Chipchain Technologies Co., Ltd.芯行科技有限公司www.chipchain.net
The company obtained access to the process in 2018.
In 2018 Chipchain obtained access to TSMC's 16 nm FinFET process.
Access to a process gives a design team the foundry's design kit: the rules, device models and libraries a chip is designed against.
The company taped out its first design on the process in November of the same year.
Chipchain is a fabless AI chip company based in Shenzhen and a TSMC direct account. It designs application-specific AI chips, from architecture through tape-out to production.