Nano Labs Enters into Agreements with Shareholders to Convert Loans into Ordinary Shares

HANGZHOU, China, Sept. 6, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Nano Labs Ltd (Nasdaq: NA) ("we," "the Company," or "Nano Labs"), a leading fabless integrated circuit design company and product solution provider in China, announced today that it entered into agreements with Mr. Jianping Kong, its chairman and chief executive officer, and Mr. Qifeng Sun, its vice chairman, along with their respective affiliates (the "Lenders") on September 5, 2023, to convert the interest-free loans from the Lenders in an aggregated amount of US$10 million (the "Loans") into certain amount of Class A ordinary shares (the "Conversion") in lieu of repayment of the Loans.

As previously announced on July 28, 2023, the Company entered into agreements with the Lenders for the Loans to fund the Company's research and development initiatives directed towards the advancement of ASIC chips, smart-NICs, and vision computing chips. According to the subscription agreement entered into among the Company and the Lenders, a total of 19,157,087 Class A ordinary shares of the Company will be issued to the Lenders at a per share price of US$0.522 (or US$1.044 per ADS), being the average closing price over the previous 10 trading days as of September 5, 2023. Upon the closing of the Conversion, the Company will be released from any future liabilities or obligations under the terms of the Loans.

About Nano Labs Ltd

Nano Labs Ltd is a leading fabless integrated circuit ("IC") design company and product solution provider in China. Nano Labs is committed to the development of high throughput computing ("HTC") chips, high performance computing ("HPC") chips, distributed computing and storage solutions, smart network interface cards ("NICs") vision computing chips and distributed rendering. Nano Labs has built a comprehensive flow processing unit ("FPU") architecture which offers solution that integrates the features of both HTC and HPC. Nano Lab's Cuckoo series are one of the first near-memory HTC chips available in the market with a maximum bandwidth of approximately 2.27 Tbps, as well as one of the first movers of the ASIC-based Grin mining market *. For more information, please visit the Company's website at: https://ir.nano.cn/. 

*According to an industry report prepared by Frost & Sullivan.

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