Chinese AI chip firm raises nearly 1B yuan as next-generation card is due this year

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Motern AI completed a nearly 1 billion yuan Series C round and plans to release its SparsePrime inference card this year; the article says its S30 and S40 cards achieved three consecutive wins in MLPerf Inference.

Why it matters: HKR-H/K/R all pass, but this is still a funding and roadmap item; SparsePrime specs, production timing, and customers are not disclosed. Featured threshold, not P1.