Tech Industry
DeepSeek plans to order 160,000 Huawei chips for new center
DeepSeek plans to order at least 160,000 Huawei Ascend 950DT chips for a new Inner Mongolia data center, using them for inference while still training on Nvidia hardware.
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New & Next
Acer's 799 g Swift Blade 14 trades processor power for weight
Acer's Swift Blade 14 weighs 799 grams and reaches Europe in December 2026. The trade-off is Intel's low-power Wildcat Lake silicon and 12 GB of memory.
Startup Watch
a16z lifts its fifth Growth fund to $8.5B and adds an AI hardware fund
Andreessen Horowitz said on August 31, 2026 that it added $1.75 billion to its fifth Growth fund, taking it to $8.5 billion. A separate $1.1B fund targets AI hardware.
AI & LLMs
Nvidia's DLSS 5 ships this week for RTX 50 cards at a 50-60% cost
Nvidia's DLSS 5 arrives this week with NBA 2K27, limited to RTX 50 cards. Reports put the performance cost at 50 to 60 percent, inverting what DLSS was for.
Dev Stack
New Mac mini and Mac Studio put more memory bandwidth behind local AI
Apple announced new Mac mini and Mac Studio models on August 25, 2026, shipping September 22. For local model work, the memory ceiling matters more than the AI multipliers.
Tech Industry
Tim Cook ends 15 years as Apple CEO; John Ternus takes over
August 31, 2026 is Tim Cook's last day running Apple. John Ternus, who has led hardware engineering, becomes chief executive on September 1, 2026.
AI & LLMs
OpenAI says its Jalapeño chip beats Nvidia's GB300 per watt
OpenAI's first published Jalapeño benchmarks claim 1.5 to 1.9 times more work per kilowatt than Nvidia's GB300, at half the power. The numbers are OpenAI's own.
Tech Industry
Nvidia posts $96.2B quarter and guides to $108B for Q3
Nvidia reported $96.2 billion in revenue, up 106% in a year, with data centre sales at $89 billion. Its own release guides to $108 billion for this quarter.
New & Next
The OLED Xbox Ally X20 lands at $1,299 as handhelds get pricier
Pre-orders opened for the first OLED ROG Xbox Ally at $1,299, a $300 rise over the Ally X - and it is now the cheapest of the premium Windows handhelds.
AI & LLMs
Nvidia's Groq 3 LPX inference chip enters full production
Nvidia put its dedicated inference accelerator into full production, splitting agent workloads so GPUs handle context and the new chips handle token generation.
New & Next
iPhone 18 Pro Max may get a camera the smaller Pro can't fit
A leaker says the iPhone 18 Pro Max alone gets a variable-aperture main camera, because the mechanism needs more room than the smaller Pro's chassis has.
Tech Industry
Marvell hands Google a $12.2B stock option to build its custom chips
Marvell gave Google a warrant to buy up to $12.2B in stock, vesting as Google buys custom silicon - a deal worth ~$120B through fiscal 2033 that widens the TPU supply base beyond Broadcom.
New & Next
Google launches Pixel 11 line with Tensor G6, starting at $899
Google announced the Pixel 11, 11 Pro, Pro XL, and Pro Fold on August 12 with the Tensor G6 chip, 256GB base storage, and prices from $899. All ship August 20.
New & Next
Apple splits the iPhone 18 launch: Pro this fall, the rest in 2027
Apple will reportedly split the iPhone 18 launch for the first time since iPhone 11: Pro and foldable models arrive this September, the standard 18 waits for 2027.
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