{"id":12272,"date":"2025-12-16T10:03:44","date_gmt":"2025-12-16T10:03:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/metax-set-for-shanghai-debut-amid-frenzy-over-ai-chip-stocks-nvidia-uncertainty\/"},"modified":"2025-12-16T10:03:44","modified_gmt":"2025-12-16T10:03:44","slug":"metax-set-for-shanghai-debut-amid-frenzy-over-ai-chip-stocks-nvidia-uncertainty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/metax-set-for-shanghai-debut-amid-frenzy-over-ai-chip-stocks-nvidia-uncertainty\/","title":{"rendered":"MetaX set for Shanghai debut amid frenzy over AI chip stocks, Nvidia uncertainty"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1xdhyk6 ec74h0k0\" readability=\"13.138173302108\">Founded in <span data-qa=\"Component-Text\" class=\"css-0 ef9u0v00\">Shanghai<\/span> in September 2020 by former engineers at <span data-qa=\"Component-Text\" class=\"css-0 ef9u0v00\">Advanced Micro Devices<\/span>, MetaX priced its <span data-qa=\"Component-Text\" class=\"css-0 ef9u0v00\">initial public offering<\/span> at 104.66 yuan per share, which was expected to raise 4.2 billion yuan (US$596 million) from the sale of 40.1 million shares, with net proceeds estimated to reach 3.9 billion. That was the second-highest share price offer this year on the Nasdaq-style Star Market, behind Moore Threads&rsquo; 114.28 yuan.<\/div>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Based on its offer price, MetaX&rsquo;s implied market capitalisation stood at about 37.7 billion yuan. That was nearly 79 per cent higher compared with its pre-IPO valuation of 21.07 billion yuan in March.<\/p>\n<div data-qa=\"InlineAdSlot-Container\" class=\"css-zl1inp e11v3ui14\">\n<div class=\"e11v3ui10 e11v3ui13 css-1evd7i0 e1flwkbl0\" data-qa=\"AdSlot-Container\">\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The funds raised would be used for the &ldquo;development and industrialisation of next-generation, high-performance general-purpose&rdquo; graphics processing units (GPUs), as well as GPUs for the more demanding AI inferencing tasks.<\/p>\n<div datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1xdhyk6 ec74h0k0\" readability=\"9.4285714285714\">Investors&rsquo; high expectations for the MetaX IPO underscore China&rsquo;s drive for <span data-qa=\"Component-Text\" class=\"css-0 ef9u0v00\">semiconductor<\/span> self-sufficiency and AI innovation as part of its <span data-qa=\"Component-Text\" class=\"css-0 ef9u0v00\">15th five-year plan<\/span> amid the heightened tech war between Beijing and Washington.<\/div>\n<div class=\"image-inline-container e1a5rv550 css-1llrc1m e1yqhwb40\" data-qa=\"Component-renderMap-StyledDiv\">\n<div class=\"image-inline caption e1fvabeq0 css-19sk4h4 ea9pn0s0\" data-qa=\"Component-Container\">\n<figure class=\"image-inline caption ea9pn0s1 css-1qeofuq e1gf69pb0\" data-qa=\"ArticleImage-ArticleImageContainer\">\n<div data-qa=\"ArticleImage-handleRenderImage-ImageContainer\" class=\"css-0 e1gf69pb3\"><\/div><figcaption data-qa=\"ArticleImage-DescriptionContainer\" class=\"css-1ixmelf e1gf69pb1\">Shanghai&rsquo;s Nasdaq-style Star Market this week sees the trading debut of another Chinese AI chip designer, MetaX, after Moore Threads Technology earlier this month. Photo: Reuters<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><sub>MetaX set for Shanghai debut amid frenzy over AI chip stocks, Nvidia uncertainty<\/sub><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Founded in Shanghai in September 2020 by former engineers at Advanced Micro Devices, MetaX priced its initial public offering at 104.66 yuan per share, which was expected to raise 4.2 billion yuan (US$596 million) from the sale of 40.1 million shares, with net proceeds estimated to reach 3.9 billion. That was the second-highest share price&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/metax-set-for-shanghai-debut-amid-frenzy-over-ai-chip-stocks-nvidia-uncertainty\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;MetaX set for Shanghai debut amid frenzy over AI chip stocks, Nvidia uncertainty&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12273,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12272","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12272"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12272\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}