How Cambricon Became China’s First Trillion‑Yuan AI Chip Company — And Why NVIDIA Should Watch

Описание: On June 30, 2026, Cambricon Technologies became the first AI compute chip stock to break the trillion‑yuan barrier, briefly trading at ¥1,620 per share. This deep‑dive documentary traces Cambricon’s improbable journey from a blank‑sheet AI chip concept in a Chinese Academy of Sciences lab to a $140 billion market‑cap giant that the market is already calling “King Cambricon.”

We unpack the financial explosion — Q2 2026 revenue up 44x year‑on‑year, net profit swinging from years of losses to three consecutive profitable quarters, and contract liabilities soaring 612‑fold. You’ll see how a single understated comment from DeepSeek’s V3.1 update, revealing a precision format designed for next‑gen Chinese chips, lit the fuse on a domestic chip frenzy and thrust Cambricon into the spotlight.

The story is filled with near‑death survival tests: Huawei abruptly pivoting from partner to competitor, the US Entity List blocking access to TSMC, and years of devastating losses. Each time, Cambricon reinvented itself — building a full‑stack hardware and software ecosystem and pivoting toward AI inference ASICs at precisely the moment the market exploded.

We also lay out the real competitive landscape: how its Siyuan 590 chip compares to NVIDIA’s A100, why the software moat of CUDA is the ultimate challenge, and the staggering talent gap (792 R&D staff vs. NVIDIA’s 22,200). With a fresh ¥3.985 billion private placement and a market still nowhere near saturated, is Cambricon China’s best shot at an alternative AI computing ecosystem? Watch to decide.

Key Timestamps

00:00 Cambricon hits 1 trillion yuan market cap
01:24 DeepSeek’s precision format comment ignites domestic chip boom
02:03 Revenue explodes: Q1 up 159.5%, net profit 1.01 billion yuan
02:56 Q2 revenue jumps 44-fold, three straight profitable quarters
04:05 How Cambricon’s margins compare to NVIDIA
04:52 Contract liabilities skyrocket 612-fold
05:25 Stock price rocketed from ¥50 to ¥1,587 — a 30x gain
06:33 Origin story: the Chen brothers’ AI chip idea
08:01 Landmark “DianNao” paper puts Chinese AI chips on the map
09:15 Huawei partnership and the crisis of being abandoned
10:40 US Entity List sanctions, TSMC blocked, near collapse
11:29 China’s 7nm supply chain and AI model explosion revive Cambricon
12:57 The booming AI inference chip market and ASIC advantage
14:11 DeepSeek’s ecosystem‑level embrace of domestic chips
15:08 Software battle: NeuWare and MagicMind vs. NVIDIA’s CUDA
16:07 Siyuan 590 targets 80‑90% of A100, but gap with H100/B200 is wide
17:40 Talent and capital gap, ¥3.985 billion fundraising plan
18:28 Why Cambricon doesn’t need to beat NVIDIA today to keep rising

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