Company Trend(June 23)
Kuaishou Chip Unit Lingchuan Technology Achieves Commercial Breakthrough in In-House AI Compute Chips
Kuaishou has spun off its internal chip division into an independent entity, Lingchuan Technology, which has completed a Series A+ funding round raising several hundred million RMB, marking a full transition of its self-developed chip business toward independent market-oriented operations. Lingchuan Technology was formally established as an independent company in March 2024, jointly controlled by Kuaishou and a Beijing AI fund, focusing on the development of dedicated compute chips for video processing and multimodal large models. Its flagship mature product SL200 has shipped nearly 100,000 units, covering 99.7% of Kuaishou’s live-streaming transcoding workloads and supporting video traffic for approximately 700 million platform users. The chip is also supplied to external customers including Alibaba Cloud, Baidu Cloud, and Bilibili. The SL200 has reportedly won international video encoding competitions for three consecutive years, delivering higher compression efficiency than comparable Nvidia solutions while reducing compute energy consumption by approximately 30%. A next-generation fully domestic 3D-stacked chip completed tape-out in April 2026. The new funding will be used for product iteration, capacity expansion of existing chips, and overseas market development. Leveraging its internet-scale application scenarios, Lingchuan Technology is also deploying hardware solutions including AI acceleration cards and integrated compute appliances, targeting use cases in intelligent computing, security, and automotive applications. The company is emerging as a key domestic supplier in China’s vertical video compute chip segment.
Company Trend(June.16)
TSMC and Amkor Sign Ten-Year Agreement: Arizona Advanced Packaging Partnership Targets AI Capacity Bottlenecks
On June 16, TSMC, the world’s leading foundry, and Amkor Technology, the world’s second-largest outsourced semiconductor assembly and test (OSAT) provider, announced that they had entered into a ten-year strategic partnership agreement.
Company Trend(June.8)
Control battle over Nexperia: Chinese firm files RMB 8bn lawsuit, Dutch “lithography giant” sees revenue halved
In June 2026, China’s Wingtech Technology filed a lawsuit with the Intermediate People’s Court of Dongguan, Guangdong Province, against Nexperia’s Netherlands headquarters and its affiliated entities, seeking RMB 8bn in damages and requesting the restoration of control over Nexperia’s semiconductor manufacturing operations in the Netherlands. Previously, the Dutch government reportedly invoked the 1952 Goods Supply Act to forcibly take over Nexperia, cutting off information systems between its China and Netherlands operations, resulting in a supply chain disruption. Wingtech recorded a loss of RMB 8.748bn in 2025, followed by a further loss of RMB 189mn in Q1 2026. On May 6, 2026, the company was placed under a delisting risk warning (ST status).