In terms of domestic high-end GPU chips, the start-up Biren Technology recently announced an important news-the first general-purpose GPU, BR100, has been officially delivered and taped out recently, and is expected to be released to the market next year.
According to analysis by industry insiders, the performance parameters of the first universal GPU of Biren Technology—BR100, are directly aligned with the current international leading similar products, and it is also the first universal GPU that is truly internationally competitive in China. Improve the self-sufficiency rate of China’s high-end chips and help realize the dream of “China Chip” that is independent, safe and controllable.
The BR100, the universal GPU delivered by Biren Technology this time, has the three advantages of high computing power, high versatility, and high energy efficiency. It adopts advanced 7-nanometer process technology and completely relies on Biren Technology’s independent original chip architecture. Many of the latest chip design, manufacturing and packaging technologies in the industry have been developed.
The series of general-purpose computing products equipped with the BR100 chip of Biren Technology mainly focus on many computing application scenarios such as artificial intelligence training and reasoning, general computing, etc., will make up for the huge computing power gap brought by the rapid development of artificial intelligence applications, and can be widely used in applications including Smart city, public cloud, big data analysis, autonomous driving, medical and health, life science, cloud gaming and other fields.
According to official website information, Biren Technology was founded in 2019, dedicated to the research and development of original general-purpose computing systems, establishing efficient software and hardware platforms, and providing integrated solutions in the field of intelligent computing.
From the development path, Biren Technology will first focus on general-purpose intelligent computing in the cloud, and gradually catch up with existing solutions in artificial intelligence training and inference, graphics rendering and other fields, and achieve breakthroughs in domestic high-end general-purpose intelligent computing chips.
As of March 2021, Biren Technology has completed Series B financing, with a total financing amount of more than 4.7 billion yuan. It has repeatedly refreshed the record of financing speed and financing scale in the semiconductor field, and has become the “unicorn” company with the most rapid growth momentum.