Netforward

Based in Shenzhen, China and founded in 2015, Shenzhen Nanfei Microelectronics Co. , Ltd, trading as Netforward, is a network communication chip research and development company. In January 2026, Netforward raised over 1 billion in series C funding. The company’s main business is the R&D, production, sales, and service of integrated circuits for data center interconnect, network communication, and intelligent IoT.

The company’s self-developed products include the GROOT series of general Ethernet switching chips, the NEBULA Galaxy series of data center converged network chipsets, and the GALAXY-1 high-speed interconnect chip series. Its products are used in the fields of HPC, routing, switching, and IoT. The company generates revenue by providing integrated circuit products and associated services, as well as system-level solutions for network communication and data center interconnect. The series C funds from this round of financing will be primarily used to further increase R&D investment, vigorously promote technological breakthroughs in next-generation AI interconnected chips, concentrate efforts on overcoming key core technology bottlenecks, supplement the company's working capital, provide solid support for upgrading team capabilities, and accelerate the efficient closed-loop of "technology-product-market.