Tan Shuai 谭帅

Work

Twenty years across the stack: advanced-process silicon, hardware platforms, system software, and the AI products that run on top of them.

Roles

  • Chipchain Technologies — Co-Founder & CEO
  • MicroBT (WhatsMiner) — Founding Member & Director
  • Zeeis Technologies — Founder & President
  • Vimicro (NASDAQ: VIMC) — R&D Manager
  • Q-Net Technologies (OTCBB: QNNT) — Principal Engineer

Selected silicon

  • WhatsMiner Bitcoin mining ASIC — MicroBT
  • 8-Series ARM926EJ-S mobile multimedia SoC — Vimicro
  • Mobile audio processors — Vimicro
  • Mobile video and camera processors — Vimicro

Patents

20 granted patents in the United States and China — 18 authored, 2 developed under my leadership — covering chip architecture, storage and file systems, firmware update, and communication protocols. Two of them:

  • Device for transmitting data and method for the same — US 7,441,077 B2, granted 21 October 2008, assigned to Vimicro. Google Patents
  • Method and apparatus for accelerating file system operation by using a coprocessor — CN 100389420 C. Google Patents

Recognition

  • Member of the Xingguang team awarded the National Science and Technology Progress Award, First Prize.
  • Certified Entrepreneurship Mentor and Lecturer, ByteDance Group / Toutiao Creator Space (2020).

Writing about the work