The hardware and infrastructure behind the next generation of AI.
Chinese GPU maker Moore Threads announced it has completed Day-0 adaptation of its MTT S5000 AI computing card and MUSA software stack for StepFun's newly open-sourced Step 5 Preview model. The adaptation covers mixed attention, mixed precision inference and speculative decoding, demonstrating growing domestic hardware readiness for frontier Chinese large language models.
IDC figures cited by Reuters and TechNode put Nvidia ahead of Huawei in China’s data-center AI accelerator market in the first half of 2026, with a six-point gap.
The Beijing chip startup has completed Pre-A2 and Series A financing, according to TechNode, with proceeds intended to support development and production.
The Chinese memory developer says MountTai 2026 has reached tape-out. Validation remains in progress, according to an announcement carried by QbitAI.
ESWIN Computing, a Beijing fabless semiconductor company founded by BOE creator Wang Dongsheng, is preparing a Hong Kong listing under stock code 1256 with trading expected to begin October 9. The company offers 1.57 billion H shares priced between HK$1.48 and HK$1.59 each. Despite its RISC-V computing ambitions targeting AI, automotive and robotics markets, more than four-fifths of ESWIN's 2025 revenue came from display-related chips, making the IPO a test of whether screen-industry expertise can fund a broader computing platform.
DeepSeek has open-sourced infrastructure components optimized for Huawei's Ascend 950 AI chip platform, including a compiler toolchain, high-performance operator libraries and a distributed communication library. Benchmark results for DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash on an Ascend SuperPoD cluster show per-card output throughput of 2,469 tokens per second at 5ms time-per-output-token in offline inference mode.
