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":101575,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[345,343,344,337,114,1657,184,3448,85,46,231,43,545,5959,2224,125,208,2711],"class_list":["post-101574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-asia","tag-business","tag-china","tag-economy","tag-hong-kong","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-lifestyle","tag-news","tag-opinion","tag-south-china-morning-post","tag-sport","tag-technology","tag-us","tag-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101574","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101574"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101574\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/101575"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}