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ChangXin Memory Technologies (CXMT, 长鑫存储) said it filed suit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia on August 28. The complaint challenges the Department of Defense’s decision to place CXMT on its list of “Chinese military companies,” where it was first named in January 2025.
Canadian Industry Minister Mélanie Joly announced that Canada would recruit 64 scholars and provide more than C$500 million in funding over eight years. The funding will support their work at multiple Canadian universities.
Fourteen centrally administered and state-owned enterprises launched China’s first Data Open Month (数据开放月) during the 2026 China International Big Data Industry Expo in Guiyang. The initiative will make high-value data resources available to the public without charge.
Beijing Zhongke Guoguang Quantum Technology Co., Ltd., referred to as Guoguang Quantum (国光量子), received a new strategic financing round worth tens of millions of yuan. The source did not disclose a more precise amount or valuation.
CXMT announced mass production of its independently developed LPDDR6, or sixth-generation low-power double-data-rate memory. The product is intended for mobile and other power-sensitive computing devices rather than serving as a processor or accelerator.
CXMT’s first mass-produced LPDDR6 memory will be used in Xiaomi’s Xiaomi 18 Fold flagship foldable smartphone. Xiaomi founder Lei Jun said the device would be the first handset to ship with the new CXMT memory.
Cisco Secure AI Factory with NVIDIA is expanding to support integrated rack-scale systems supplied by Supermicro. The addition is specifically intended to address larger-scale artificial-intelligence cluster requirements.
University of Alberta researchers published a technical paper titled “PPAPlace: Differentiable Cross-Stage Objectives for Chip Placement Optimization.” PPA refers to the post-route performance, power and area characteristics of a chip design.
Wuhan Xinxin Semiconductor Manufacturing announced its 10-year Chip Light Plan (芯光计划) at a company development conference in Wuhan’s Optics Valley. General manager Sun Peng presented the program on August 28.
Sungrow (阳光电源) said during an August 28 institutional investor call that its artificial-intelligence data-center energy-storage business had approximately 2 gigawatt-hours of orders on hand. These were described as existing orders rather than a broader prospective pipeline.
Sungrow said it had delivered several solid-state transformers (SSTs) to customers and expected them to enter service during the fourth quarter. An SST is power-conversion equipment, not a conventional server or computing accelerator.
Jereh Group (杰瑞股份), rendered as “Jerry” in the digest, said the contract value of its existing gas-turbine orders exceeded US$2.5 billion. The figure refers to contracted orders, while the additional projections provided by management are forecasts.
International Atomic Energy Agency Director General Rafael Grossi said the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant had been without external electricity for more than one week. Emergency diesel generators were supplying the electricity required for nuclear safety and security functions.
Dagang Oilfield’s underground gas-storage group had injected more than two billion cubic meters of natural gas during the current injection cycle. The sites are operated through Dagang Oilfield’s Tianjin gas-storage business.
A National Data Administration official said China’s aggregate intelligent-computing capacity reached 2.45 million petaflops as of the end of July 2026. The measurement was explicitly stated at FP16, meaning 16-bit floating-point precision.
China’s eight national computing hubs and three computing-and-electricity coordination development zones account for more than 85% of the country’s installed intelligent-computing capacity. The figure was reported by the National Data Administration as of the end of July 2026.
China’s first reported vehicle-mounted Mobile Token Factory (车载移动式词元工厂) was displayed at the 2026 China International Big Data Industry Expo. It uses a standardized 40-foot container with integrated electricity, computing, cooling, storage and networking systems.
Baidu AI Cloud completed a research-and-development organizational adjustment in which Model-as-a-Service and the Qianfan (千帆) brand and related products moved into the Infrastructure Business Group. The former Platform Products Business Group was renamed the Agent Business Group.
Northeastern University researchers published a paper titled “ROBBIN: Rowhammer-Based Backdoor Injection during Inference.” The work presents a hardware-aware attack that incorporates device-specific memory vulnerabilities into neural-network backdoor construction.
OpenAI said it had notified Cursor that it planned to wind down the companies’ contract, with a proposed termination date of November 12, 2026. The decision followed SpaceX’s acquisition of Cursor, an artificial-intelligence coding platform developed by parent company Anysphere.
Kuaishou livestream-business head Zhang Yifan said the platform’s AI livestream assistant had served more than 500,000 creators during its first six months. Average daily calls to the assistant exceeded 180 million.
