Xilect raises RMB 500M to build China's answer to Nvidia Thor
TL;DR
- Chinese GPU designer MetaX and humanoid-robot maker UBTECH each hold 35.01% of Xilect, with a third shareholder Fenglong holding 4.7%.
- The angel round of RMB 500 million closed at a RMB 4 billion post-money valuation, roughly six months after the venture was founded in May 2026.
- Xilect plans a development platform in 2027 and a first SoC in 2028; the company is still in architecture design and has not taped out silicon.
Six months after the venture was registered, a Chinese robotics-chip startup called Xilect has closed an angel round of RMB 500 million at a RMB 4 billion post-money valuation, TechNode reported. Chinese GPU designer MetaX and humanoid-robot maker UBTECH each hold 35.01% of the company, with a third shareholder, Fenglong, holding 4.7%, according to Gasgoo.
The design is a single system-on-chip "combining multimodal perception, decision-making and motion control on the robot itself," framed by Chinese trade press as a "Big and small brain integrated" architecture. Xilect's stated development goal is to "fully surpass NVIDIA Thor."
MetaX founder Chen Weiliang chairs the company. UBTECH founder Zhou Jian is vice chairman. Yang Xianbo, a former senior VP at H3C, is CEO.
The timeline: Xilect plans to give partners a development and verification platform in 2027, and ship its first SoC in 2028. Gasgoo reports the venture is still in the architecture-design phase and has not yet taped out a chip. "The rhetoric is bold, but the product remains on paper," the outlet writes.
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Originally reported by technode.com
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