40% Bitrate Saving at the Same Image Quality: Boya Ruishi Implements AVS3 in End-side Chips

In the video system for urban governance and public safety, a set of underlying technologies that have long been dominated by overseas standards is being replaced. Beijing Boya Ruishi Technology Co., Ltd. starts from the independent AVS audio and video coding standard, brings visual intelligent computing chips to the end side, and has been deployed in scenarios such as water conservancy, ports, and major events. According to public information, the company is currently conducting a new round of financing.

The "digital foundation" of security video and the pressure of localized production

In public safety and urban governance, video surveillance has long been more than a collection tool, but a digital infrastructure that supports the refined management of various industries. It is the audio and video codec technology that supports this system. For a long time, this "digital foundation" has relied on overseas-dominated coding standards, which brings authorization costs, patent risks and data security compliance pressures; at the same time, the improvement of definition brings massive video data, which keeps storage and bandwidth costs rising. From the perspective of Boya Ruishi, whether the codec foundation is independent and controllable directly determines the security boundary and intelligent upper limit of the security system.

From independent standards to end-side chips, and then to benchmark scenarios

Incubated from the National Engineering Research Center of Video and Visual Technology of Peking University, Boya Ruishi is a key scientific research achievement transformation enterprise of Peking University. The company chooses to start with standards and implement chips: it has deeply participated in the formulation of China's independent AVS audio and video coding standard, among which AVS3 has been adopted as an international standard by three international standard organizations including IEEE, DVB and ETSI.

In December 2024, during the 91st meeting of the AVS Working Group, the company released its self-developed end-side visual intelligent computing SoC chip SPARK RE3200, which, according to its statement, is the world's first chip of its kind that supports the new-generation public safety audio and video intelligent coding standard (AVS3-S/SAVIC). This chip supports national cryptographic algorithms, is compatible with national public safety video surveillance standards such as GB35114 and GB/T28181, and integrates CPU, video, audio, security subsystem and AI subsystem based on RISC-V architecture. According to the company, AVS3 can save about 40% of the bit rate compared with H.265 under the same image quality, which means a direct reduction in storage and bandwidth investment. In June 2026, the "half-megabyte high-definition" intelligent surveillance terminal solution equipped with RE3200 passed the GB35114-2017 certification. In terms of product roadmap, the company has self-developed the visual intelligent computing architecture Real-VICA, forming a chip series covering end, edge and cloud; the new-generation end-side chip RE5200 for embodied robots has completed the design, supporting the operation of 7B to 13B large models on the end side.

Whether the technology can be implemented is a more rigid indicator. The company's public information shows that RE3200 has been on the market for sale and has obtained large-scale orders from many listed companies and innovative intelligent agent enterprises; in terms of market promotion, the company has cooperated with leading institutions such as China Institute of Water Resources and Hydropower Research and Shandong Port Group to implement scenarios such as water conservancy monitoring and port intelligence. In January 2026, Boya Ruishi, together with Shandong Port Group, the National Engineering Research Center of Video and Visual Technology of Peking University and other institutions, jointly released the country's first port AI chip "Shangang Zhixin Xingyu SA5200". From the public bidding information, in the past year, the company has successively won bids for projects including Future TV streaming media equipment, maintenance of high-definition network transmission equipment of the national trunk network, intelligent operation and maintenance monitoring center for radio and television transmission of Guangdong Radio and Television Technology Center, TeleBox OEM framework of China Telecom Intelligent Network Technology, and systems related to the 2026 Nagoya Asian Games broadcast of China Radio, Film and Television Program Trading Center.

Earlier accumulation came from ultra-high-definition live broadcast. Since 2020, the company has cooperated with Migu to develop AVS series codec technology, and the related technology has supported the construction of CCTV 8K ultra-high-definition channel, as well as the live broadcast of events such as Beijing Winter Olympics, Hangzhou Asian Games and Paris Olympics; during the 2026 FIFA World Cup in Canada, Mexico and the United States, the AVS standard has realized the full-link commercial use of world-class events.

The team's background and the next stage

Boya Ruishi was founded in 2017 with 57 employees. Dr. Wang Shanshe, the founder and chairman, has long been engaged in the field of video codec. The project "Key Technologies of Visual Perception Codec and Industrial Application of Ultra-High Definition Video" in which he deeply participated won the second prize of 2025 National Science and Technology Progress Award, and the company and its core team also won the first prize of National Technology Invention Award; Han Wei, the co-founder and general manager, has more than 20 years of entrepreneurship and management experience in the audio and video field. The company is now a national-level specialized and sophisticated "little giant" enterprise and a national high-tech enterprise. According to public industrial and commercial information, the company's operating revenue in 2025 was 135 million yuan; public intellectual property information shows that the company has accumulated more than 40 patents and 27 software copyrights.

At the capital level, the company completed the 100-million-yuan Series A financing in April 2024, with the investor being Jiuzhi Capital; according to public information, the company is currently conducting a new round of financing. In June 2026, the company jointly established the "Peking University - Boya Ruishi Visual Intelligent Computing and Embodied Intelligence Innovation Laboratory" with Peking University, extending the cooperation from the video field to embodied intelligence. For this company rooted in standards and chips, how to convert technical advantages into scale revenue during the window period of domestic substitution is the most noteworthy issue in the next step.