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Huawei pulls Ascend roadmap forward again

Eleven chips, annual cadence, capacity still short.

Axelera brings Europa into enterprise inference

Two card formats extend local deployment.

Fujitsu Monaka exports AI chips globally

NPU arrives with Monaka-X in 2029.

ADI buys Alif’s AI-native microcontrollers

Sensing and inference converge on one board.

Nvidia explores deal with Rebellions

Korean NPU maker draws interest.

Xiaomi expands XRing into AI silicon

O3 leads broader in-house processor strategy.

Google accelerates TPU cadence for AI

Custom silicon pushes infrastructure beyond GPUs.

Redwood tests AI-designed silicon

Autonomous flow targets physical AI inference.

Iluvatar CoreX turns demand into profit

China’s GPGPU market funds a roadmap.

SambaNova scales dataflow for AI inference

SN50 targets agentic workloads at scale.

HP, Huawei, and Wi-Fi’s patent layer

Cross-license shows standards IP at work.

China’s robot boom outpaces its chip independence

Deployment leads the world; chips still lag.