Core Viewpoint - The domestic GPU company "Mole Thread" has completed its IPO counseling, marking a significant step towards its public listing in the competitive semiconductor industry [2][4]. Company Overview - Mole Thread was founded in October 2020 by Zhang Jianzhong, a former NVIDIA executive with over 20 years of experience in the GPU field [7]. - The company has launched multiple generations of GPU chips and has obtained 425 authorized patents by October 2024 [7]. - Mole Thread has developed a comprehensive product line that includes AI chips, gaming graphics cards, and cluster computing solutions, catering to both B-end and C-end markets [7]. Product Development - Mole Thread has released three generations of fully functional GPU chips: "Sudi," "Chunxiao," and "Quyuan" [7]. - The "Sudi" chip is the first to support AV1 encoding and features capabilities for modern graphics rendering, AI computation acceleration, and scientific computing [8]. - The "Chunxiao" chip integrates 22 billion transistors and shows significant performance improvements over "Sudi," including a 3x increase in graphics rendering and a 4x increase in encoding capabilities [8]. - The "Quyuan" chip, the third generation, offers a performance enhancement of 3 to 5 times compared to "Chunxiao" [8]. Technological Advancements - Mole Thread's "KUA" intelligent computing cluster solution has expanded from a thousand-card scale to a ten-thousand-card scale, enabling high-performance computing systems for training large models [9]. - The ten-thousand-card cluster supports various precision calculations, including FP8, and is compatible with mainstream large models like GPT and DeepSeek [9]. Financial Background - Since its establishment, Mole Thread has undergone six rounds of financing, raising several billion yuan in total [10]. - Notable funding rounds include a 20 billion yuan A round in November 2021 and a B+ round exceeding 2 billion yuan in November 2023 [11]. Corporate Structure - In 2024, Mole Thread underwent a shareholding reform, increasing its registered capital from 24.41 million yuan to 330 million yuan in preparation for its IPO [12].