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Moore Threads’ $1.1 Billion STAR Market IPO Draws 4,126x Retail Demand

Investor mania reflects Beijing’s drive for home-grown chips under tightened U.S. export rules.

Overview

  • Retail subscriptions exceeded available shares by 4,126 times, with a lottery-style process yielding a 0.036% allotment rate.
  • The offering raises about 8 billion yuan and values Moore Threads at 53.7 billion yuan, with the debut date yet to be set.
  • Company filings say the proceeds will fund research and development for next-generation GPU technologies.
  • Founded in 2020 by former Nvidia executive James Zhang, the firm counts Tencent and ByteDance among its backers.
  • Technical reporting notes Moore Threads remains primarily a consumer and workstation GPU supplier with mixed benchmarks and no publicly demonstrated, production-grade AI data-center platform.