Title:The world's largest producer of bitcoin mining chips, which is run by a 32-year-old billionaire, is reportedly considering an IPO

Bitmain Technologies, the world's largest producer of mining chips, might be considering an IPO, Bloomberg reports.

据彭博社消息，作为全球最大的矿业芯片生产商，比特大陆公司可能正在考虑进行IPO。

The company, which is run by 32-year-old cryptocurrency billionaire Jihan Wu, has become a global force in the burgeoning cryptocurrency mining industry since it was founded five years ago. In June,  Wu told Bloomberg that Bitmain made $2.5 billion in revenue in the year 2017 alone. Now, the company's success might have Wu considering taking it public.

这家公司由32岁的密码币亿万富翁吴忌寒经管，自5年前成立以来，已经成为新兴的加密货币矿业的全球力量。今年6月，吴忌寒告诉彭博社，比特大陆公司仅在2017年就赚取了25亿美元收入。

Recently, Bitmain has been tinkering with another kind of hardware beyond mining chips. The company has expressed interest in developing custom chips to compute in the field of artificial intelligence, called application-specific integrated circuits.

最近，在ASIC芯片制造之外，该公司表示有意开发定制芯片，用于人工智能领域的计算，被称为特定于应用程序的集成电路。

Wu suggested to Bloomberg that Bitmain's interest in expanding into AI hardware might eventually lead to an initial public offering. The listing, Wu said, would most likely occur overseas; Hong Kong was mentioned as a possible option.

吴忌寒向彭博表示，比特大陆希望扩展到AI硬件，这可能最终导致首次公开发行。吴宇说，这次上市很可能发生在海外；香港被列为可能的选择。

"Bitmain is trying very hard to maintain its advantage," Wu told Bloomberg.

“比特大陆正在努力维护它的优势，”吴忌寒说。

Read  the full story over at Bloomberg here.

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