China Launches The Inevitable Indigenous GPU nextplatform.com/2022/08/25/chi…
This is a pretty fast ramp for a GPU to come to market, obviously. Wen put together a chip design team with GPU experts from all over the world, and raised around $800 million through the beginning of this year to fund the research, development, and manufacturing of the chips..
... the latter of which is done not at SMIC, but across the South China Sea in Taiwan – specifically at Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co, the world’s most important foundry, and specifically using its mature 7 nanometer processes.
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Biren was co-founded with Lingjie Xu, who was a senior GPU architect at Nvidia from 2008 through 2010, then a GPU architect at AMD for two years after that before taking a job as manager of GPU architecture at Samsung for five years after that.
Xu then became a director at Alibaba Cloud, cloud division of Chinese hyperscaler that is one of Magnificent Seven top IT buyers in the world. (It’s a fair guess who is in the front of the line to buy Biren’s GPUs. . . .) Xu is head of products at Biren, and Wen is CEO.
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