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This week, i Capital features on Shanghai Biren Technology Co., Ltd (Biren), one of the leading fabless semiconductor companies specialising in the development of GPGPUs (general purpose graphic processing units) and GPGPU-based intelligent computing solutions in mainland China. Its product portfolio includes a hardware system and a software platform. The former includes Peripheral Component Interconnect express (PCIe) cards and Open Accelerate Modules (OAMs) containing the Company's self-developed GPGPU chips. Its self-developed software platform BIRENSUPA bridges the hardware systems with AI application scenarios, optimises hardware performance, and manages large-scale GPGPU clusters. BIRENSUPA was made compatible with third-party GPGPU computing software platforms, such as NVIDIA's CUDA, to minimise to the cost of migrating to Biren's products. 

The Company was founded in 2019 by Dr. ZHANG Wen, who worked as the president of SenseTime (0020 HK) before founding Biren. Chief Technology Officer, Mr. HONG Zhuo, worked as the engineering director of S3, Inc and as a principal architect at NVIDIA in the US. Biren was listed on the Stock Exchange of Hong Kong in Dec 2025 at an offering price of HK$19.60/share. As of the end of Jun 2025, the Company has 792 full time employees, of which 657 were in the R&D department.