It is reported that Jiao Guofang, co-founder of Bishi Technology and general manager of graphic GPU product line, has resigned.
CTOnews.com March 27 news, According to observer network learned from a person familiar with the matter, Domestic chip start-up company wall Ren technology co-founder, Graphics GPU product line general manager Jiao Guofang has recently resigned.
Founded in September 2019, Biren Technology mainly develops general purpose GPU (GPGPU) for artificial intelligence training and reasoning. Up to now, the company has completed Series B financing with a total financing amount of more than RMB 5 billion yuan. Founder Zhang Wen is a doctor of law from Harvard University. He has worked in the United Nations and Wall Street for many years and has successively become a senior lawyer and general manager of private equity funds. From 2018 to 2019, Zhang Wen worked for Shangtang Technology and served as president.
Different from Zhang Wen, CEO of Biren Technology, Jiao Guofang has rich background in GPU technology research and development. In September 2021, when Biren Technology started graphics GPU research and development, Jiao Guofang was introduced as follows: With more than 25 years of profound GPU product architecture and R & D experience, he has experienced the rapid development of graphics processor industry in the past 20 years; He worked for Qualcomm for 11 years. As the head of GPU team, he developed 5 generations of classic Qualcomm Adreno mobile GPU architecture. It is worth mentioning that Jiao Guofang also served as the chief scientist of GPU technology in Huawei Futurewei Department, responsible for Huawei Hongmeng OS graphics image processing and UI system framework.
In addition to GPGPU, Biren is also trying to enter the graphics GPU space, which is a market dominated by NVIDIA, but there are also more consumer needs and application scenarios. Jiao Guofang once said that Biren Technology will make use of its own technical strength and understanding of the Chinese market to carry out in-depth optimization for local and emerging application scenarios and give full play to the "latecomer advantage."
However, shortly after Wall Technology announced the launch of a new graphics GPU product line, Jiao Guofang chose to leave. It is not clear why or why he left. The GPGPU and graphics GPU products of Biren Technology have not yet been officially launched and mass produced. A query of the company's website revealed that the press release announcing the launch of the new graphics GPU product line had been deleted.
In terms of R & D progress of Biren Technology products, in October 2021, Biren Technology announced that the first 7nm process general GPU BR100 was officially delivered to start streaming,"performance parameters directly benchmark the current international most advanced similar products"; In March 2022, Biren Technology announced that the first general GPU chip BR100 series was successfully lit at one time."In terms of core performance design standards, BR100 series is a general GPU chip that sets a domestic computing record, directly benchmarking the latest flagship products released recently by international manufacturers"; In August 2022, Biren Technology officially released the first general GPU chip BR100. According to the company, the peak computing power of a single chip of this 7nm product can reach teraflops per second, which is the PFLOPS level. Even compared to NVIDIA's latest 4nm flagship H100, the BR100's paper performance data is not inferior.
As of CTOnews.com, Biren Technology has not yet announced the relevant situation.
