Canaan, Inc. designs and sells integrated circuits. It offers Kendryte AI and Avalon Miner products. The firm is a developer of supercomputing chips and the manufacturer of digital block chain computing equipment as well as the supplier of overall scheme for computer software and hardware of digital block chain. The company was founded by Li Jiaxuan, Liu Xiangfu and Zhang Nangeng in 2013 and is headquartered in Hangzhou, China.