Huawei’s AI Chips Lack Differentiation And Face Global Market Penetration Hurdles, But A Focus On Glass Substrates Could Ignite Its Fortunes

China’s AI chip market is dominated by Huawei , but that’s mainly due to NVIDIA’s lack of presence in the region, not due to the company’s technological prowess. However, a new report states that the former Chinese smartphone giant plans to adopt glass substrates much sooner, making it a global player that could challenge other entities and slowly tilt the leadership race towards China.

A report from ETNews claims that Huawei is working with its domestic supply chain and has drawn a roadmap to begin glass substrate


Intel Nova Lake-S APU With 12 Xe3P Cores Will Reportedly Require 65W For Full Performance

One of the Nova Lake SKUs with a specific configuration will operate at up to 65W to unlock full performance.

The Intel Nova Lake family will be quite comprehensive when it comes to the configuration. The Nova Lake S desktop processors will particularly include a wide range of SKUs, featuring models with up to 52 cores. This will reportedly lead to a massive 474W of PL2 power on the flagship SKU , but one should expect the majority of the SKUs to fall under 65W, 1


GTA 6 Silence Sparks Delay Fears, but Trusted Insider Shreds the Panic Ahead of November Release, Teasing Big August Showing

Although Rockstar Games promised that GTA 6 marketing would ramp up during the summer, we're now close to August and both the developer and publisher Take-Two Interactive are keeping a rather tight lid on one of the most anticipated games of all time launching on November 19 on PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S . For some, this radio silence could be a sign of bad news, but it seems like worrying isn't warranted at all, as well-known insider Nate The Hate suggested that we


Unreal Engine 5 Made Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Possible, Yet It Makes A Nintendo Switch 2 Port A Big Challenge

Since its launch in 2022, Unreal Engine 5 has been one of the most controversial game engines from Epic Games , mostly due to how demanding it is on PlayStation 5 , Xbox Series X , and PC , as well as the performance issues it brings. Although the engine has been significantly improved since , public perception hasn't changed much, with many gamers considering it one of the worst things to happen to modern gaming. However, many developers don't share this sentiment, as Sandfall Interactive ,


Tim Schafer Sheds a Quarter of Double Fine’s Newly Independent Team After Keeper and Kiln Flopped Under Xbox

San Francisco-based developer Double Fine Productions announced yesterday that it had to lay off 23 employees in the wake of its newfound independence from Xbox . Founder Tim Schafer said in a statement:

Today, Double Fine Productions let go of 23 members of our staff. As a small, tightly-knit team, these actions are not taken lightly. Only the survival of our studio would ever make us consider such a painful action. Our transition to becoming an independent company also means becoming a size that we can sustain

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WUCHANG: Fallen Feathers Sequel Rises From a Collapsed Team, as Digital Bros Reunites With the Director Who Walked Away

A sequel to WUCHANG: Fallen Feathers is actually happening. You might remember that Chinese developer Leenzee lost its core team after Game Director Xia Siyuan left. Well, 505 Games ' parent company, Digital Bros , acquired the IP a while ago , and today they have announced the new project in partnership with Indolphinity , a new studio founded by Xia Siyuan.

Raffi Galante , Co-CEO and Co-Founder of Digital Bros group with his brother Rami , said in a statement:

We strongly believe in WUCHANG as

A character from the game Wuchang: Fallen Feathers holding a sword, with the text 'Thank you to our 5 Million Players.'
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CAPCOM Shares Skyrocket (+20%) Following Excellent Quarterly Report as Executive All But Confirms PRAGMATA 2

Following yesterday's excellent quarterly earnings report , CAPCOM shares are literally skyrocketing on the stock market at nearly +20% , with a single share now valued at ¥4,229.00 ($25.86), not too far from the all-time record of ¥4,865.00 set right after the launch of Resident Evil 4 remake in 2023 .

The main driver was apparently the overall game sales number registered in Q1:

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US FCC Blacklists Foreign Robots on Huawei List as Surveillance Fears Grow – Striking NVIDIA Partner Unitree As Well

In a major development, the US government has banned imports of certain foreign-made robots and power equipment to protect the ongoing AI infrastructure buildout in America. The restrictions were unveiled by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) through an update to its Covered List. The Covered List is a list of equipment that first emerged to cover and restrict Huawei's equipment from being used in the US due to espionage risks. FCC bans foreign-made humanoid robots over surveillance fears, striking NVIDIA partner Unitree the hardest

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SK hynix Went All In On HBM, And Paid For It With A Bruising Miss On Consensus Expectations For Q2’26

Things are about to get very ugly for at least one of the so-called 'Big Three' memory players, as SK hynix has just reported a bruising miss on consensus expectations, courtesy of its heavy tilt towards AI-centric HBM.


OpenAI Finds That Systems From AMD’s Helios Partner, Cerebras, Are “Incredible” At Inference Tasks, Showing That AMD Chose Wisely

AMD appears to have chosen its partner quite wisely to bolster the Helios rack-scale system's inferencing capabilities, with an OpenAI researcher recently singing what is nothing short a paean in favor of Cerebras' Wafer-Scale Engine.

As we explained in a dedicated post recently, Helios is AMD's first full-stack rack-level solution for AI workloads, consisting of:

  1. AMD Instinct MI455X GPUs
  2. 6th Gen AMD EPYC CPUs
  3. AMD Pensando AI Network Interface Cards (NICs)
  4. AMD Pensando DPU
  5. AMD