzhong, founder and CEO of Moore Threads, pictured in November 2023. Photo: Handout

    Moore Threads unveils new AI chips to challenge Nvidia

    Chinese chip designer Moore Threads Technology has unveiled a suite of new products, including its next generation of chip architecture and artificial intelligence chips as it looks to challenge US chip-making heavyweights Nvidia and AMD. The Beijing-based firm, hailed as China’s “little Nvidia”, introduced two forthcoming chips Huashan and Lushan, named after two famous Chinese…

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    Moore Threads saw its shares soar 425 per cent on their Shanghai debut on December 5. Photo: DigiTimes

      Tech pivot: Chinese AI, chip start-ups court global investors with Hong Kong listing plans

      More Chinese artificial intelligence firms and chipmakers are turning to Hong Kong for fundraising, testing the appetite of global investors following stellar onshore debuts of graphics processing unit (GPU) developers Moore Threads Technology and MetaX Integrated Circuits. GigaDevice Semiconductor is a step closer to its Hong Kong initial public offering (IPO) after passing a listing…

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      The US government is said to be considering allowing Nvidia to sell its H200 AI chips to China. Photo: Shutterstock Images

        China’s Nvidia challengers set for bumper IPOs amid tech self-sufficiency drive

        China’s Nvidia challengers Moore Threads and MetaX are set for their hotly anticipated market debuts, driven by investor excitement over domestic demand for home-grown graphics processing units (GPUs) amid Beijing’s tech self-sufficiency drive. Moore Threads opened a subscription lottery last week at 114.28 yuan per share, the highest pricing among A-share listings this year, and…

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        Tech war: DeepSeek’s V3.1 model emerges as ‘key pillar’ for China’s chip self-sufficiency

        Tech war: DeepSeek’s V3.1 model emerges as ‘key pillar’ for China’s chip self-sufficiency

        The Hangzhou-based start-up’s updated model, which supports an innovative data format called UE8M0 FP8, was “ushering in a booming domestic computing power chain”, Huatai Securities analysts said in a research note on Tuesday. That architecture showed that the synergy between mainland-designed software and chips would realise significant results, according to the report. FP8, known as…

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        Tech war: which Chinese firm is supplying next-generation AI chips to DeepSeek?

        Tech war: which Chinese firm is supplying next-generation AI chips to DeepSeek?

        The Hangzhou-based start-up’s cryptic one-line post on WeChat triggered online discussions about which AI chip supplier, or suppliers, would unveil this breakthrough, even as US tech restrictions remain in place. DeepSeek’s post on Thursday said the “UE8M0 FP8 scale” of its V3.1 AI model was particularly designed “for home-grown chips to be released soon”. Apart…

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        Tech war: DeepSeek hints China close to unveiling home-grown ‘next generation’ AI chips

        Tech war: DeepSeek hints China close to unveiling home-grown ‘next generation’ AI chips

        Chinese artificial intelligence start-up DeepSeek said that China will soon have home-grown “next generation” chips for AI stacking, fanning speculation over breakthroughs China may have achieved. In a one-line note on its official WeChat account explaining the “UE8M0 FP8 scale” of its newly released model V3.1, the Hangzhou-based firm said that the model was particularly…

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