Peng Chen

Peng Chen is a veteran Chinese chip executive who has just gone founder: per a BlueRun Ventures piece, he recently established Jiuwanli Future Technology, which has raised over $100 million across seed and angel rounds with BlueRun among its backers . His career spans 24-plus years across HiSilicon — nearly two decades, where he led the Kunpeng processor line as R&D head and later general manager, and ran Ascend chip R&D — and Horizon Robotics, which he joined in 2023 as head of chip R&D and president of the chip product line, shepherding the Journey 6 series from definition through mass production . The throughline, as the piece frames it, is that he's one of the few in China to have run the full "architecture definition — chip design — volume production" loop across three computing paradigms: general-purpose CPUs, AI processors, and automotive-grade chips . His new venture is betting on edge-side large-compute inference chips as infrastructure for the agentic-AI era .