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AI news tagged Chips and hardware, with sources.
Microsoft opened pre-orders on October 7 for the $5,999 Surface RTX Spark Dev Box, built on Nvidia’s RTX Spark superchip, with shipping starting in November.
AI chip startup Etched is reviewing investment offers that value it at $40 billion to $50 billion, about double its August valuation, TechCrunch reported.
Synopsys and OpenAI announced on September 30 a multi-year partnership to develop GPT-Synopsys, a model meant to run chip design tools like an expert engineer.
Figure melted its old F.02 robots in a 75-ton electric arc furnace in Finland. The robots leapt in using their own AI models; the idea came from Schwarzenegger.
Strata, an open-source (MIT-licensed) engine, runs Alibaba’s Qwen3.8-Flash-Next, released in August, on an ordinary gaming PC.
On September 24, Perplexity brought Portable Computer, the on-device version of its Computer agent platform, to Windows PCs with AMD Ryzen AI Max processors.
Qualcomm will keep licensing its cellular patents to Apple under a new deal taking effect on April 1, 2027; duration and financial terms were not disclosed.
Alibaba CEO Eddie Wu announced plans for models of 5 to 10 trillion parameters and unveiled T-Head’s Zhenwu V900 chip at the Apsara conference in Hangzhou.
MVP, the first Project Suncatcher satellite, launches on SpaceX’s Transporter-18 mission; cooling limits its TPUs to bursts of roughly 15 minutes.
In Apple’s demonstration, four M5 Ultra Mac Studios clustered with RDMA over Thunderbolt ran a trillion-parameter model while drawing power from one outlet.
Android-based Googlebook laptops opened for preorder; the five models from Acer, ASUS, Dell, HP and Lenovo include 12 months of Google AI Pro and start at $899.
Frank Heemskerk, who runs ASML’s global public affairs, said Europe is not investing and no chip plants are being built there.
Shopify founder Tobi Lütke posted on X on September 18 that he had given the glassed-in wine cellar in his Toronto house over to a server rack.
Cal AI founder Zach Yadegari’s Persona is a 27-gram screenless wristband for an AI agent, on preorder for $179 ahead of December 2026 shipping.
Huawei moved the Ascend 960DT up to the first quarter of 2027, while Eric Xu admitted it cannot build enough AI computing equipment to meet demand in China.
According to Reuters, SK Hynix is weighing a lease at Intel’s planned Ohio plant or a joint venture; the company said no plans have been confirmed.
Cody Ho and Niklas Sheth reverse-engineered the hardware under a hypervisor to build an OpenGL ES 3.0 compliant driver, with Codex doing most of the systematic debugging.
Chinese GPU maker Biren is sounding out investors for a new share sale worth roughly $1 billion. The company listed in Hong Kong in January.
Amodei’s 3,800-word essay argues that democracies should keep their lead, with chip curbs on China and a block on training rivals on American model outputs.
On August 5, Anthropic confirmed publicly for the first time that it’s building an in-house team to design custom chips for Claude.