
After losing 4.9 billion yuan in three years, the 68-year-old founder of BOE went back to the IPO and bet on the future of chips
Source | Pencil Dao Author | Editor Song Wei | Zou Wei Original title | 68 years old, BOE founder broke into another IPO: lost 4.9 billion dollars in three years, fought for chips again. In 2019, 62-year-old Wang Dongsheng stepped down from BOE. BOE, which he founded with his own hands, is already the absolute leader in China's display industry. Outsiders thought that the “father of China's semiconductor display industry” would retire, but he turned around and stepped into a new racetrack — chips. “The screen is almost done, so you can do the core too. “My friend's words ignited his passion for starting a business for the second time. Five years later, on May 30, 2025, Easway Computing submitted its first statement to the Hong Kong Stock Exchange. Half a year later, on January 30, 2026, the second submission was invalid again. On July 31, 2026, 68-year-old Wang Dongsheng stood at the entrance of the Hong Kong Stock Exchange for the third time with an Easway calculation. Wang Dongsheng gave a speech at the BOE Global Innovation Partners Conference Source: BOE - 01 - The “Father of Chinese LCD”'s second venture in 1993, Wang Dongsheng led employees to raise their own 6.5 million yuan seed fund to carry out a shareholding system reform of the Beijing Electronic Tube Factory, which had been losing money continuously for seven years, and founded the predecessor of BOE. More than 20 years later, BOE became the world's largest display panel company, completely solving the problem of “fewer screens” in China. The ZTE incident in 2018 stung the entire Chinese semiconductor industry. Upstream wafer production capacity is scarce, chip prices have soared, and China's semiconductor industry has been hit hard. Wang Dongsheng realized that the “screen” problem has been solved, and the “core” problem is far from there. In September 2019, Wang Dongsheng participated in the establishment of Easway Computing. He quickly formed an “all-star team”: Wang Bo, the former product director of Intel, was invited as vice chairman, and He Ning, a former senior chief engineer of Qualcomm, as CTO. The company focuses on the two core application scenarios of smart terminals and embodied intelligence, and adopted a next-generation RISC-V computing architecture. Easway Computing has locked a breakthrough in RISC-V open source architecture—a new racetrack that could break the monopoly of ARM and x86. The open source architecture requires no licensing fees and can greatly reduce chip design costs; the modular nature is particularly suitable for fragmented scenarios in the AIoT era. Against the backdrop of the intensification of the Sino-US technology game, RISC-V has become a strategic channel for China to break through the chip architecture blockade. Easway Computing RISC-V chip product source: Easway's official website - 02 - Revenue is rising, losses are being received, but it is still losing money. Easway Computing is a chip product provider based on the RISC-V architecture. It uses a fabless (fabless) business model to outsource all chip manufacturing, packaging and testing to a third party. Based on the 2025 revenue calculation, Easway Computing is the largest domestic smart terminal human-computer interaction chip product provider in China, with a market share of 5.7%; at the same time, it ranks third in the domestic RISC-V main control chip product market in China, with a market share of 1.2%. The financial data disclosed in the prospectus shows the company's trajectory over the past few years. Revenue is rising. $1,752 billion in 2023, $2,025 billion in 2024, and $2,431 billion in 2025, with a three-year compound growth rate of 19.4%. Revenue for the first quarter of 2026 was 494 million yuan, up 18.4% year-on-year. Losses are narrowing. Net loss of $1,837 billion in 2023, $1,547 billion in 2024, and $1,516 billion in 2025. A cumulative net loss of 4.9 billion yuan over three years. Net loss for the first quarter of 2026 was 375 million yuan. Gross profit margins are improving. Gross profit margin 15.4% in 2023, 18.0% in 2024, 18.6% in 2025. The first quarter of 2026 was 14.8%, a slight decline. The company explained that the first quarter was affected by seasonal factors. Semiconductor wafer source: The source of encyclopedia's losses is research and development. R&D expenditure of $1,445 billion (82.5% of revenue) in 2023, $1,337 billion (66.0% of revenue) in 2024, and $1,042 billion (42.8% of revenue) in 2025. According to the prospectus data, the cumulative R&D investment for the three years from 2022 to 2024 exceeds 4.2 billion yuan. By the end of 2024, the R&D team had more than 1,200 people, accounting for more than 70% of the total number of employees. With this kind of strong investment, there is no possibility of profit in the short term. As of March 31, 2026, the company held approximately $1.3 billion in cash and cash equivalents. According to the current rate of burning money, how long this money can last is...








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