About
Leading Chinese AI chip designer. MLU series chips for AI inference. IPO on STAR Market 2020.
Beijing, Beijing · Founded 2016 · Company website
Why in the Index
Leading domestic AI accelerator designer. MLU chips serve datacenter and edge inference — including robotics, AV, and embodied AI applications. On the US Commerce Entity List (Dec 2022); US-investable.
PAI exposure of 50% reflects the share of trailing-twelve-month revenue attributed to Physical AI activities. See methodology §4 for inclusion criteria and §6 for how PAI exposure scales the weight.
Recent activity
Jun 17, 2026
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ByteDance increases procurement of domestic chips, internet giants race to build AI compute moats
ByteDance reportedly plans to purchase at least 50,000 AI chips from Tianshu Zhixin for inference workloads, adding a third GPU supplier after Huawei and Cambricon (Chinese: 寒武纪).
36Kr (36氪)