DeePhi Tech
深鉴科技
DeePhi Tech (深鉴科技) was a Chinese AI chip company founded in 2016 by Tsinghua professor Wang Yu together with his students Yao Song and Shan Yi, who served as CTO and led a hundred-plus-person R&D team that shipped one of China's first AI chips, the 28nm "Tingtao" . In 2018 it was acquired by Xilinx, the world's largest FPGA maker, for $300 million in cash — described by a Monolith piece as the first Chinese star startup of the AI-chip wave to be acquired, and by 5Y Capital as the first scaled exit in China's AI sector . On the investor side, Gaorong Ventures was an early backer, with founding partner Yue Bin managing the deal and VP Wang Xin participating . Post-acquisition, Shan Yi went on to lead AMD/Xilinx's Vitis AI product line and later joined PhiGent Robotics as co-founder and CEO .
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