NextVPU 肇观电子（张江）
Chinese AI chip company developing edge spatial intelligence processors (Feynman series) for robots, drones, AGVs, XR and autonomous devices.
NextVPU (Shanghai) Co., Ltd. is a Chinese fabless semiconductor company founded in 2016 by Alan Feng and headquartered in Shanghai. The company develops AI computer vision processing chips and system-on-chip (SoC) solutions targeting edge computing applications including robotics, autonomous vehicles, advanced driver-assistance systems (ADAS), smart security cameras, and augmented and virtual reality devices. NextVPU employs approximately 300 staff, with more than 80 percent of the team comprising research and development engineers recruited from global technology companies including AMD, Intel, Qualcomm, Marvell, Huawei HiSilicon, and Hikvision.
The company's product lines include the N-series, D-series, and V-series SoC chips. Its flagship N171 chip was announced in 2018 and designed to accelerate computer vision algorithms for ADAS, robotics, smart home, and surveillance applications. Subsequent N1-series chips integrate multi-channel video encoding and decoding, dual-core neural network acceleration, and hardware IP for real-time binocular depth vision, enabling local AI inference at the edge without cloud dependency. NextVPU also released the NE-D163A, a 3D depth calculation and AI acceleration chip designed to serve as the vision system core for robots.
NextVPU has raised a total of more than $84 million USD across multiple funding rounds, including a CNY 200 million Series A in October 2018 and a CNY 300 million Series B in 2020. The company has independently developed AngelEye assistive devices for the visually impaired using its own AI chip technology, demonstrating application breadth beyond industrial robotics. NextVPU's edge SoC chips are positioned to support spatial computing and embodied AI systems that require low-latency, high-accuracy visual perception in compact, power-constrained hardware.
Primary type & automation activities this supplier delivers:
Feynman M1
Active stereo RGB-D depth camera module for mobile robots, integrating dual grayscale cameras, a color camera and IMU with 2.4 TOPS onboard AI compute; outputs 640x480@30fps dense depth via USB 3.0 for obstacle avoidance, SLAM and AI detection.
Contact NextVPU
WEBSITE
https://nextvpu.comPHONE
+86 21 5077 3678HEADQUARTERS
China
Company Facts
Founded
2016
Primary Role
Manufacturer
Company Size
employees 100-500
Primary Region
Asia-Pacific
Annual Sales
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Funding Stage
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Funding Total
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