Eastern Computing

Kunlun Chip is a Baidu subsidiary developing general-purpose cloud AI chips based on XPU/GPU architecture for deep learning and machine learning workloads at cloud and edge scale. Planned products include the M100 for large-scale inference in 2026 and the M300 for hyperscale multimodal training in 2027.

Lightelligence (曦智科技), founded in 2018 in Shanghai, China, is a provider of photonic computing processors and hybrid electro-optical computing solutions. The company focuses on two product lines—photonic networking and photonic computing—with offerings including the LightSphere X distributed optical interconnect and optical switching GPU supernode, and the hybrid electro-optical computing card Tianshu.

Domestic GPU chip design, specializing in general compute, large-scale AI compute, and high-performance graphics rendering

Quantum-computing x AI system-level software and application solutions, spanning low-level software stacks across diverse hardware, quantum-algorithm applications, and AI-driven R&D tools.

Cerebras Systems, founded in 2021 in California, USA, develops AI chips. Notable investors include Sam Altman, Ilya Sutskever, Andy Bechtolsheim, Greg Brockman, Lip-Bu Tan, and other tech luminaries.

Etched develops AI inference ASICs optimized for Transformer models (codenamed Sohu), positioning as an alternative to Nvidia GPUs.