Canaan Inc. Signs Agreement with HIVE for Avalon A1566 Miners

Continues North American Expansion with Order from Long-term Customer

SINGAPORE, Nov. 11, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Canaan Inc. (NASDAQ: CAN) ("Canaan" or the "Company"), a leading high-performance computing solutions provider, today announced that Canaan Creative Global Pte. Ltd. ("CCG"), a wholly owned Singapore subsidiary of the Company, has entered into a purchase agreement with HIVE Digital Technologies Ltd ("HIVE"), for its Avalon A1566 miners.

According to the purchase agreement, CCG will provide HIVE with 6,500 Avalon A1566 miners, with an average computing power of 185 Terahash per second (TH/s). Of the 6,500 A1566 miners, 500 miners have been immediately delivered and are scheduled for installation. The remaining 6,000 machines will be delivered in four monthly shipments of 1,500 units, from December 2024 through March 2025. 

"We would like to thank HIVE for choosing Canaan's mining solutions for their operations. Securing a significant order is always rewarding, but it is even more gratifying when it comes from HIVE — a long-standing customer and a pioneer in Bitcoin mining. With a highly skilled, global team, HIVE has been able to maximize the utilization rate of its mining sites, resulting in some of the highest Bitcoin production per active hashrate in the industry," said Nangeng Zhang, chairman and CEO of Canaan. "HIVE is an important partner, especially given their commitment to transparency in business and their strong focus on ESG principles. We can all learn from them as a leading player in their field."

The Avalon Miner A1566 is the second generation of 1xJ/T series products released by Canaan. Designed to provide a more dependable mining experience, the A1566 sets a new benchmark in performance with improved power efficiency and is the result of Canaan's ongoing market research and its investment in product development.

About Canaan Inc.

Established in 2013, Canaan Inc. (NASDAQ: CAN), is a technology company focusing on ASIC high-performance computing chip design, chip research and development, computing equipment production, and software services. Canaan has extensive experience in chip design and streamlined production in the ASIC field. In 2013, Canaan's founding team shipped to its customers the world's first batch of mining machines incorporating ASIC technology in bitcoin's history under the brand name Avalon. In 2019, Canaan completed its initial public offering on the Nasdaq Global Market. To learn more about Canaan, please visit https://www.canaan.io/.

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