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Xiangdi 5nm GPU completes tape-out verification

Fred Chen

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On September 3, Anfu Technology stated on its interactive platform that the new generation "Fuxi" architecture chip developed by Xiangdi has completed tape-out verification. The chip performs excellently in terms of graphics rendering capabilities and parallel computing performance.

It is reported that the chip uses a 5nm process, has a computing power of 160TFLOPS (FP32), integrates 12GB HBM2 video memory, has excellent graphics rendering and parallel computing performance, and after optimization, it has the technical foundation to run "Black Myth: Wukong". Currently, game adaptation testing is underway.

It is reported that the "Fuxi" architecture will launch two new products with leading domestic levels: Fuxi A0 fills the gap in domestic high-end rendering, and Fuxi B0 (GPU+NPU fusion) is mainly aimed at the AIPC market, supporting edge deployment of mainstream models such as LLAMA and Sora (it was disclosed in April that the chip was in the tape-out stage).

In 2025, Xiangdi completed a new round of strategic financing worth hundreds of millions of yuan, with Anfu Technology, an A-share listed company, participating in this round of financing.

Founded in 2020, Xiangdi is a high-performance general-purpose/dedicated processor chip design company. The company develops high-performance, low-power general-purpose CPUs/GPUs and related dedicated chips with complete independent intellectual property rights, suitable for desktops, workstations, edge computing, and other fields.

 
This development, which happened a little over two months ago, may not signify much in the GPU world (compared to Huawei and NVIDIA obviously), but a 5nm GPU tapeout in China at this point is significant, since last November TSMC and Samsung have stopped shipping AI-related chips at 7nm and below to China. So it indicates a 5nm domestic process establishment, probably at SMIC.

 
SMIC’s “7nm” output is extremely small
It barely covers the needs of Huawei’s Mate-series SoCs (Kirin 9000S/9010/9020) and Ascend GPU. Low yield, extremely high cost, and nowhere near enough even for Huawei phones SoC and GPU.
CCP explicitly treats “advanced nodes” as national strategic resources. Huawei = “highest-priority national project with maximum geopolitical value.”
Their 7nm and hypothetical 5nm capacity = political asset.
Therefore:
If Huawei can’t get enough 7nm capacity, how could SMIC possibly give nonexistent 5nm to Xiangdixian — a company on the verge of bankruptcy?
 
SMIC’s “7nm” output is extremely small
It barely covers the needs of Huawei’s Mate-series SoCs (Kirin 9000S/9010/9020) and Ascend GPU. Low yield, extremely high cost, and nowhere near enough even for Huawei phones SoC and GPU.
CCP explicitly treats “advanced nodes” as national strategic resources. Huawei = “highest-priority national project with maximum geopolitical value.”
Their 7nm and hypothetical 5nm capacity = political asset.
Therefore:
If Huawei can’t get enough 7nm capacity, how could SMIC possibly give nonexistent 5nm to Xiangdixian — a company on the verge of bankruptcy?
Xiangdixian is the key player here; it almost dissolved last year, but apparently got bailed out by Anfu (a battery developer?), probably with government arrangement.

At its website, Xiangdixian maintains it is doing domestic GPU production; it previously used 12nm, which likely came from TSMC (not sure SMIC has 12nm).

Anfu recently also maintained everything going ok so far: https://u.95579.com.cn/cjscweb/web/...=MzcwNzM1ZTY5ZDkzYjY5ODJiMTFmODk0MjdiYzc2ZTY=
 
Anfu sales and net profit in 2024 is less than $700M and $25M, respectively, in 2024, and fund a 5nm GPU SoC design which cost at least $500M?
 

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According to a friend at Huawei they have an SMIC based 5nm processor in production. It is a Kirin X90. They also have a 5nm SoC in process. I will be at IEDM next month, maybe we will hear more about it then. Scotten Jones will be there as well. There are no SMIC papers but the hallway talk should have something.
 
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