What EVAS Intelligence does

EVAS Intelligence (奕行智能) is a privately held Chinese AI chip design company founded in January 2022 by semiconductor veteran Liu Hui (ex-Socionext SVP APAC, Cadence, Fujitsu, STMicroelectronics). The company is headquartered in Beijing with R&D and operating centers in Shanghai, Hangzhou, Nanjing, Shenzhen and Guangzhou, plus planned offices in Hong Kong and Singapore. EVAS builds general-purpose AI compute chips and acceleration solutions around a proprietary EVAMIND AI core architecture that fuses an open RISC-V (including RVV) instruction set with a self-developed TPU-like architecture and a proprietary virtual instruction set called VISA, supported by the ELink high-speed interconnect, an ACE multi-level AI compiler, an ETK software stack and the EVA-series toolchain (GDB/Profiler/Simulator).

Its commercial portfolio centers on three product families: the EPOCH series of cloud and data-center AI compute chips (with mass production beginning in 2025) and the corresponding EPOCH PCIe 5.0 acceleration cards for enterprise server deployment, the Hestia (智枢) series of automotive AI computing hubs for L2+ autonomous driving, cockpit and in-cabin perception, and the earlier-generation ELYNX series of automotive AI cabin image quality chips. The company sells primarily via direct enterprise sales to leading Chinese system vendors, internet companies, data centers and automotive OEMs, with emerging channel partnerships (Supercomm, Hangjinyun) and a strategic relationship with China Mobile.

EVAS generates revenue through hardware sales of its AI chips and PCIe acceleration cards, with commercial orders exceeding CNY 10 billion signed in 2024, mass-production shipment of EPOCH starting in 2025, and a self-disclosed revenue growth rate of approximately 200% per year since 2023. The company is venture-backed, having raised over CNY 1 billion cumulatively across seed, angel, Pre-A, Pre-A+, Series A, A+ and A++ rounds (2022-2025) and a CNY 1.5 billion Series B in 2026 that included a several-hundred-million-RMB strategic investment from China Mobile's Chain Development Fund, with the company actively planning an IPO.

Name

EVAS Intelligence

Legal name

奕行智能（北京）科技有限公司 (EVAS Intelligence Co., Ltd.)

Website

https://evas.ai

Company type

Private

Founded year

2022

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

101–250 employees

Short description

EVAS Intelligence is a Chinese AI chip design company founded in 2022 that builds RISC-V + VISA-based general AI compute chips (EPOCH for data centers, Hestia for automotive), selling hardware to leading Chinese system vendors, internet platforms, data centers and automotive OEMs.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

AI Accelerator Chips

NAICS

Electronic Computer Manufacturing (334111), Computer and Peripheral Equipment Manufacturing (33411)

SIC

Electronic Computers (3571)

akta.pro primary industry

AI Accelerators (GPUs/TPUs/NPUs/ASICs) (HDAAAAAA)

akta.pro secondary industries

AI Compute Virtualization & Scheduling (GPU virtualization, cluster schedulers) (HDAAAAAG), AI Compiler, Runtime & Kernel Optimization Software (CUDA/ROCm/XLA, graph compilers) (HDAAAAAI), Edge AI Hardware & NPUs (SoCs, modules, accelerators) (HDAAAJAC)

Keywords

• AI accelerator chips
• RISC-V AI computing
• Data center AI chips
• Automotive AI chips
• Neural processing units

Headquarters

HQ city

Nansha

HQ country

China

HQ region

Asia

Offices8 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Hardware or Manufacturing

Cost components

Personnel, Technology or R&D, Supply Chain, Marketing or Sales, Operations, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. AI Chip & Acceleration Card Sales (EPOCH series): Primary revenue from sales of self-developed AI compute chips (EPOCH series) and PCIe acceleration cards to leading system vendors, internet companies, data centers and industry customers. Entered mass production shipment in 2025 with multiple large commercial orders; revenue growing approximately 200% per year since 2023.
2. Automotive AI Chip Sales (Hestia series): Secondary revenue stream from sales of Hestia in-vehicle AI compute platforms (centralized AI Box edge solutions integrating ADAS, cockpit, parking, lighting and cabin perception) to automotive OEMs. Supports L2+ autonomous driving and on-vehicle large-model inference.
3. Enterprise AI Acceleration Solutions (EPOCH PCIe Cards): Revenue from EPOCH PCIe 5.0 acceleration cards and multi-card cluster solutions (8-card linear scaling) targeting internet, telecom operator and finance customers running computer vision, NLP and voice workloads on hundred-billion-parameter models.

Go-to-market motion4 records

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels6 records

Core offering

EVAS Intelligence designs and sells self-developed AI compute chips and acceleration cards built on a proprietary RISC-V + VISA dual-fusion architecture, with the EVAMIND AI core integrating tensor, vector, scalar and 4D data engines. The company sells the EPOCH series of cloud/data-center AI compute chips and PCIe 5.0 acceleration cards to internet, telecom, data center and finance customers, and the Hestia series of in-vehicle AI computing hubs to automotive OEMs. It also provides the ELink interconnect, ACE multi-level AI compiler and EVA toolchain as part of its full-stack AI compute platform.

Product overview

EVAS Intelligence (奕行智能) offers a unified AI compute platform built on the proprietary EVAMIND AI core architecture with VISA (Virtual Instruction Set Architecture) fused with RISC-V + RVV instruction sets. The product portfolio centers on three flagship chip families: the Hestia (智枢) series in-vehicle AI computing hub for automotive applications, the EPOCH series AI computing chip for data center and cloud deployment, and the EPOCH series PCIe AI acceleration card for enterprise server integration. These products are supported by the ELink high-speed interconnect technology, ACE (Advanced Compute Engine) compiler, ETK basic software stack, and EVA-series toolchain (EVA-GDB debugger, EVA-Profiler, EVA-Simulator). The ELYNX series represents an earlier automotive product generation, with EPOCH being the current RISC-V-based mass-production offering that integrates multiple EVAMIND cores with Turing-complete vector engines and large tensor units, supporting FP8/INT4 native precision for 2-4x compute throughput improvement.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• HESTIA (Hestia 智枢): Vehicle AI Central Computing Unit / in-vehicle AI Box edge-side solution. Automotive-grade AI computing product line covering smart driving, cockpit, vehicle control, and body domains.
• EPOCH (Epoch E100)
• ELYNX
• EVAMIND™
• ELink (ELINK)

Products and services

• EPOCH Series AI Computing Chip Industry's first RISC-V + VISA dual-fusion general AI computing chip with multiple EVAMIND AI cores and large tensor units, supporting FP8/INT4 native precision for 2-4x compute throughput and 4D hardware data preprocessing, targeted at data center and cloud AI training and inference workloads.
• EPOCH Series PCIe AI Acceleration Card High-performance AI inference acceleration card built on the EPOCH chip with PCIe 5.0 interface for plug-and-play deployment in mainstream servers; supports ELink-based elastic scaling from 8-card single-machine to multi-machine clusters for batch inference of hundred-billion parameter models in computer vision, NLP and voice applications.
• Hestia (智枢) Series Vehicle AI Computing Hub AI-native centralized in-vehicle computing chip for next-generation E/E architectures, integrating CMS image processing, full-vehicle data fusion, L2+ autonomous driving, automatic parking, intelligent headlight control, audio-visual quality enhancement, and DMS/OMS cabin perception, with on-device billion-parameter local LLM inference for cross-domain decision making.
• ELYNX Series Automotive AI Chip First-generation automotive AI chip SoC launched in October 2023, including the world's first AI cabin image quality chip and a medium-compute ADAS chip, built on the EVAMIND AI core architecture for cabin image quality enhancement and assisted driving applications.

Quantifiable outcome

• EPOCH chip delivers 25-52% performance advantage over competing domestic chips on ResNet-50, BERT-Base, GPT-J, and Llama 2
• +6 more outcomes

Named customers2 records

Segments5 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration9 records

AI capability15 records

Feature9 records

Partnerships

Nine partnerships are on record, tiered core (vllm ecosystem enabler), core (open-source collaboration), exploratory (cooperation groundwork), core (chip agent + aidc delivery), minor (ecosystem co-marketing), core (ecosystem initiative), flagship (strategic membership) and exploratory (research collaboration).

• Red Hat (红帽)core (vllm ecosystem enabler)Technology or Integration · 24 March 2026Jointly hosted a vLLM technical workshop with EVAS, with participation from Red Hat APAC CTO office chief architect Zhang Jiaju. Co-driving deep RISC-V AI compute integration with vLLM and the broader open-source inference stack.
• vLLM Communitycore (open-source collaboration)Technology or Integration · 24 March 2026Joint technical engagement with vLLM maintainers (including Luka Govedic) to optimize the vLLM-EVAS framework; EVAS plans to open-source VISA virtual instruction set and contribute upstream PRs to vLLM.
• Hangjin AI / Hangjinyun (航锦人工智能 & 航锦云)exploratory (cooperation groundwork)GTM or Marketing Partner · 18 December 2025Hangjin AI and Hangjinyun teams visited EVAS's Shanghai office for in-depth discussion on RISC-V AI chip innovation and intelligent computing ecosystem, laying foundation for subsequent strategic cooperation.
• Supercomm (超讯通信)core (chip agent + aidc delivery)Channel Partner/ Reseller/ Distributor · 15 December 2025Supercomm CEO Zhong Haihui visited EVAS's Shanghai office to explore cooperation on domestic AI compute chip agency and green intelligent computing center ('投、建、运' integrated) projects. Both parties agreed to set up a dedicated working team to drive full cooperation.
• RDSA Industry Alliance (跃昉科技 + RDSA联盟)minor (ecosystem co-marketing)Strategic or Co-development Partner · 24 November 2025At the 2025 RISC-V Industry Development Conference & RDSA International Forum, RDSA Industry Alliance Vice Chair Jiang Zhaohui (founder & CEO of LeapFive Technology) cited EVAS's EPOCH series as a representative RISC-V + VISA dual-fusion general AI chip case study.
• Jiachen Plan / RISC-V Prosperity 2036 (甲辰计划)core (ecosystem initiative)Strategic or Co-development Partner · 11 July 2025Joined the cross-industry Jiachen Plan initiative to drive RISC-V ecosystem maturity across data centers, desktops, mobile/wearable and IoT by 2036. Contributes EVAS's RISC-V AI compute expertise.
• RISC-V International Associationflagship (strategic membership)Strategic or Co-development Partner · 1 May 2025Joined RISC-V International Association as a strategic member in May 2025, deeply participating in global open-source compute standard building and shaping RISC-V AI extensions.
• Triton Community (OpenAI Triton / FlagGems)core (open-source collaboration)Technology or Integration · 1 January 2025Joint effort to bring Triton compilation flow to a RISC-V DSA backend and to open-source the VISA virtual instruction set, building a 'CUDA-like' developer ecosystem for RISC-V DSA. EVAS has implemented functional support for Triton.
• Zhejiang Lab (之江实验室)exploratory (research collaboration)Strategic or Co-development Partner · 4 December 2023Visited Zhejiang Lab for cross-disciplinary exploration of AI application, technology transfer, and industrial collaboration across intelligent perception, AI, intelligent computing, networks and systems.

Scale indicators16 records

Recent moves8 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Emerging players

• Hailo: Israel-based edge AI accelerator company (Hailo-8/15). Comparable RISC-V+AI architecture focus on edge AI workloads, providing an international reference point for EVAS's roadmap, though Hailo focuses on edge rather than data-center scale.

Direct peers

• Horizon Robotics: Leading Chinese automotive AI chip company (Journey series). Direct competitor to EVAS's Hestia product line in smart-driving and cockpit AI, with deeper OEM design-in traction (BYD, Li Auto, etc.) but a more proprietary (non-RISC-V) architecture.
• Black Sesame Technologies: Chinese automotive AI chip company (华山 series) competing with EVAS Hestia in intelligent driving SoCs for OEMs. Similar stage and customer profile within the automotive vertical.
• Moore Threads: Chinese full-stack GPU company producing data-center and consumer GPUs. Competes with EVAS in the same Chinese data-center and enterprise AI accelerator segment, though with a GPGPU rather than RISC-V+ASIC architecture.
• MetaX (Muxi Integrated Circuit): Shanghai-based GPU startup developing cloud and edge AI accelerator chips. Direct peer to EVAS in the Chinese domestic AI chip market, with comparable customer base and product positioning.
• Biren Technology: Shanghai-based AI GPU startup developing data-center training and inference accelerators. Targets the same Chinese hyperscaler and system-vendor customers as EVAS EPOCH and is one of the most direct mass-production competitors.
• Cambricon Technologies: China's most established domestic AI chip designer (Cambricon 1/2/3, Siyuan series), directly competing with EVAS in cloud and edge AI accelerators for hyperscalers and Chinese internet companies. Both target the same NVIDIA-substitution opportunity in the Chinese data center.
• StarFive Technology: Chinese RISC-V IP and SoC company (VisionFive boards, JH series cores). Adjacent peer sharing the RISC-V + China-market strategy, though StarFive is more IP-focused whereas EVAS ships AI accelerator silicon.
• Enflame Technology (Suiyuan): Shanghai-based cloud AI training and inference chip company (DTU/Cloudblazer). Directly comparable business model and customer base to EVAS, with mass production of data-center AI accelerators for Chinese internet and telco customers.

Broad incumbents

• T-Head Semiconductor (Alibaba Pingtouge): Alibaba's in-house chip arm, with both RISC-V (XuanTie cores) and AI accelerator (Hanguang) IP/products. Overlaps with EVAS at the RISC-V + AI compute intersection and is a strategic ecosystem leader in China's RISC-V roadmap.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles3 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds8 records

Investors36 records

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M&A

Investments

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