Shanghai-based artificial intelligence chip start-up MetaX has stepped into the spotlight after winning approval last week from Shanghai\u2019s exchange to list on the city\u2019s Nasdaq-style Star Market, underscoring both China\u2019s accelerating AI investment and its potential to challenge US chip giant Nvidia.<\/p>\n
Known in Chinese as Muxi, MetaX was founded in 2020 by three veterans of US chipmaker Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) \u2013 chairman Chen Weiliang and co-chief technology officers Peng Li and Yang Jian. The company runs research and development centres across Beijing, Nanjing, Chengdu, Hangzhou, Shenzhen, Wuhan and Changsha.<\/p>\n
While MetaX has cleared a key regulatory hurdle by passing the exchange\u2019s hearing, it still requires final approval from the China Securities Regulatory Commission before it can proceed to a listing.<\/p>\n
As a fabless chip designer, MetaX designs microchips but does not manufacture them. The company produces N-series graphics processing units (GPUs) for AI inference, C-series chips for general-purpose computing and G-series processors for graphics rendering.<\/p>\n
It has also built its own computing platform, MXMACA, designed to be compatible with mainstream GPU ecosystems such as Nvidia\u2019s CUDA.<\/p>\n
The firm\u2019s latest flagship general-purpose processor, the MetaX C600, launched in July. It integrates HBM3e high-bandwidth memory and supports FP8 precision, a format that allows faster AI model training with lower power use. Featuring 144GB of memory, the chip is described as \u201cfully domestically produced\u201d, with mass production targeted for year-end.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Shanghai-based artificial intelligence chip start-up MetaX has stepped into the spotlight after winning approval last week from Shanghai\u2019s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":107712,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[220,218,219,576,72,114,113,240,61,60,166,43,387,10178,850,80,90,386],"class_list":{"0":"post-107711","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-artificialintelligence","11":"tag-asia","12":"tag-business","13":"tag-china","14":"tag-economy","15":"tag-hong-kong","16":"tag-ie","17":"tag-ireland","18":"tag-lifestyle","19":"tag-news","20":"tag-opinion","21":"tag-south-china-morning-post","22":"tag-sport","23":"tag-technology","24":"tag-us","25":"tag-world"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107711","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107711"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107711\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/107712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}