Jan 30 (Reuters) - Chinese artificial intelligence chipmaker Axera Semiconductor is aiming to raise HK$2.96 billion ($379.2 million) in an initial public offering in ​Hong Kong, a regulatory filing showed on Friday. Founded in 2019, Axera is a fabless chip designer focused on AI inference system-on-chips used in on-device computing, edge inference and smart vehicles, the prospectus said. Axera said it was the largest provider ⁠of mid-to-high-end visual on-device AI inference chips ​globally by shipments in 2024, citing research firm ​China Insights Industry Consultancy (CIC) in the filing. For the first nine months of 2025, its revenue rose 5.8% to 269.0 million yuan ($38.7 ‍million) from 254.2 million ⁠yuan a year earlier, while net loss widened to 855.7 million yuan from 691.0 million yuan, the filing showed. ($1 = 7.8053 Hong Kong dollars)($1 = 6.9480 Chinese yuan renminbi)(Reporting by ‌Kumar Tanishk in Bengaluru and Yantoultra Ngui in Singapore; Editing ‌by Pooja Desai and Varun H K)