The two companies have many similarities. Both were founded during the "Eleventh Five-Year Plan" period, and both received first-phase investment from the National Fund. Their founding team members all graduated from universities in Changsha, Hunan. However, none of them have overseas study experience, and none of them had core technologies and patents to support them before the company was established. They are obviously different from the start-up teams of many current AI chip start-up companies. The development of these two companies is more like a crossover and a long march.
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1. Zeng Wanhui, the founder of Jingjiawei, graduated from the National University of Defense Technology in microwave and millimeter wave technology. He was a cadre within the system before deciding to start a business. In an interview with the media, he admitted that he was not used to ordinary life, so he finally decided to resign to start an innovative high-tech company with his alumnus Hu Yahua and his senior brother Rao Xianhong.
2. When Jingjiawei was founded, Zeng Wanhui and the other two founders, in search of business, accepted the task of developing a certain chip graphics card driver software from a research institute of AVIC. Since there was no valuable information available, For reference, powerful domestic R&D units failed to complete the project even after three years. It was even more difficult for Jing Jiawei, who was still young at the time. However, several founders and technical backbones were not afraid of difficulties. They explored the lowest level of technology and led the team to work for more than 16 hours a day. Finally, they successfully completed the task and opened up the company.
3. In the process of developing a graphics processor chip with completely independent intellectual property rights, Zeng Wanhui and his team concentrated more than 50 technical backbones of the company, spent 8 years, and invested several million yuan in the country. Under such circumstances, we raised more than 30 million yuan of funds by ourselves, and finally succeeded in 2014, developing the first domestically produced high-reliability, low-power GPU chip - JM5400. It has completely independent intellectual property rights and has been awarded in many national key projects. successfully applied. In the subsequent development, Jingjiawei launched a new generation of self-developed high-performance, high-reliability GPU chip JM7200 in 2018 and successfully taped it out. This chip can provide display capabilities for various information systems. In 2019, Jingjiawei launched the commercial version of GPU for the first time, fully supporting domestic CPUs and domestic operating systems.