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🧠 Career beginnings at Huawei: From engineer to chief architect of the HiSilicon Kirin chips — the Chinese answer to Apple and Qualcomm.
In 2017, he joined Cambricon. As CTO, Liang was responsible for overall technical planning and deepened the IP-licensing partnership with Huawei.
⚡ Break & conflict in 2022: he left due to strategic disagreements. Result: The stock dropped by double digits, followed by lawsuits worth around 600 million USD.
🚀 New start: Today he is the CEO of Shanghai Fangqing Technology. The startup has received several hundred million RMB from Xiaomi, NIO Capital, and Shanghai Lingang Holdings.
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As CTO, he laid the foundation for Cambricon’s success. In 2025, the company recorded revenue growth of 1,400% and doubled its market cap since July.
Fangqing builds distributed AI compute: workloads are split into context-dependent and -independent tasks and distributed to the most suitable chips — faster, cheaper, and more energy-efficient.
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