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Xiaomi Unveils 3nm Chip Family to Challenge Qualcomm, MediaTek and Nvidia in Smartphones and EVs

Xiaomi launched its Xring O3 flagship mobile processor and D100 intelligent driving chip, both built on 3nm process by TSMC. The $3.1bn investment aims to reduce dependency on Qualcomm, MediaTek and Nvidia while giving the company greater control over its smartphone and EV technology stack.

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Xiaomi Unveils 3nm Chip Family to Challenge Qualcomm, MediaTek and Nvidia in Smartphones and EVs

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UK Ukraine Partnership Unlocks AI Defence Deal With 5 Million Battlefield Images for Security

Britain signed a groundbreaking AI defence partnership with Ukraine, becoming the first international partner to access Avengers AI Labs. The deal grants British researchers access to 5 million annotated battlefield images and data from over 100,000 monthly drone video feeds. AI models trained on this data already identify 70% of enemy targets in real time and will now help protect UK military bases, railways and energy infrastructure.

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UK Ukraine Partnership Unlocks AI Defence Deal With 5 Million Battlefield Images for Security

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Infineon Technologies Acquires C2i Semiconductors to Tackle AI Data Center Power Crunch

German semiconductor giant Infineon Technologies announced the acquisition of Bengaluru-based startup C2i Semiconductors for an undisclosed amount. The strategic move aims to strengthen power solutions for AI data centers struggling with surging electricity demand from high-performance GPUs.

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Infineon Technologies Acquires C2i Semiconductors to Tackle AI Data Center Power Crunch

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SpaceXAI Deploys Nvidia Vera CPUs for Grok's AI Agents and Orbital Data Centers in Space

SpaceXAI has committed to deploying Nvidia's 88-core Vera CPUs to power Grok's agentic AI workloads, becoming the second hyperscaler after Meta to adopt the chip. The company plans to extend this technology into orbit with its Starmind AI satellite launching in Q4 2027, marking a significant step toward space-based AI compute infrastructure.

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SpaceXAI Deploys Nvidia Vera CPUs for Grok's AI Agents and Orbital Data Centers in Space

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RUM Group lands $13.7 billion AI contract but faces funding gap to deliver GPU services

RUM Group, the Trump-linked company hosting Truth Social, secured a $13.7 billion AI infrastructure contract with an unnamed US-based cloud customer for GPU services over six years. However, the company revealed it currently lacks the necessary funds to execute the deal and plans to raise capital through debt or share issuance to build the required infrastructure at its Maysville, Georgia site.

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RUM Group lands $13.7 billion AI contract but faces funding gap to deliver GPU services

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AI Memory Wall Deepens as Compute Outruns HBM Bandwidth by 3x Every Two Years, Micron Warns

Micron reveals that compute performance is outpacing High Bandwidth Memory capabilities by 3x every two years, worsening the AI memory wall. The company disclosed that HBM failures were responsible for 17% of training interruptions during Meta's Llama 3 development, highlighting urgent challenges in scaling AI systems.

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AI Memory Wall Deepens as Compute Outruns HBM Bandwidth by 3x Every Two Years, Micron Warns

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Nvidia revenue tops $96 billion as AI chip demand accelerates and memory commitments reach $160 billion

Nvidia delivered record-breaking Q2 results with $96.2 billion in revenue, up 106% year-over-year, driven by surging AI chip demand. CEO Jensen Huang declared AI has reached its inflection point as the company committed $160 billion to memory procurement and projected 70% revenue growth for fiscal 2028, despite ongoing supply constraints from TSMC and memory chip shortages.

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Nvidia revenue tops $96 billion as AI chip demand accelerates and memory commitments reach $160 billion

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NVIDIA's Groq 3 LPX Achieves 3,400 Tokens/Second, 4x Faster Than Competitors in Agentic AI Push

NVIDIA announced its Groq 3 LPX is in full production, delivering record 3,400 tokens per second in benchmarks—4x faster than nearest alternatives. The AI inference accelerator extends the Vera Rubin platform for ultrafast token generation in agentic AI workloads. Netherlands-based Nebius becomes the first AI cloud to deploy the technology following NVIDIA's $20 billion Groq acquisition.

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NVIDIA's Groq 3 LPX Achieves 3,400 Tokens/Second, 4x Faster Than Competitors in Agentic AI Push

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AI Drone With Nvidia Chip Kills Three Civilians in Ukraine's First Fully Autonomous Strike

A Russian Molniya drone powered by an Nvidia Jetson Orin module killed three civilians at a Zaporizhzhia gas station in July after selecting its final target autonomously. Ukrainian forensic teams confirmed it's the first documented case of civilian deaths caused by a Russian drone using fully autonomous targeting, raising alarm about AI-powered systems making life-or-death decisions without human intervention.

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AI Drone With Nvidia Chip Kills Three Civilians in Ukraine's First Fully Autonomous Strike

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XPeng Robotics Secures $900M to Fast-Track IRON Humanoid Robot Production by End of 2026

XPeng's robotics unit raised over $900 million at a $6.3 billion valuation in what the company calls China's largest single-round private financing in embodied AI. The funding will accelerate mass production of its IRON humanoid robot, targeting 1,000 units monthly by December 2026, as Chinese automakers race against Tesla in the humanoid robotics market.

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XPeng Robotics Secures $900M to Fast-Track IRON Humanoid Robot Production by End of 2026

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IBM Unveils Dual-Architecture Chip Running Arm and Z Instructions at 5.7 GHz on 2nm Process

IBM revealed its first dual-architecture chip at Hot Chips 2026, featuring 11 cores built on 2nm process running at 5.7 GHz base frequency. Each core natively executes both Arm and Z instructions, switching between architectures in nanoseconds. The processor brings Arm's 22 million-developer ecosystem to mainframes while maintaining mission-critical reliability for enterprises.

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IBM Unveils Dual-Architecture Chip Running Arm and Z Instructions at 5.7 GHz on 2nm Process

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STMicroelectronics and National University of Singapore Launch Edge AI Lab to Advance Embodied Intelligence

STMicroelectronics and the National University of Singapore unveiled the ST-NUS HELIX Corporate Lab, a four-year research initiative focused on edge AI technologies. The lab will develop system-to-silicon innovation for generative and embodied AI applications using 18nm FD-SOI technology and embedded Phase Change Memory to address energy efficiency challenges in AI hardware.

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STMicroelectronics and National University of Singapore Launch Edge AI Lab to Advance Embodied Intelligence

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Sonova Unveils Phonak EON: Third-Gen AI-Powered Hearing Aid With 2x Speech Clarity

Sonova launched Phonak EON, its third real-time AI hearing-aid platform featuring the HYPERSONIC processor that cuts power draw by 37%. The device makes speech twice as understandable while being 25% smaller and 20% lighter than previous models. This launch aims to help Sonova meet medium-term growth targets that faced investor skepticism in March.

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Sonova Unveils Phonak EON: Third-Gen AI-Powered Hearing Aid With 2x Speech Clarity

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Nvidia pursues Perplexity investment at $30B valuation as AI search startup triples revenue

Nvidia is reportedly in talks to invest billions in Perplexity AI at a valuation exceeding $30 billion, marking a 50% jump from its $20 billion valuation a year ago. The AI-powered search company has tripled its annualized revenue to $750 million in eight months, driven by growth in AI agent workloads and conversational search capabilities.

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Nvidia pursues Perplexity investment at $30B valuation as AI search startup triples revenue

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Taiwan Indicts Nvidia Manager and 8 Others for Smuggling AI Servers to China

Taiwan indicted nine individuals, including a senior Nvidia manager and two Super Micro employees, for illegally exporting 74 B300 AI servers to China by falsifying documents. Prosecutors are seeking five-year sentences as the scheme exposed critical gaps in compliance programs despite rigorous export controls.

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Taiwan Indicts Nvidia Manager and 8 Others for Smuggling AI Servers to China

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