{"city":"Wuhan","name":"Black Sesame Technologies","slug":"black-sesame-technologies","facts":[{"date":"2026-07-14","type":"ownership_change","value":"Liu Weihong","source":"TipRanks via CNBC"},{"date":"2026-07-14","type":"ownership_change","value":"Shan Jizhang","source":"TipRanks via CNBC"},{"date":"2026-07-14","type":"ownership_change","value":"Acquisition of an AI SoC business","source":"TipRanks via CNBC"},{"date":"2026-07-14","type":"ownership_change","value":"Acquisition of 60 percent of an AI SoC business","source":"TipRanks via CNBC"},{"date":"2026-06-30","type":"partnership","value":"Strategic cooperation with COSCO SHIPPING Holdings and Midea Group for robot terminal scenarios","source":"www1.hkexnews.hk"},{"date":"2026-06-30","type":"deployment","value":"Wudang C1200 cockpit-driving integrated chip deployed in Dongfeng Tianyuan intelligent cockpit platform","source":"www1.hkexnews.hk"}],"peers":[],"stage":"public","state":"Hubei","aliases":["Black Sesame International Holding Limited","黑芝麻智能","BST","Black Sesame"],"country":"China","domains":[{"why":"Black Sesame supplies AI computing and control chips for embodied- AI and robotics applications, including perception and motion-control processors used in robotic systems.","list":null,"rank":null,"tier":"watchlist","layer":null,"total":70,"domain":"Robotics","scores":{"gate_ne":["firepower"],"leverage":8,"position":6,"progress":8,"firepower":6,"commercial":9,"deployment":6,"production":6,"technology":8},"edition":null,"segment":null},{"why":"Black Sesame designs and supplies AI SoCs and automotive computing chips, including perception and motion-control processors, for intelligent vehicles and embodied AI.","list":null,"rank":null,"tier":"watchlist","layer":null,"total":50,"domain":"AI Core","scores":{"gate_ne":["firepower"],"leverage":7,"position":5,"progress":8,"firepower":1,"commercial":9,"deployment":4,"production":9,"technology":3},"edition":null,"segment":null},{"why":null,"list":null,"rank":null,"tier":"watchlist","layer":null,"total":48,"domain":"Humanoids","scores":{"gate_ne":["firepower"],"leverage":7,"position":4,"progress":8,"firepower":1,"commercial":9,"deployment":4,"production":9,"technology":3},"edition":null,"segment":null}],"founded":null,"signals":[{"date":"2026-09-04","header":"Black Sesame Technologies delivered Aura development kits to AUBO ROBOTIS under a multi-layered partnership.","outlet":"Gasgoo autonews"},{"date":"2026-09-04","header":"AUBO ROBOTIS purchased its first batch of Black Sesame Technologies Aura Dev Kits.","outlet":"Gasgoo autonews"},{"date":"2025-10-29","header":"Singapore’s National Robotics Programme established the ELEVATE national sandbox for Open-RMF interoperability.","outlet":"The Robot Report"}],"website":"blacksesame.com.cn","category":"AI Infra · Chips & accelerators","categories":[{"name":"Accelerator design","domain":"AI Core","parent":"AI Infra · Chips & accelerators"},{"name":"Compute & controllers","domain":"Humanoids","parent":"Humanoids · Components"},{"name":"Compute & controllers","domain":"Robotics","parent":"Robotics · Components"}],"last_round":null,"updated_at":"2026-10-04T14:14:56.208305+00:00","facts_total":20,"positioning":"Black Sesame designs automotive-grade computing SoCs: the Huashan series for autonomous driving including the A1000 and A2000, the Wudang series for cross-domain cockpit and driving including the C1200 family, plus the Shanhai toolchain, Hanhai autonomous driving middleware and its own IP cores. It listed on HKEX in August 2024 under the Chapter 18C specialist technology regime. FY2025 revenue rose 73.4 percent to RMB 822 million while net loss widened to RMB 1.4 billion, with operating loss narrowing 17.5 percent. Embodied AI and solutions generated RMB 96 million in its first year as a reported line, the number to watch: the company has secured humanoid robot partnerships using A2000 for perception and C1200 for motion control, and robotics is explicitly framed as a second growth engine. Margin is the soft spot: gross margin on driving assistance products and solutions fell to 20.9 percent in H1 2025 from 47.2 percent a year earlier as the mix shifted toward SoC sales. For 2026 the company targets scaled mass production of the A2000 for L3, expansion into L4 robotaxi and commercial vehicles, and further embodied AI deployments. It licensed Arteris Ncore and FlexNoC in February 2026, and completed a 60 percent acquisition of an AI SoC business in July 2026.","sub_category":"Accelerator design","signals_total":3,"url":"https://www.frontiertechintelligence.com/companies/black-sesame-technologies","title":"Black Sesame Technologies · robotics, Wuhan, Hubei, China · scores, facts and signals · Frontier Tech Intelligence","description":"Black Sesame supplies AI computing and control chips for embodied- AI and robotics applications, including perception and motion-control processors used in robotic systems. Robotics watchlist (score 70) 3 signals and 20 facts with sources.","publisher":"Frontier Tech Intelligence (Future Frontiers, a trade name of Essential Cognition Inc.)","note":"Assessment by Frontier Tech Intelligence; facts and signals carry their sources."}