Canaan

Canaan, Inc. is a holding company, which engages in developing and selling Bitcoin mining machines and related services. The firm is a fabless IC designer engaged in the front-end and back-end of IC design. The firm primarily offers its technology and expertise in ASIC applications to Bitcoin mining machines and is also a producer of Bitcoin mining machines in the global market. The Company, through its subsidiaries, independently designs and develops its products in-house, including the design of proprietary ASIC chips for its Bitcoin mining machines. The company has in-house production capabilities to assemble both Bitcoin mining machines and artificial intelligence (AI) chips. The company assembles its Bitcoin mining machines primarily at its assembly plant located in the People’s Republic of China (PRC) by integrating the ICs designed by the Company and related components it procures. The company also intends to engage in Bitcoin mining through self-owned facilities.