Alibaba, Lenovo, Tuling Century and iFlytek are in line to exit the artificial intelligence chip producer, which was valued at $2.5bn as of 2018.

Cambricon Technologies, a China-based artificial intelligence processor developer backed by corporates Alibaba, Lenovo, Zhongke Tuling Century Beijing Technology and iFlytek, has filed to float on Shanghai Stock Exchange’s Star Market.

Founded in 2016, Cambricon designs, develops and produces processor chips for use in smart cloud servers, computer terminals and robotics systems. It was spun out of Chinese Academy of Sciences’ Institute of Computing Technology.

The company initially raised an eight-figure renminbi amount (RMB10m = $1.5m) in a 2016 pre-series A…

Robert Lavine

Robert Lavine is special features editor for Global Venturing.