As smart terminals race toward agentic AI, more functions run efficiently and safely on device. An agent can run dozens or hundreds of steps from one sentence, or act before you speak by sensing context and memory. That experience rests on the silicon, and the agent trend is pushing chips to evolve: more performance, less … Read more
Picture a robot watering flowers in order, holding the spout a few centimetres above each bloom. Getting that right is easy for people and hard for general AI, and a Chinese team behind RoboTracer argues the problem is how vision models represent space. Why general models get lost in 3D RoboTracer drops XYZ coordinates in … Read more
Zhidx reported on 9 September that Hangzhou three-dimensional compute-in-memory AI chip firm Weina Hexin has closed a RMB 1 billion C1 round and will soon reach scaled commercialisation and mass production, joining the first group of three-dimensional compute-in-memory AI chip companies worldwide to do so. Weina Hexin 3D compute-in-memory AI inference chip. (Source: Zhidx) The … Read more
What compute base does personal AI actually need? As phones start to understand intent, call tools and complete tasks continuously, the platform must support a full personal-AI experience, not one model inference. At Arm Everywhere China 2026, Arm released its latest CSS for Mobile 2, where AI plays two roles in the new phone compute … Read more
Demand for desktop AI compute among professional users is growing exponentially, from local large-model fine-tuning and inference to generative-AI design, data-science mining and 3D simulation modelling. Traditional desktop GPUs are bottlenecked by memory capacity, AI compute throughput and multi-task parallelism, and cannot fit the increasingly complex desktop AI-development and professional-visual-computing scenarios. NVIDIA RTX PRO desktop … Read more
China sits at the pivot from manufacturing giant to smart-manufacturing power, and industrial software, CAE simulation, fluid compute and electromagnetic EDA, is the bridge. Domestic industrial software has advanced fast in algorithms and physics modelling toward self-reliance, yet in aerospace, chip design and energy exploration it hits one core bottleneck: not enough speed, it runs … Read more
Jieluo Intelligent Equipment (Suzhou) recently held a ground-breaking for its headquarters project in Wuzhong district. The site covers 42.5 mu, about 70,000 square metres, with total investment of RMB 1.2 billion, building a headquarters base to make 2,000 rail-free navigation robots (AMRs) and 500 wafer-smart-storage units a year, pitched at RMB 2.5 billion in annual … Read more
Citing people familiar with the matter, Bloomberg reports that DeepSeek plans to deploy at least 160,000 Huawei Ascend 950DT accelerators in a data centre under construction in Ulanqab, Inner Mongolia, one of the largest Huawei AI chip clusters known. DeepSeek and Huawei have not commented. The purpose is clear. The chips will run already-trained models, … Read more
Two announcements landed within hours of each other in early September, and together they frame the next fight in AI: who defines consumer computing once models run on the desk instead of in the cloud. On 1 September Tim Cook stepped down as Apple chief executive to become executive chairman, handing the company to John … Read more
Black Sesame Technologies has delivered the first batch of its Aura Devkit to collaborative robot maker AUBO, the two companies said, deepening a tie that now spans project bids, joint research and commercial supply. Black Sesame Aura compute module from the SesameX embodied-AI platform (Source: Gasgoo) A car chip moves into the robot The Aura … Read more