A new Chinese company throws itself into the GPU market

A Chinese company called Moore Threads recently announced that it has become the first nationwide company to introduce a “complete” home GPU solution. The company has reportedly hired various engineers who previously worked at NVIDIA and other major companies such as Microsoft, Intel and ARM. “Moore Threads” is not just the name of the company, but a real target, as on its website it promises to “double the number of concurrent threads every two years“. If this sounds familiar to you, it is because it is inspired by Moore's Law, which requires the number of transistors in an integrated circuit to double every two years, and which is named after Gordon Moore, co-founder of Intel.

The company says its GPU solutions are based on fully national intellectual property and expertise and is capable of supporting a variety of workloads, including 3D graphics processing, AI training and inference computing, high-performance parallel computing, and acceleration for UHD video codec. The company aims to seamlessly integrate its GPUs with partner companies' infrastructure projects, including CPUs and platforms developed in China - a process that the company has already started. Moore Threads says they have already amassed a wealth of knowledge for each stage of GPU manufacturing and that this is the enabling element to be able to design, manufacture, market and service its GPUs, spanning the entire lifecycle. of the product.

Photo Credit: Moore Threads Interestingly, Moore Threads was founded as recently as October 2020. The company has enjoyed extensive funding for its efforts - the startup has already passed three funding rounds in just one year, with major investors such as Sequoia Capital China, ByteDance (TikTok) and Tencent. The latest round of funding brought the company approximately $ 313 million, with the aim of allowing Moore Threads to start mass production and production of its first GPU chip, as well as continue research for its GPU SoCs. .

If Moore Threads' claims prove to be true, it is certainly an important step forward for China to become technologically independent of Western countries when it comes to silicon-related technologies.