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BirenTech wins 174M yuan bid for Kunlun Lingyi AI compute project Package 1
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Shanghai Biren Technology Co., Ltd. (壁仞科技) has won a 174 million yuan ($24 million) bid for Package 1 of the Kunlun Lingyi Intelligent Computing Center Project (Phase 1), becoming the sole supplier for that package. The total procurement budget for the project is approximately 626 million yuan, split into two packages. Package 1, valued at 174 million yuan, was awarded to BirenTech with a score of 89.71 points. The company must complete delivery within 45 calendar days of contract signing. Package 2, with a budget of 452 million yuan, was declared void due to fewer than three suppliers submitting bids, highlighting the concentration and scarcity of domestic AI compute supply chains. BirenTech's core product for the bid is its Bili series GPU, based on a classic GPGPU architecture with dedicated tensor compute units. The company has three product generations: BR106 (mass-produced in 2023), BR166 (chiplet design), and BR110 (edge and cloud inference). Its next-generation flagship training-inference chip, BR20X, targets a 2026 launch. BirenTech also detailed its proprietary BLink protocol for GPU direct connectivity and OCS optical circuit switching for scale-out, having delivered a 2048-card optical interconnect GPU supernode cluster by end of 2025 with a 95% linear speedup ratio. Its BIRENSUPA software platform supports major AI frameworks and models from Chinese firms like GLM, DeepSeek, Qwen, and Kimi.
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Shanghai Biren Technology Co., Ltd. has won the bid for Package 1 of the Kunlun Lingyi Intelligent Computing Center Project (Phase I) with a bid amount of RMB 174 million, becoming the sole winning supplier for that package.
The total procurement budget for the project is approximately RMB 626 million, divided into two packages:
- Package 1: Budget of approximately RMB 174 million
- Package 2: Budget of approximately RMB 452 million
Biren Technology secured Package 1 with a comprehensive evaluation score of 89.71 points, ranking first overall. According to the contract requirements, Biren must complete delivery within 45 calendar days after signing.
Notably, Package 2 was declared invalid due to fewer than three suppliers submitting response documents. The failure of a package with a budget exceeding RMB 450 million due to insufficient participating vendors reflects the current concentration and scarcity of the domestic AI computing power supply chain.
Core Product: Biren Bili Series GPUs
The core product in Biren Technology's winning bid is the Bili series GPU. According to public information, the Bili GPU is based on a classic GPGPU architecture, with its core computing unit—the SPC stream processor—integrating dedicated tensor computing units called T-Cores.
The company has developed a three-generation product matrix:
- BR106: Mass production began in 2023
- BR110: Designed for edge and cloud inference scenarios
- BR166: Adopts chiplet design
The next-generation flagship training and inference chip, BR20X, is targeted for release in 2026, supporting data formats such as FP8 and FP4, with larger memory and high interconnect bandwidth.
Interconnect and Scale-Out Capabilities
Biren Technology has developed its proprietary BLink protocol for direct GPU-to-GPU connectivity, achieving a single-channel bidirectional bandwidth of up to 64 GB/s and supporting up to 8-card point-to-point direct interconnection.
At the scale-out level, the company adopts an OCS (Optical Circuit Switching) solution. As of the end of 2025, Biren has successfully delivered a 2048-card optical interconnect GPU supernode cluster, achieving a linear acceleration ratio of 95% for thousand-card clusters.
Software Ecosystem
Biren Technology has achieved Day 0-level adaptation for major large language models, covering leading domestic model developers including:
- Zhipu AI (GLM)
- DeepSeek
- Alibaba (Qwen)
- Moonshot AI (Kimi)
Its BIRENSUPA software platform supports mainstream frameworks such as PyTorch, TensorFlow, and PaddlePaddle, as well as inference frameworks like vLLM.
Editor: Lin Zi, Chip Intelligence
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