In less than five years, Moore Threads has developed five fully functional GPU chips, launched the first domestically produced gaming graphics card, and created the “KUAER (KUAE) 10,000 Card Intelligent Computing Cluster”. Gradually transitioning from “following” to “catching up”, Moore Threads has made significant achievements since 2020 as a leading domestic GPU chip enterprise, achieving a leap from “0 to 1” in various application fields such as medical, meteorological forecasting, AIGC (Artificial Intelligence Generated Content), and large model training.In the future, Moore Threads aims to become a globally competitive GPU leader, creating an advanced accelerated computing platform for the intelligent world that integrates artificial intelligence and digital twins, accelerating the creation of a better world.(Full text 3615 words, reading time approximately 30 minutes)Reporter｜ Lin Lishuang Editor｜ Song Xia Intern｜ Chen Bingying

Five Years of Rapid Development for GPU Chip Enterprises

On March 25, the large-scale themed interview event “Private Enterprises Showcase Their Strength, Advancing at the Right Time” visited the Beijing GPU chip company Moore Threads.

Moore Threads focuses on developing fully functional GPU products, providing suitable computing power solutions for key sectors such as energy, transportation, and electricity transformation. After four to five years of development, Moore Threads has established a market layout for both commercial and civilian use, maintaining a pace of iterating one fully functional GPU chip each year, and has built a full-stack AI intelligent computing product line from chips, boards, clusters to software.

On one wall of the company’s second-floor exhibition hall, there are six large characters: “Success Comes from Passion”, which may be the core driving force behind Moore Threads’ rapid development over the past five years.Moore Threads has officially released three generations of fully functional GPU chips, named Sudi, Chunxiao, and Quyuan, which were launched in March 2022, November 2022, and September 2023, respectively. The third-generation GPU “Quyuan” has improved performance by 3 to 5 times compared to the previous generation “Chunxiao”.In the Moore Threads exhibition hall, a technical staff member introduced: “This civilian product – the MTT S80 high-definition gaming graphics card, is the first domestically produced GPU gaming graphics card that ordinary Chinese citizens can purchase in the retail market. It has been on the market for two and a half years and currently supports advanced DirectX 12. Players can use this graphics card to play various AAA games such as ‘Black Myth: Wukong’ and ‘Genshin Impact’.”According to Banliang Finance, this domestic fully functional GPU enterprise’s products are equipped with four major computing engines and have been applied in various intelligent scenarios. Since 2020, Moore Threads has achieved breakthroughs from “0 to 1” in domestic applications such as assisting medical diagnosis, meteorological forecasting, AIGC, and self-developed large language models. As smooth graphic rendering appears on the screen, and domestic large models run on domestic computing clusters, Moore Threads is writing the historical trajectory of domestic GPUs transitioning from following to catching up with its actual research and development achievements.Achieving Breakthroughs from 0 to 1 in Domestic ProductionMedical imaging technology plays a crucial role in the medical field, presenting the internal structure and pathological conditions of the human body in an intuitive and accurate manner, providing key evidence for doctors’ diagnosis and treatment. Tuisang Medical is a high-tech enterprise based in Beijing, focusing on the AI (artificial intelligence) medical field. The company is committed to providing innovative solutions for the medical industry through advanced artificial intelligence technology.Leveraging the powerful advantages of fully functional GPUs, Moore Threads, in collaboration with its partner Tuisang Medical, successfully completed the domestic adaptation and migration of coronary CT angiography image vascular stenosis auxiliary assessment software, breaking through multiple technical bottlenecks in AI algorithm development environments, software operating environments, and basic computing power matching, enhancing the domestic industry’s autonomous controllability in the AI medical field, and achieving a leap from 0 to 1 in the adaptation of domestic AI products to domestic chips.In recent years, AI large models in meteorology have developed rapidly. In the meteorological field, the application of artificial intelligence technology has made significant progress. These AI meteorological large models have achieved great improvements in forecasting accuracy and shortening forecasting time, promoting the development and application of meteorological forecasting technology.

Thanks to the CUDA (Compute Unified Device Architecture) compatibility advantage of Moore Threads, the meteorological forecasting large model completed the CUDA migration in 24 hours, running for the first time on domestic GPUs, and a fully domestic meteorological forecasting platform can be realized in the future. Additionally, leveraging Moore Threads’ fully functional GPUs, meteorological models can be combined with digital twins to achieve applications such as disaster prediction and disaster prevention rehearsals based on digital twin scenarios.

Furthermore, in supporting agricultural production, Moore Threads has collaborated with Escher Technology in Yunnan to create a digital demonstration planting base, constructing a digital twin model for the agricultural base, fully realizing standardized intelligent management, and ensuring the entire process of product processing. Through digital planting, variety traceability is achieved, ensuring high-quality and high-value varieties, scientifically guiding rotation capabilities, and promoting a new development trend of digitalization, standardization, and scaling in rural areas.

Major Upgrades to Solutions

On July 3, 2024, Moore Threads announced a major upgrade to its AI flagship product “KUAER (KUAE) Intelligent Computing Cluster” solution, expanding significantly from a thousand-card level to a ten-thousand-card scale.

Moore Threads founder and CEO Zhang Jianzhong stated at the launch of the ten-thousand-card cluster that it refers to a high-performance computing system composed of ten thousand or more computing acceleration cards (such as GPUs) used for training foundational large models. “The ten-thousand-card cluster is like a team of ten thousand people, and the team needs a very strong communication mechanism to collaborate effectively on a task.” The difficulty of scaling from a thousand-card to a ten-thousand-card cluster increases exponentially—both expanding the intelligent computing center and ensuring efficiency must be balanced.

To meet the core demands of the large model era for computing power that is “large enough in scale + general computing + ecosystem compatibility”, Moore Threads integrates ultra-large-scale GPU ten-thousand-card clusters, extreme computing efficiency optimization, and highly stable operating environments. In large model training, Moore Threads’ ten-thousand-card cluster natively supports multiple precisions, including FP8 computation, and currently supports training and fine-tuning of several mainstream large models, including GPT and DeepSeek.

On November 6, 2024, the 2024 China Haidian High-Value Patent Cultivation Competition, organized by the Haidian District Intellectual Property Bureau of Beijing, awarded Moore Threads’ “KUAER (KUAE) Intelligent Computing Cluster” the first prize.

“We hope that the Moore Threads KUAER Intelligent Computing Cluster can truly achieve ten-thousand cards with one core, and unite the masses with one core, creating a better world,” said Zhang Jianzhong.

In the chip industry, patents are a reflection of technological innovation and an important indicator of a company’s competitiveness. According to data from the National Intellectual Property Administration, as of February 2025, Moore Threads has obtained 470 authorized patents, ranking first among domestic GPU companies in terms of the number of authorized patents. These patents mainly cover key technology areas such as processor architecture design, AI applications, driver software design, and GPU computing clusters, fully demonstrating Moore Threads’ deep accumulation and forward-looking layout in technological innovation.The Heroic Team Behind the ScenesMoore Threads founder and CEO Zhang Jianzhong, who was once the head of a well-known international chip company in China, is a senior manager with 25 years of experience, having pioneered the company’s market in China and accumulated rich management and market experience. With the arrival of 2020, the entrepreneurial enthusiasm in the domestic chip industry spread rapidly, urgently needing to build self-developed artificial intelligence infrastructure. He gave up a comfortable life in a foreign company and embarked on the entrepreneurial path of Moore Threads.Generally speaking, overseas GPU chip manufacturers produce globally standardized products and rarely customize them for the Chinese market. For example, many enterprises’ personalized needs, such as smart cities, may not be prioritized by overseas manufacturers, even though these needs exist and represent a significant potential market. The founding team of Moore Threads recognized that there were no domestically produced fully functional GPUs. They believed that a fully functional GPU must be a core component that integrates various computing capabilities for general scenarios. Zhang Jianzhong and his team were determined to create a fully functional GPU for the Chinese people.

Moore Threads’ HR head Shen Jie introduced, “90% of our R&D personnel come from 985, 211, and the top 100 universities globally according to QS rankings. On one hand, we are very proud to have so many excellent colleagues. On the other hand, we say we are actually a ‘hero-less hero team’. This is directly related to the company’s core culture, which advocates teamwork and team spirit. The entire chip R&D process involves thousands of steps, and each step requires very experienced experts. Only by connecting these steps one by one can we truly create an outstanding chip. Therefore, we are a ‘hero-less hero team’.”

Fu Hailiang, a graduate of Tsinghua University, spoke about the challenges of chip R&D, recalling the unforgettable process of transforming this endeavor from “impossible” to “possible”. Moore Threads was established in October 2020, and he joined the company relatively early when it had only about sixty to seventy employees, and the office space was quite cramped, with R&D, product, and functional departments all sitting together, even the air conditioning and doors were installed by themselves. Colleagues typically arrived at the office at 8 AM and left after 11 PM, with a high workload and fast pace. Fu Hailiang recalled, “Throughout the GPU chip R&D process, everyone gave their all. Whether in marketing, R&D, product teams, or leadership, everyone was fully committed.”

Currently, Moore Threads is still a startup company with over 1,000 employees. However, compared to overseas GPU manufacturers with at least 20,000 to 30,000 employees globally, the company will continue to focus on discovering more outstanding talent.

Multiple Policies Provide Significant Support

The semiconductor chip industry is a technology-intensive sector with fierce market competition. For a chip design enterprise that requires heavy investment, long cycles, and light assets, rapid growth undoubtedly faces funding challenges.

Since its establishment nearly five years ago, Moore Threads has completed several rounds of financing, with investors including China Mobile, Shenzhen Capital Group, Shanghai Guosheng, Bank of China International, Jianyin International, China Merchants Venture Capital, Zhongguancun Science City, and Sequoia Capital, among other well-known state-owned and venture capital institutions.

Traditional credit models are difficult to adapt to high-potential hard-tech enterprises like Moore Threads. In 2022, Moore Threads established contact with the Zhongguancun branch of Beijing Bank. Beijing Bank tailored a loan plan worth hundreds of millions for Moore Threads, and the bank’s technology (inclusive) finance specialty team finalized the funding in less than a month, helping to reduce financing costs through the first loan interest subsidy policy in Beijing, providing significant support for the company’s product R&D and innovation.

In 2024, during a critical phase of Moore Threads’ key project, the Beijing branch of Construction Bank, under the organization of the People’s Bank of China Beijing branch and the Zhongguancun branch, took on the responsibility of leading a syndicate model to provide the company with a liquidity loan worth hundreds of millions, completing the entire process in just three working days and efficiently finalizing the financing plan in two months.

It is reported that in March 2023, Moore Threads was recognized as a “Specialized, Refined, Unique, and Innovative” enterprise in Beijing, and the following year received the unicorn enterprise certification in Beijing. In September 2024, it was recognized as a national-level specialized and innovative “Little Giant” enterprise.

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