Advanced Micro-Fabrication Equipment Inc. China, known in English as AMEC and in Chinese as 中微公司, is a Shanghai semiconductor equipment maker that builds plasma etch tools, thin-film deposition tools and MOCVD…
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Biren Technology (Chinese: 壁仞科技; pinyin: Birèn Keji) is a Chinese fabless semiconductor company, based in Shanghai and founded in 2019, that designs general-purpose GPUs and AI accelerators for data-center…
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Contemporary Amperex Technology Co., Limited (CATL) is a Chinese battery manufacturer based in Ningde, Fujian province, and the largest maker of batteries for electric vehicles and grid storage in the world.
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ChangXin Memory Technologies, almost always shortened to CXMT, is China's largest maker of dynamic random-access memory and the only Chinese memory company big enough to appear in global DRAM market-share…
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Cambricon Technologies (Chinese: 寒武纪科技; stock ticker: 688256.SS) is a Chinese fabless semiconductor company that designs artificial intelligence processors, best known for its Siyuan (思元) Machine Learning Unit…
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The Cambricon Siyuan 590 and Siyuan 690 (Chinese: 思元590 / 思元690) are data-center artificial intelligence accelerators designed by Cambricon, a partially state-owned Chinese chip company often called "the…
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China's semiconductor industry is the network of wafer fabrication plants, equipment and materials suppliers, chip design houses, packaging and test operations, and state investment vehicles that produce…
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Empyrean Technology (Chinese: 北京华大九天科技股份有限公司, Beijing Huada Jiutian Technology Co., Ltd.; trading as Empyrean) is a Chinese electronic design automation (EDA) software company headquartered in Beijing and…
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Enflame Technology (Chinese: 燧原科技, romanized Suiyuan) is a Chinese fabless chip company, founded in March 2018 and based in Shanghai, that designs general-purpose AI accelerators for data-center training and…
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The Entity List is a US export control list maintained by the Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS), an agency of the Department of Commerce, and published as Supplement No. 4 to Part 744 of the Export…
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Horizon Robotics (Chinese: 地平线; pinyin: Dipingxian) is a Chinese designer of energy-efficient artificial-intelligence computing platforms for smart and automated vehicles, principally for advanced driver…
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Hua Hong is the second-largest chip foundry in mainland China after SMIC, and the largest one whose entire business sits on mature specialty processes rather than leading-edge logic.
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Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. is a Chinese multinational technology company headquartered in Shenzhen that has become the centerpiece of China's effort to build an artificial intelligence industry independent…
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Huawei's AI strategy is to build a fully self-sufficient, vertically integrated AI stack inside China, spanning custom Ascend accelerators, the CANN software layer, the MindSpore framework, the Pangu family of…
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Huawei Ascend is a family of AI accelerators designed by Huawei around a custom processor architecture called Da Vinci.
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The Huawei Ascend 910B is a data-center AI accelerator designed by Huawei's HiSilicon unit that became China's most widely deployed domestic alternative to restricted NVIDIA data-center GPUs across roughly…
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The Huawei Ascend 910C is a data-center artificial intelligence accelerator developed by Huawei and positioned as China's leading domestic alternative to high-end NVIDIA GPUs that are barred from sale to…
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The Huawei CloudMatrix 384 (commonly shortened to CM384) is a rack-scale artificial intelligence computing system that Huawei markets as an "AI supernode." It wires together 384 Huawei Ascend 910C…
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Lei Jun (Chinese: 雷军) is a Chinese entrepreneur and angel investor who founded Xiaomi in April 2010 and serves as its chairman, chief executive officer and executive director.
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MetaX (Chinese: 沐曦; pinyin: Mùxī), formally MetaX Integrated Circuits (Shanghai) Co., Ltd. and sometimes rendered Muxi, is a Chinese fabless semiconductor company based in Shanghai that designs general-purpose…
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Moore Threads (Chinese: 摩尔线程; Moore Threads Technology Co., Ltd.) is a Beijing-based Chinese designer of graphics processing units founded in October 2020 by Zhang Jianzhong, a former vice president and…
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NAURA Technology Group Co., Ltd. (北方华创科技集团股份有限公司, romanised as Beifang Huachuang and rendered in English sources as both "NAURA" and "Naura Technology Group") is China's largest maker of semiconductor…
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The NVIDIA A800 is a datacenter graphics processing unit that Nvidia created for the Chinese market in late 2022 as an export-compliant variant of the A100
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The NVIDIA H20 is a data-center graphics processing unit (GPU) that NVIDIA designed for the Chinese market to comply with United States export controls on advanced artificial-intelligence accelerators.
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The NVIDIA H800 is a data center graphics processing unit (GPU) that Nvidia designed specifically for the Chinese market as a regulatory-compliant variant of its flagship H100 accelerator.
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Shanghai Micro Electronics Equipment (Group) Co., Ltd., known as SMEE, is China's best known photolithography equipment maker and its designated national champion in the field.
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Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation (SMIC) is China's largest contract chipmaker and the most advanced pure-play semiconductor foundry on the mainland
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SiCarrier is a Chinese semiconductor equipment maker headquartered in Shenzhen. Its parent company, Shenzhen SiCarrier Technologies Co.
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Xiaomi AI is the artificial intelligence research, products, and strategy of Xiaomi Corporation, the Beijing-based consumer-electronics and electric-vehicle maker, spanning open-source large language models…
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Xiaomi XRING O100 is a dedicated AI accelerator designed by Xiaomi for local large-model inference on consumer devices.
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Yangtze Memory Technologies Co., Ltd. (YMTC, Chinese name 长江存储) is a Chinese memory chipmaker based in Wuhan that designs and manufactures 3D NAND flash memory.
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