In January 2021, Muxi Integrated Circuit (Shanghai) Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as "Muxi"), a high-tech company focusing on the R&D of the high-performance GPU chips, announced that it has completed a pre-A round of financing of several hundred million yuan. This round of financing was led by Sequoia Capital China Fund, followed by Zhenge Fund, as well as the continued increase of old shareholders such as Heli Capital and Tianjin TEDA.
As the legal counsel for Muxi's angel round and the Pre-A round of financing, Llinks continued to provide Muxi with professional legal services with its rich project experience in the financing field.
Muxi was established in September 2020, dedicated to the research and development of domestic high-performance GPU chips with independent intellectual property rights and their application ecology. In the past few months since its establishment, Muxi's core team and domestic high-performance GPU projects have shown strong appeal. While being favored by the capital market, they have quickly attracted senior talents in the chip industry. The entire team has grown rapidly by nearly 10 times. The scale of a hundred people. The research and development of Muxi's first-generation chip has been carried out in a comprehensive and in-depth manner. At the same time, it has reached a strategic cooperation with Zhejiang University and established the "Zhejiang University-Muxi Integrated Circuit Research Center", which will carry out cutting-edge research and development at multiple levels of GPU hardware and software.
Chen Weiliang, the founder of Muxi, said: Since its establishment, Muxi has continued to receive financial support and industrialization from many top investment institutions in the world thanks to the fully-organized start-up team and core backbone technology accumulation and industrialization experience in the high-performance GPU industry. Resource tilt. The young Mu Xi is attracting top talents at a record speed in the industry, expanding the research and development team, and advancing product research and development. Speeding on the fast lane, Mu Xi is determined to take on the historical responsibility of solving the problem of high-performance chip card neck problems in the layout of the national information industry, and to provide strong computing power support for the country's economic development when mankind enters the era of digital economy and computing power economy.
