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A year of prototype testing inside Nissan’s European technical centre has turned into a production decision, and it changes how fast the carmaker can find the cause of a software fault. Nissan Technical Centre Europe is extending the Sonatus Fastlane platform across its pre-production validation process, after cutting the time engineers need to trace a … Read more
Four years of supplier scouting in China have produced a shortlist Renault now wants to convert into global contracts. Speaking in Shanghai on 23 October, Renault Group China chairman and chief executive Su Weiming said the French carmaker has examined more than 400 Chinese companies and is studying how to fold local tier-one and tier-two … Read more
Bosch will move its German mobility business into a separate limited liability company, the group said on 22 October, a structural change that leaves Europe’s largest car supplier answering to a shorter chain of command while its margins keep thinning. Bosch is carving its German mobility operations into a wholly owned subsidiary. Source: Gasgoo The … Read more
Astralive has closed a seed round and a seed-plus round, both in the tens of millions of RMB. The company is a spin-out of Tsinghua University’s computer science department, and what it sells is unusual: it does not build robots and it does not train foundation models. Astralive’s stack runs from first-person capture through processing … Read more
UBTech has signed a strategic cooperation memorandum with the international relations office of the Ras Al Khaimah government in the United Arab Emirates. The framework covers humanoid research, real-world testing and system deployment, with an explicit focus on adapting the technology to Gulf conditions. UBTech will send engineering teams to Ras Al Khaimah to run … Read more
Huixi Intelligent has closed a Pre-B+ round and a B round, lifting its equity funding for 2026 past RMB 2.5 billion. The Beijing chip designer said the round drew national and local industry funds alongside industrial capital and market investors. Huixi’s compute platform is designed for embodied AI workloads rather than automotive or data-centre chips. … Read more
On 19 October the Ministry of Commerce published a joint opinion from nine ministries on accelerating technology-driven commerce. The document is dated 13 October, runs to eighteen measures, and carries the reference Shang Jian Han 2026 number 551. This is not a single-ministry circular. Commerce, the Cyberspace Administration, the National Development and Reform Commission, the … Read more
AI data centres keep demanding more DRAM capacity and bandwidth, and memory makers are pushing harder on the next shrink path. Two of them have just chosen opposite directions in the same week. CXMT, China’s largest DRAM maker, had just announced a breakthrough in the 4F-squared architecture, with products expected before the end of 2026. … Read more
Tesla closed a $30 billion package of new loans and credit facilities on 29 September, earmarked for Full Self-Driving, the Cybercab robotaxi, Optimus humanoid production and AI compute infrastructure. Most coverage stopped at the number. The detail that matters sits in a single word: undrawn. Not a dollar has been pulled. Tesla has said it … Read more
Jensen Huang walked onto the stage at the Tempodrom in Berlin on 21 October and did not announce a new chip. Vera Rubin, already public, was confirmed as being in full production. The substance of the keynote was three operational problems: how to build compute capacity faster, how to control increasingly capable agents, and how … Read more