Zhongke Yushu received hundreds of millions of yuan in Series A financing and became a top student in the DPU field of Zhongke Group

Recently, Zhongke Yusu announced that it has completed a round A financing of several hundred million yuan, led by Huatai Innovation, Lingjun Investment and old shareholder Guoxin Sichuang. This round of financing will be mainly used for the tape-out of the second-generation DPU chip K2 and subsequent R&D iterations.

DPU (Data Processing Unit) is a data-centric dedicated processor and an important computing chip in the post-Moore's Law era.

Founded in 2018, Zhongke Yusu focuses on the research and development of dedicated processors, and is committed to solving the core problem of insufficient general computing power in the post-Moore's Law era, providing core chips and solutions for the intelligent era.

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According to official information from Zhongke Yushu, its founding team comes from the State Key Laboratory of Architecture of the Institute of Computing Technology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and has deep technical accumulation in the field of chip architecture. In the three years since its establishment, it has obtained 50 invention patents. The company innovatively proposed the software defined accelerator technology (Software Defined Accelerator), independently developed the KPU (Kernel Processing Unit) chip architecture, and created the industry's first DPU chip with network database integrated acceleration function and smart network card series products and solutions.

It is reported that the KPU dedicated processor architecture of Zhongke Yusu has currently abstracted and extracted more than 80 types of functional cores in five major application fields, including network, security, and database. It can fully support the software-defined accelerated computing platform and use advanced architecture to achieve ultra-high performance agile heterogeneous chips.

It is reported that Zhongke Yusu's products were the first to be applied in the field of financial computing. Its heterogeneous acceleration card products and solutions based on the KPU architecture have been applied to scenarios such as financial ultra-fast trading, financial risk control, and ultra-low latency database heterogeneous acceleration in many leading securities companies. It has also reached strategic cooperation with companies such as Jinzheng Co., Ltd. and China Mobile Internet of Things, and achieved quarterly revenue of tens of millions this year.

According to official news from Zhongke Yusu, a new generation of ultra-low latency smart network card will be released in August. This will be the only smart network card in China that can independently develop the TCP/IP protocol stack with full hardware unloading. Its minimum TCP forwarding latency can reach the industry-leading 1.2 microseconds.