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By Takashi Mochizuki

December 17, 2025 at 12:05 PM UTC

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Welcome to Tech In Depth, our daily newsletter about the business of tech from Bloomberg’s journalists around the world. Today, Takashi Mochizuki addresses the

MetaX’s explosive debut: The latest Chinese AI chip design startup to go public, Shanghai’s MetaX, jumped as much as 755% after raising nearly $600 million in its IPO. It made former AMD engineer Chen Weiliang, MetaX’s founder, a billionaire.