Editing by Kate Yuan

HOUMO.AI, a Chinese AI chip startup, organized a ceremony to unveil its head office in Nanjing Wisdom Park early this month.

Wu Qiang, co-founder and CEO of HOUMO.AI (后摩智能), said, “We have quickly built a full-stack team of nearly 100 people familiar with technologies in Computing-In-Memory, IC, algorithms, and software and hardware in less than a year after our founding.”

According to LinkedIn and HOUMO.AI website information, Wu Qiang obtained his Ph.D. from Princeton University in the U.S. He worked for Intel and AMD, being in the AMD’s GPGPU/OPENCL founding team. He also worked as Facebook’s senior staff research scientist. Later he returned to China and joined AI startup Horizon Robotics for three years in its Nanjing R&D operation as VP and CTO.

Established in 2020, HOUMO.AI is the first domestic company dedicated to large computing power chips based on Compute-In-Memory technology, according to its website. The company’s high-computing and low-power IC and industrial solutions are used in edge-computing terminals such as unmanned vehicles, generic robots, and cloud reasoning.

HOUMO.AI has appointed Professor Zhou Zhihua and Professor Shi Longxing as its chief consultants. They are well-known experts in the field of artificial intelligence and IC in China. Zhou Zhihua is the head of the Department of Computer Science and Technology and Dean of the School of Artificial Intelligence, Nanjing University. Shi Longxing is the Dean of the School of Electronic Science and Engineering, Southeast University.