The Belt

Qianhe Yibang raises 2 billion yuan for 3D memory chips

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Qianhe Yibang, a pioneer in 3D compute-in-memory chips, has closed a Series B of over 2 billion yuan. The round gathered a heavyweight mix of state capital and financial investors, including the national structural-adjustment fund, China Mobile’s chain-leader fund, Sequoia-sister vehicles, Hillhouse-linked and other first-tier institutions. NetEase Youdao and China Mobile’s chain-leader fund, long-term shareholders … Read more

Sunzhan: the RISC-V chip-design Copilot

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Sunzhan, founded in 2022 and still around twenty people, builds custom RISC-V processor cores (CPU, DSP, NPU) for domain-specific architectures. Founder Zeng Yi argues that AI has moved the decision over chip architecture out of the chip company and into the AI company: the model now dictates the silicon, and RISC-V’s freedom to add custom … Read more

Apple and Alibaba co-train China AI model

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Reuters reports that Apple is training a China-specific large language model with Alibaba, which supplies compute and localisation support. The model is trained independently for the China market rather than translated from an overseas version, a notable shift in Apple’s China AI strategy. Apple and Alibaba are reported to be co-training a China-specific model. (Source: … Read more

CVPR 2026 makes 3DGS robot infrastructure

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At CVPR 2026 the 3D Gaussian Splatting field stopped chasing prettier renders and started chasing industry. Across eight representative papers, the work closes the pipeline from feed-forward, second-scale generation to GPU-operator rebuilds, noise-robust SLAM and Neural ODE physics, turning 3DGS from a 3D photo album into the physical base of embodied AI and world models. … Read more

China’s first automotive-chip certification standards

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China has published the world’s first national-level capability-evaluation system covering the full automotive-chip chain. The State Administration for Market Regulation, through the certification and accreditation body CNCA, approved and released five certification and accreditation industry standards that build a structured framework for assessing institutions across the automotive semiconductor sector. China releases the first certification standards … Read more