{"id":570066,"date":"2026-07-05T13:28:22","date_gmt":"2026-07-05T13:28:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/570066\/"},"modified":"2026-07-05T13:28:22","modified_gmt":"2026-07-05T13:28:22","slug":"chinese-ai-chip-start-up-exits-stealth-mode-bets-on-3d-stacking-to-bypass-us-controls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/570066\/","title":{"rendered":"Chinese AI chip start-up exits stealth mode, bets on 3D stacking to bypass US controls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">A Chinese artificial intelligence chip start-up led by industry veteran Wei Shaojun has emerged from stealth mode, joining giants like Huawei Technologies in betting on 3D stacking to bypass US tech export controls.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Dongfang Suanxin, a company headed by Wei, who is also vice-president of the China Semiconductor Industry Association, has stepped into the spotlight by launching a corporate website and social media account, positioning itself as a new but formidable player in China\u2019s AI computing sector.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The move on Wednesday, which marks the first time the company has communicated publicly since its founding in 2024, reflects how China\u2019s chip industry is stepping up efforts to build a self-reliant AI chip ecosystem and bypass US tech export controls.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The company said it utilises two core technologies &#8211; \u201csoftware-defined chips\u201d and \u201c3D stacked near-memory computing\u201d &#8211; to provide ultra-high-performance computing chips. Its technology relies entirely on a domestic supply chain, it added.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The bet on 3D stacking also reflects a wider trend across the global chip industry in the post-Moore\u2019s Law era, where semiconductor giants are increasingly turning to 3D chip architecture as traditional scaling reaches its physical limits.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Wei Shaojun delivers a speech during an AI chip summit in 2020. Photo: Handout\" data-qa=\"BaseImage-handleRenderImage-StyledImage\" class=\"e1gf69pb2 css-6ikqhs e445x7d0\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/37b5eb99-3958-4fe9-9626-1d87592eb309_354dd61d.jpg\" title=\"Wei Shaojun delivers a speech during an AI chip summit in 2020. Photo: Handout\"\/>Wei Shaojun delivers a speech during an AI chip summit in 2020. Photo: Handout<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The concept has become more popular in China recently after tech giant Huawei in late May proposed the \u201cTau Scaling Law\u201d, a new engineering principle that aims to achieve equivalent increases in transistor density through 3D architectural innovation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Chinese artificial intelligence chip start-up led by industry veteran Wei Shaojun has emerged from stealth mode, joining&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":570067,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[261],"tags":[243029,291,243028,19024,289,290,1793,243030,243031,18,7093,19,17,105792,26609,243034,2792,10522,82,243032,243033,5316],"class_list":["post-570066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-3d-stacking","tag-ai","tag-ai-computing-sector","tag-alibaba-group-holding","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-beijing","tag-china-semiconductor-industry-association","tag-dongfang-suanxin","tag-eire","tag-huawei-technologies","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-jack-ma","tag-jd-com","tag-national-ai-industry-investment-fund","tag-shanghai","tag-shenzhen","tag-technology","tag-us-tech-export-controls","tag-wei-shaojun","tag-xiaomi"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116867610349193335","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570066","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=570066"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570066\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/570067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=570066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=570066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=570066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}