ai chip company biren technology has started ipo guidance. it has general-purpose gpu and other products and has raised over 5 billion yuan
2024-09-13
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another domestic ai (artificial intelligence) chip "unicorn" company plans to be listed on the a-share market.
biren technology
on september 11, the official website of the china securities regulatory commission announced the initial public offering and listing guidance filing report of shanghai biren technology co., ltd. (hereinafter referred to as "biren technology"). the report shows that biren technology has registered for guidance filing with the shanghai securities regulatory bureau, and the guidance broker is guotai junan. according to the filing report, biren technology and guotai junan signed the guidance agreement on september 10.
the filing report shows that biren technology was established on september 9, 2019 with a registered capital of 32.9164 million yuan. in terms of equity structure, shanghai biren enterprise management consulting partnership (limited partnership) holds 12.65% of the shares, zhang wen, the founder and chairman of biren technology, holds 12.48% of the shares, qm120 limited holds 5.58% of the shares, liang xiaoyao, a professor of the department of computer science and engineering at shanghai jiaotong university, holds 5.25% of the shares, and the company has no controlling shareholder.
source: china securities regulatory commission official website
according to the company's official website, biren technology is involved in the fields of gpu, dsa (dedicated accelerator) and computer architecture, and is committed to developing original general-purpose computing systems, establishing efficient software and hardware platforms, and providing integrated solutions in the field of intelligent computing. in august 2022, biren technology released its first general-purpose gpu chip, the br100 series, including two major products: br104 and br100.
in the product technology column on the official website of biren technology, the company's general-purpose gpu computing product "bili" series and the birensupa software development platform are displayed, including the hardware abstraction layer, birensupa programming model and brcc compiler. at the 2024 global ai chip summit (gacs 2024) held in september this year, biren technology announced its self-developed heterogeneous gpu collaborative training solution, which is the first solution in the industry to support 3 or more heterogeneous gpus (biren gpu + nvidia gpu + other domestic chips) to train a large model at the same time.
public information shows that biren technology has completed multiple rounds of financing, with a total public financing amount of more than 5 billion yuan. investors include qiming venture partners, idg capital, walden china, ping an group, hillhouse capital, gree ventures, songhe capital, yunhui capital, guosheng capital, china merchants capital and other institutions. in july 2023, biren technology was rumored to be planning an ipo in hong kong.
it is worth mentioning that after cambrian, known as the "first ai chip stock", went public in july 2020, two consecutive domestic ai chip companies have recently launched a-share listing plans. on august 26 this year, suiyuan technology, a domestic gpu chip "unicorn" company like biren technology, also launched listing guidance and handled guidance filing registration with the shanghai securities regulatory bureau. the guidance institution is cicc.
hu hanyan, reporter of the paper
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