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NVIDIA agreed to make an initial $2 billion investment in Lancium, a power-infrastructure developer backed by Blackstone. The initial funding would give NVIDIA a 20% stake in the company.
SK hynix is considering options for its Chongqing assets, including bringing in outside investors to support the operation’s growth. The company was reportedly contacting potential advisers to evaluate the business.
Harvey, a startup developing artificial-intelligence products for legal work, was reported to be in financing discussions. The company was seeking to raise at least $500 million.
Unitree Robotics (宇树科技) held its online roadshow for its Shanghai Stock Exchange Science and Technology Innovation Board, or STAR Market, initial public offering on Aug. 7. The offering price was set at 150.80 yuan per share.
Iraqi Oil Minister Basim Mohammed Khudair said Iraq’s oil exports had fallen by 75% because of the closure of the Strait of Hormuz. Before the U.S.-Israel-Iran conflict, Iraq exported approximately 3.4 million barrels of oil per day through the strait.
Longsys (江波龙) announced that it had completed a private placement to designated investors. The company issued 6.6071 million shares at 560 yuan per share.
SanDisk reported fiscal fourth-quarter revenue of $8.97 billion, an increase of 51% from the preceding quarter. The result exceeded the company’s prior revenue guidance of $7.75 billion to $8.25 billion.
The Avatr 07L was officially launched on Aug. 8 and became one of the first vehicles equipped with Huawei Qiankun Intelligent Driving (华为乾崑智驾) ADS 5. The source identifies ADS 5 as an assisted-driving system rather than a general-purpose vehicle computer.
The number of newly established companies in China’s integrated-circuit manufacturing sector increased by 24.2% year over year during the first half of 2026. The figure concerns company registrations, not semiconductor production capacity, wafer starts, capital expenditure, or chip output.
NV Energy, described as Nevada’s largest energy supplier, filed a lawsuit against a developer constructing data centers in the state. The utility accused the developer of attempting to shift electricity-related costs onto other customers.
NV Energy is demanding that the data-center developer initiate $1 billion of grid-upgrade work. The utility warned that if the developer did not bear more infrastructure spending, electricity rates could rise and shift costs to Nevada households and businesses.
Delta’s GoCool-150 is a liquid-to-air coolant distribution unit, or CDU, designed for high-density liquid-cooled computing racks. Its specified heat-dissipation capacity is 150 kilowatts.
A report released by China’s National Energy Administration said the country’s cumulative installed new-energy storage capacity accounts for approximately half of the global total. The source does not provide the underlying capacity in gigawatts or gigawatt-hours.
Hithium’s integrated long-duration energy-storage industrial park in Heze, Shandong, entered mass production on Aug. 7. The milestone was marked by the completion of the facility’s first 1,175 ampere-hour long-duration storage cell.
Firebird, described by NVIDIA as an emerging artificial-intelligence cloud, launched what the source calls the Commonwealth of Independent States region’s largest AI factory. The facility is located in Armenia.
Amazon Web Services asked engineers to reduce waste of central processing unit resources amid tighter compute availability. The reported constraint specifically concerned Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud, or EC2, capacity.
China Telecom and the People’s Government of the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region signed a strategic cooperation agreement on Aug. 7. Compute-infrastructure construction and next-generation communications networks are two of the agreement’s principal areas.
The Jiangsu provincial government and Huawei Technologies signed an expanded strategic cooperation agreement in Nanjing on Aug. 6. The parties agreed to coordinate work on public artificial-intelligence compute centers, urban public cloud infrastructure, and data infrastructure.
Apple’s website showed on Aug. 8 that Apple Intelligence could work with Alibaba Qwen (阿里千问). Qwen is being integrated as an AI capability for Apple users in China across iOS, iPadOS, macOS, and visionOS.
Yonyou Network released an enterprise-AI product and service portfolio covering three areas: Yonyou BIP6 enterprise AI software, an integrated hardware-software product called the Enterprise AI Box, and AI Business as a Service, or AIBaaS. Chairman Wang Wenjing said the company was accelerating its transformation and that enterprise AI represented a rapidly increasing share of its business.
Reports said WeChat (微信) was conducting limited testing of two Moments features described as AI-assisted writing and AI commenting. Tencent customer service said AI-related functions were still being opened progressively.
