On 23 September, the Qinghai project information network published the bid result for phase one of the Kunlun Lingyi intelligent computing centre project. Shanghai GPU leader Biren Technology won package one with a bid of RMB 174 million. Biren landed a RMB 174 million compute centre order as reven (Source: Zhidx) The phase-one project issued … Read more
On 17 September D-Robotics, also known as D-Robot and spun out of Horizon Robotics, closed a 400 million dollar Series C. Mirae Asset led the round, with Meituan Strategic Investment, Hefei State Investment, Nanshan Strategic Emerging Industry Investment, Jingquan Capital and Cathay Capital among the followers, while more than twenty existing backers including Hillhouse, 5Y … Read more
Hangzhou Puxi Guangjing Semiconductor has closed a several-hundred-million-yuan Series C, 36Kr has learned. The round drew ten new state-owned and industrial-capital backers, among them Zhejiang Jiahe Changyue, Chengdu Innovation Venture Capital, the Shanghai Semiconductor Equipment and Materials Industry Investment Fund, Shandong Caijin and Guizhou Guochuang. The proceeds will fund the next generation of gallium-oxide power … Read more
On 17 September D-Robotics, known as Dagu Robot, closed a $400 million Series C. Mirae Asset led the round, with Meituan Strategic Investment and institutions including Hefei Guotou, Nanshan Venture Capital, Jingquan Capital and Cathay Capital following on. More than twenty existing shareholders, among them Hillhouse, 5Y Capital, Temasek’s Vertex Growth and Aramco’s Prosperity7, added … Read more
On 24 September, according to Fox News, the chiefs of the two leading AI firms warned the United Nations Security Council that fast-moving AI could threaten humanity unless governments and companies keep it under human control. The session came during rising worry about ever more capable systems. Anthropic chief executive Dario Amodei said AI holds … Read more
On 22 September in US time, Anthropic released Claude Opus 5.5, and about ninety minutes later OpenAI launched GPT-6 Sol and GPT-6 Luna. Both made low price the selling point. GPT-6 Sol cut input and output tokens per million to 2 dollars and 10 dollars, half the prior GPT-5.6 Sol, and OpenAI called it a … Read more
At the Snapdragon Summit 2026 in Maui on 22 September, Qualcomm unveiled two flagship mobile chips built on a 2-nanometre process, the sixth-generation Snapdragon 8 Super Elite and the sixth-generation Snapdragon 8 Elite. This is the first time the flagship line has shipped two Elite platforms at once and the first use of 2-nanometre in … Read more
On 23 September the Chinese lab DeepSeek made public a paper bearing founder Liang Wenfeng among its more than 130 authors, submitted on 19 September. The paper gives the first full technical account of DSec, short for DeepSeek Elastic Compute, the sandbox platform that trains AI agents at scale. DSec first appeared in the DeepSeek … Read more
Changsha Chixin Semiconductor Technology has closed an A+ round of more than 200 million yuan, a new high for a single financing in the physical-AI spatial-perception chip track. The round was led by Shanghai Yanpu Precision Technology Group, with Hunan Jinxia Shengshi Equity Fund, Shanghai Quectel Communications and Changsha Lushan Investment Holding Group joining. The … Read more
18 September 2026. TrendForce’s second-quarter 2026 global Fabless TOP 10 shows the top ten combined revenue of US$141.45 billion, up 73 per cent year on year. The 73 per cent climb is eye-catching but only a total. The more telling question is who grew, by how much and where. The reshuffle shows up clearly. TrendForce’s … Read more