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Shanghai QuantSyn Tech was founded in October 2025 in Pudong, Shanghai, as a chip-platform company focused on "probabilistic computing plus quantum security". Its core products span a PPU (Probabilistic Processing Unit) built on spin-based probabilistic bits (P-bits), a QRNG (quantum random number generator) chip, and a PQC (post-quantum cryptography) chip with a compute-in-memory security architecture, targeting probabilistic AI compute and quantum-attack-resistant security infrastructure for the large-model era.

Shanghai-based Dongfang Suanxin (founded May 2024, HQ in Zhangjiang, 500+ staff across seven cities) develops large-compute AI chips built on its proprietary software-defined chip and 3D near-memory computing technologies and a fully domestic supply chain, with products spanning chips, system and application software, servers and compute clusters. It launched its flagship DF1000 chip in July 2026.

Speedata, founded in 2019 in Tel Aviv, Israel, builds single-chip analytic processing units (APUs) to replace general-purpose server racks and accelerate big data and AI workloads, delivering significantly better performance than rack-mounted servers.

Ubitium, founded in 2023 in Düsseldorf, Germany, develops a universal RISC-V microprocessor capable of handling various computing tasks including AI without the need for dedicated chips.

Mineng is a Beijing-based neuromorphic-chip company building upstream compute infrastructure for medical devices. It develops a proprietary digital-analog mixed spiking neural network (SNN) brain-inspired core with an event-driven architecture, positioned as a next-generation native computing architecture for time-series physiological signals that optimizes power, latency and safety. It offers a closed-loop physiological-sensing / event-computing / safety-control hardware-software platform and a five-tier delivery stack (chip, module, dev kit, co-debugging, registration support), supplying standardized, clinically compliant capability packages to home-consumer-medical, rehabilitation and neuro-medical device makers rather than building end devices.

Founded in January 2024 and based in Shanghai, Guangqiu Technology develops silicon-photonic AI processors for edge computing using an all-optical reservoir-computing architecture built on the nonlinear dynamics of semiconductor lasers. Co-founded by ShanghaiTech professor Wang Cheng and Li Ruiqian, its chips target sub-100-nanosecond system-level inference latency, 10GHz-class operating frequency and real-time adaptive training. Its silicon photonic chip has completed a first tape-out validation.