Moore Threads Technology Co. Ltd (Chinese: 摩尔线程) is a Chinese company specializing in graphics processing unit (GPU) design.[1][2]
History
The company was founded in October 2020 by Zhang Jianzhong, former global vice president and general manager of Nvidia‘s Chinese branch.[3] It was co-founded by Zhang Yubo.[4] It received funding from investors including Shenzhen Capital Group, GGV Capital, Sequoia Capital China, ByteDance, and Tencent.[2][5]
On 5 December 2025, Moore Threads held its initial public offering on the Shanghai Stock Exchange raising over US$1 billion. It jumped 468% on its trading debut. Liang Wenfeng, founder of High-Flyer and DeepSeek, was listed as the top institutional investor.[6]
U.S. sanctions
In October 2023, the United States Department of Commerce added Moore Threads to the Bureau of Industry and Security‘s Entity List.[7]
Products
On 31 March 2022, it announced its first products, the MTT S60 for desktop PCs and workstations, and the MTT S2000 for servers, based on the first generation MUSA (Moore Threads Unified System Architecture, also known as “苏堤“).[1][8]
| S60 | S80 | S2000 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Manufacturing process | 12 nm | ||
| FP32 ALUs | 2,048 | 4,096 | |
| Theoretical performance
(TFlops FP32) |
6 | 14.4 | 12 |
| VRAM capacity | 8 GB | 16 GB | 32 GB |
| VRAM type | LPDDR4X | GDDR6 | |
| Form factor | Single-slot | Dual-slot | |
| API support | DirectX, Vulkan, OpenGL, OpenGL ES | ||
| OS support | Microsoft Windows, Linux | ||
| Platform support | x86, x86-64, Aarch32, Aarch64, LoongArch | ||
| Display support | HDMI 2.1, DisplayPort 1.4 | ||
See also
References
- ^ a b Mark Tyson (March 30, 2022). “China’s First Domestic GPU Announced With 1080p League of Legends Demo”. Tom’s Hardware.
- ^ a b Francisco Pires (November 30, 2021). “Chinese Company ‘Moore Threads’ Announces Full GPU Development Capabilities”. Tom’s Hardware.
- ^ “Meet Moore Threads: how former Nvidia vice-president created a Chinese GPU star”. South China Morning Post. 2025-10-03. Retrieved 2026-02-14.
- ^ “China’s Rising AI Billionaires”. Bloomberg.com. 2026-02-12. Retrieved 2026-02-14.
- ^ “Chinese GPU Newbie Moore Threads Bags USD313 Million in Series A Round”. www.yicaiglobal.com.
- ^ Zhang, Shidong (2025-12-05). “Moore Threads shares dazzle with fivefold jump in Shanghai debut”. South China Morning Post. Retrieved 2025-12-05.
- ^ “美更新对华芯片出口控制规定，你需要知道的四大要点”. 美国之音 (in Chinese). 2023-10-18. Retrieved 2023-10-18.
- ^ Wilson, Jason R. (March 31, 2022). “Moore Threads MTT S60 GPU Is China’s First Domestic GPU With DirectX Support & Ability To Play eSports Games”.
