The combined company will be renamed Canopy Wave Holdings Inc. and expected to trade on Nasdaq under the new ticker symbol "CWAV" — transaction repositions the Company around AI inference infrastructure for open-weight large language models.
SINGAPORE and SANTA CLARA, Calif., Aug. 10, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- SAIHEAT Limited ("SAIHEAT" or the "Company") (NASDAQ:SAIH) today announced that it has entered into a definitive merger agreement, dated August 10, 2026 (the "Merger Agreement"), with Canopy Wave, Inc. ("Canopy Wave"), a Santa Clara, California-based AI inference and GPU cloud platform company. Upon the closing of the transaction, Canopy Wave will become a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Company. The combined company will be renamed "Canopy Wave Holdings Inc." and is expected to trade on the Nasdaq Stock Market ("Nasdaq") under the new ticker symbol "CWAV," subject to required approvals.
The transaction is intended to reposition the Company around AI inference, the delivery of AI model outputs, or "tokens," at production scale, while retaining SAIHEAT's existing data center infrastructure business. The Company's management believes AI inference represents a growing share of AI infrastructure spending, as enterprise adoption shifts investment from one-time model training toward ongoing inference workloads.
Transaction Overview
Under the terms of the Merger Agreement, the merger will be effected through the issuance of new SAIHEAT Class A and Class B ordinary shares to Canopy Wave's shareholders, based on a pre-money equity valuation of Canopy Wave of US$60,000,000 and a pre-money equity valuation of SAIHEAT of US$40,000,000, which amounts represent the result of arm's length negotiation between the parties and are not intended to be, and should not be relied upon as, an appraisal, valuation opinion, or indication of market value. Based on such valuations, transaction will result in former Canopy Wave stockholders owning approximately 54.19% of the combined company's economic interests and 78.44% of the combined company's voting power, taking into account a concurrent private placement planned by the Company of Class A Ordinary Shares for aggregate proceeds of approximately US$4.5 million (representing a purchase price of US$18.15 per share). The transactions have been unanimously approved by the boards of directors of both companies.
The parties expect the transactions to close by the end of 2026. However, the closing of the transaction is subject to customary conditions, including approval by SAIHEAT's shareholders, Nasdaq's approval of the combined company's initial listing application, and satisfaction of conditions to consummation of the concurrent private placement financing.