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The reported agreement was attributed to three people familiar with the transaction. The initial $2 billion investment would give NVIDIA an approximately 20% interest in Lancium, an infrastructure developer backed by Blackstone.
NVIDIA’s reported commitment includes a possible additional investment of $1 billion. That second tranche is conditional on Lancium obtaining more planned power resources rather than being an unconditional, completed financing.
More than 150 U.S. towns and counties reportedly adopted temporary or permanent data-center bans in July alone. Some of the restrictions were approved through emergency meetings and accelerated votes.
Moore Threads (摩尔线程) said its board had approved proposals to issue overseas-listed foreign shares, or H-shares, and seek a listing on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange’s Main Board. This was a board authorization, not a completed offering or an approved Hong Kong listing.
Unitree Robotics (宇树科技) scheduled online and offline subscriptions for its Shanghai Stock Exchange STAR Market offering on August 10. The issue price was set at RMB 150.80 per share, with payment due on August 12.
Apple is reportedly testing memory chips from ChangXin Memory Technologies, or CXMT, across product lines including iPhones and MacBooks. The testing was described as part of efforts to address memory shortages associated with the artificial-intelligence boom.
Samsung Electronics plans to begin production at its advanced semiconductor foundry in Taylor, Texas, by the end of 2026. The source did not specify the process node, customer programs, initial wafer capacity, or production-ramp schedule.
Moore Threads reported that its MTTS5000 intelligent-computing clusters reached scaled sales during the first half of 2026. The clusters had been deployed in Beijing, Wuxi, Hangzhou, and other locations.
Xinshang Micro-Assembly (Xinshang Weizhuang; 芯上微装) said its internally developed AST6200 step-and-repeat projection lithography system passed process validation at a leading domestic compound-semiconductor customer. The source characterizes the system as a 350-nanometer stepper.
ServeTheHome reviewed the WisdPi WP-UT9, an external networking adapter that connects through USB Type-C. The device provides a 10GBASE-T Ethernet interface.
China’s national electricity load reached 1.557 billion kilowatts on August 7, setting a record for the fourth time during the summer. The new peak was approximately 4.8 million kilowatts above the previous record.
The Yanzhao Guyuan Energy Storage Demonstration Project (燕赵沽源储能示范项目) in Hebei reached full-capacity grid connection. The project is located in Xixinying Township, Guyuan County, Zhangjiakou.
South Korea’s maximum electricity demand reached 95.321 gigawatts on August 7, the highest level recorded during 2026 up to that date. The increase was attributed to a continuing heat wave.
POWERCHINA’s 96.9-megawatt Wayra solar project in Peru successfully energized its first 33-kilovolt collector circuit. The equipment operated stably, moving the project into energized commissioning rather than full commercial operation.
China’s first fully domestic 100,000-card artificial-intelligence supercluster entered operation at the Zhengzhou core node of the National Supercomputing Internet (国家超算互联网). The source described this as China’s move into a new stage of 100,000-card computing-infrastructure deployment.
Amazon Web Services is reportedly reviewing internal engineering teams’ use of compute resources and shutting down batches of Elastic Compute Cloud, or EC2, virtual servers previously used for software development. AWS had warned engineering teams in May to control compute consumption so the company could continue meeting customer demand.
China CAMC Engineering (中工国际; Shenzhen Stock Exchange ticker 002051) addressed the status of the data-center business operated by its subsidiary China IPPR. The response was posted on an investor-interaction platform.
MiniMax formally released H3 as an open-source model. Within three days, it reached the top of the popularity ranking on Hugging Face, and more than 100 companies completed “Day-0” integrations.
Alibaba released its new flagship Qwen3.8-Max (千问3.8-Max) model on August 3. The model has 2.4 trillion total parameters and approximately 95 billion activated parameters.
Multiple independent sources reportedly confirmed that Kong Tao, formerly the head of ByteDance’s robotics team, had joined Xiaomi. He now leads Xiaomi’s robotics foundation-model team and reportedly joined during the summer of 2025.
