[Tencent Chip Leader Gao Jianlin Resigns to Start a Business, Targeting the RISC-V High-Performance AI CPU Track] BlockBeats News, August 22: According to MaxForAI, Tencent's core chip development leader Gao Jianlin has recently left Tencent to embark on entrepreneurship, planning to focus on high-performance AI servers and Agentic AI (Intelligent Agent AI) by developing high-performance CPUs based on the RISC-V architecture. Gao Jianlin is regarded as one of the early key drivers of Tencent's in-house chip system. Records show that he established the FPGA hardware team within Tencent in 2013, began laying out AI chip development in 2018, founded the Penglai Laboratory in 2020, and drove the development and data center deployment of multiple AI chips at Tencent. This entrepreneurial venture is focused on CPUs rather than the currently highly competitive AI GPU market. Reports indicate that Gao Jianlin believes that with the rapid development of Agentic AI, AI inference processes will involve model invocation, tool execution, search, database interaction, and extensive task scheduling. CPUs will play a more critical role in scheduling and control within AI systems. It is reported that Gao Jianlin had already been involved in RISC-V-related development during his tenure at Tencent, participating in multiple technical areas such as chip architecture, verification, and backend development. His new company plans to build high-performance server CPUs based on the open instruction set RISC-V to penetrate the AI infrastructure market. Currently, the name of Gao Jianlin's new company, its financing status, and the specific release date of its products have not been disclosed. The market is closely watching whether it will become another emerging force in China's AI chip sector, targeting server CPUs and intelligent agent infrastructure. [Original Link]