[1][2] The company was founded in 2019 by Lingjie Xu and others, all of whom were previously employed at NVIDIA or Alibaba or ST.[3] Biren has advertised two general-purpose graphics processing units (GPGPUs), the BR100 and BR104.

[6] In an apparent effort to get around a stipulation of the U.S. sanctions, Biren reportedly modified their BR100 GPU to be able to process less data, so that it would not qualify for restriction for its manufacturer, TSMC.

[7][8] After its sanction in October 2022, the company secured a 280 million USD pledge from Guangzhou government-backed investors.

[9] In September 2024, the company hired an investment bank to begin its IPO tutoring process.

[10] In October 2023, the United States Department of Commerce added Biren Technology to the Bureau of Industry and Security's Entity List.