Moore Threads

Moore Threads Technology Co. Ltd (Chinese: 摩尔线程) is a Chinese technology company specializing in graphics processing unit (GPU) design, established in October 2020 by Zhang Jianzhong (张建中), the former global vice-president of Nvidia and general manager of Nvidia China.[1] The company claims to be the first Chinese company to introduce a domestic, "fully-featured" GPU solution.[2]

Moore Threads Technology Co. Ltd
Native name
摩尔线程
IndustryGPUs
FoundedOctober 2020; 3 years ago (2020-10)
FounderZhang Jianzhong
HeadquartersBeijing, China
Key people
Zhang Jianzhong (CEO)
Websitewww.mthreads.com

History

In October 2020, the company was founded by former global VP and China GM of Nvidia, Zhang Jianzhong, and subsequently received funding through the first year in three funding rounds from investors such as Shenzhen Capital Group, GGV Capital, Sequoia Capital China, ByteDance, and Tencent.[2][3]

U.S. sanctions

In October 2023, the United States Department of Commerce added Moore Threads to the Bureau of Industry and Security's Entity List[4]

Products

On 31 March 2022, it announced its first products, the MTT S60 for desktop PCs and workstations, and the MTT S2000 for servers, based on the first generation MUSA (Moore Threads Unified System Architecture, also known as "苏堤").[1][5]

MUSA MTT S60MUSA MTT S2000
Process12 nm12 nm
MUSA GPU cores2,0484,096
Performance6 TFLOPS (192 GPix/s fill rate)12 TFLOPS
VRAM8 GB LPGDDR4X32 GB (unconfirmed memory type)
Form factorSingle slot blowerSingle slot passive
API supportDirectX, Vulkan, OpenGL, OpenGL ESDirectX, Vulkan, OpenGL, OpenGL ES
OS supportx86/ARM/LoongArch; Windows/Linuxx86/ARM/LoongArch; Windows/Linux
Display supportDisplayPort 1.4, up to 8KDisplayPort 1.4, up to 8K

See also

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