MicroNano Core

MicroNano Core (杭州微纳核芯) is a Hangzhou-based computing-in-memory AI chip company, incubated out of the Zhejiang Peking University Institute of Information Technology; its team has worked on CIM technology since 2018 and in 2023 unveiled a proprietary 3D-CIM™ architecture — "3D near-memory + in-memory computing + RISC-V" — that it claims delivers 4x+ compute density and 10x+ power savings over von Neumann designs, positioning its chips for large-model inference on AI phones, PCs, and IoT devices . On the funding side, BlueRun Ventures led an oversubscribed RMB 100M+ Series B in late 2025 , and by mid-2026 the company had closed B3 and B4 tranches bringing the Series B total past RMB 1 billion, with BlueRun doubling down alongside strategic backers including Xiaomi, Luxshare, Lenovo Capital, SMIC Juyuan, and GigaDevice ; earlier investors included Sequoia China (HSG) and Peking University's tech-transfer fund . Beyond chips, it chairs the RISC-V computing-in-memory working group and in September 2025 kicked off the first RISC-V CIM standard effort with dozens of industry partners — BlueRun frames the bet as riding the shift toward edge-cloud collaborative AI inference .