Cambricon’s third quarter profit surges 148% to US$210m amid push to replace Nvidia chips
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Shanghai-listed chipmaker Cambricon reported a 1.4 billion yuan net profit for the third quarter, marking a significant increase from 566.6 million yuan a year prior, driven by AI market expansion and revenue growth of 104.5 percent.
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Cambricon is a Shanghai-listed company specializing in artificial intelligence chip technology.
The Shanghai-listed chipmaker generated 1.4 billion yuan (US$210 million) in net profit for the three months ended September 30, up from 566.6 million yuan during the same period last year.
Revenue reached 3.5 billion yuan, an increase of 104.5 per cent from a year ago, according to its stock exchange filing. That was faster than the company’s 75.8 per cent revenue increase seen in the second quarter.
Cambricon attributed the revenue surge to its continuous market expansion and efforts to “facilitate the implementation of AI applications”. This top-line increase directly drove the year-on-year surge in total profit and net profit, the company said in the filing.
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