<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>AI IN LIFE – Chips &amp; Compute</title><link>https://ai-in-life.com/en/topic/chips/</link><description>AI IN LIFE – Chips &amp; Compute</description><language>en</language><item><title>Alibaba Unveils Zhenwu V900 AI Chip in Hangzhou</title><link>https://ai-in-life.com/en/news/alibaba-touts-most-powerful-ai-chip-in-china-for-data/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://ai-in-life.com/en/news/alibaba-touts-most-powerful-ai-chip-in-china-for-data/</guid><description>At the Apsara Conference in Hangzhou, Alibaba showed a chip it rates at three times the previous generation and pledged over 20 gigawatts by 2032.</description><category>MODELS</category><pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2026 10:40:02 +0700</pubDate></item><item><title>Huawei unveils 11 AI chips, aiming at Nvidia</title><link>https://ai-in-life.com/en/news/huawei-debuts-11-ai-related-chips-in-challenge-to-nvidia/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://ai-in-life.com/en/news/huawei-debuts-11-ai-related-chips-in-challenge-to-nvidia/</guid><description>At Huawei Connect on September 17 the company showed more than ten chips for AI data centers, with exports limited by its own capacity crunch.</description><category>CHIPS</category><pubDate>Fri, 18 Sep 2026 10:40:01 +0700</pubDate></item><item><title>Crusoe Raises $3.9B, Valued at $30.9B for AI Compute</title><link>https://ai-in-life.com/en/news/crusoe-raises-3-9b-to-build-massive-data-centers-and-small/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://ai-in-life.com/en/news/crusoe-raises-3-9b-to-build-massive-data-centers-and-small/</guid><description>The Series F values the data center operator at $30.9 billion, with Nvidia among the backers — as a $40 million startup pitches a solar-farm alternative.</description><category>CHIPS</category><pubDate>Fri, 18 Sep 2026 10:40:01 +0700</pubDate></item><item><title>Apple Plans AI Server Built on Its Own M8 Ultra Chips</title><link>https://ai-in-life.com/en/news/apple-reportedly-building-server-packed-with-m-series-ultra/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://ai-in-life.com/en/news/apple-reportedly-building-server-packed-with-m-series-ultra/</guid><description>The Information reports two server variants, with two or four M8 Ultra chips, aimed at inference for developers, companies and governments.</description><category>CHIPS</category><pubDate>Thu, 17 Sep 2026 10:40:02 +0700</pubDate></item><item><title>Perplexity's local agent comes to Windows RTX PCs</title><link>https://ai-in-life.com/en/news/perplexity-portable-computer-is-now-available-on-windows/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://ai-in-life.com/en/news/perplexity-portable-computer-is-now-available-on-windows/</guid><description>The agent now plans and runs multistep tasks on RTX cards with 24 GB of VRAM or more, and work finished locally costs no Perplexity credits.</description><category>CHIPS</category><pubDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2026 00:46:02 +0700</pubDate></item><item><title>Fujitsu to Export Fugaku-Based AI Inference Chips</title><link>https://ai-in-life.com/en/news/fujitsu-to-export-ai-chips-built-on-supercomputer-tech-to/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://ai-in-life.com/en/news/fujitsu-to-export-ai-chips-built-on-supercomputer-tech-to/</guid><description>Nikkei reports the Japanese group will ship inference CPUs derived from its Fugaku supercomputer line to US and Asian buyers from 2027 at the earliest.</description><category>CHIPS</category><pubDate>Sun, 13 Sep 2026 10:40:02 +0700</pubDate></item><item><title>d-Matrix Plugs Raptor XPUs Into NVIDIA NVLink Fusion</title><link>https://ai-in-life.com/en/news/d-matrix-adopts-nvidia-nvlink-fusion-for-rack-scale-xpu/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://ai-in-life.com/en/news/d-matrix-adopts-nvidia-nvlink-fusion-for-rack-scale-xpu/</guid><description>The inference chipmaker wants Raptor accelerators inside NVIDIA's MGX racks. The announcement names no launch date, no specs and no customers.</description><category>CHIPS</category><pubDate>Sat, 12 Sep 2026 10:40:01 +0700</pubDate></item><item><title>Nikkei op-ed: Seoul's AI diplomacy should include Japan</title><link>https://ai-in-life.com/en/news/south-korea-s-ai-diplomacy-needs-japan-in-the-room/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://ai-in-life.com/en/news/south-korea-s-ai-diplomacy-needs-japan-in-the-room/</guid><description>A Nikkei Asia opinion piece urges Seoul to bring Tokyo into its AI diplomacy. The full argument sits behind a paywall we could not read.</description><category>CHIPS</category><pubDate>Fri, 11 Sep 2026 10:40:01 +0700</pubDate></item><item><title>NVIDIA Puts Real-Time AI Into Live Sports Production</title><link>https://ai-in-life.com/en/news/nvidia-brings-real-time-ai-to-broadcast-sports-and-global/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://ai-in-life.com/en/news/nvidia-brings-real-time-ai-to-broadcast-sports-and-global/</guid><description>At IBC in Amsterdam, NVIDIA is showing a deepfake detector rated 99.3 percent accurate, frame interpolation for slow motion and live dubbing.</description><category>CHIPS</category><pubDate>Thu, 10 Sep 2026 10:40:01 +0700</pubDate></item><item><title>Intel Says It Is Already Making Chips on High-NA EUV</title><link>https://ai-in-life.com/en/news/tsmc-intel-and-samsung-all-bet-on-asml-s-latest-chip-tool/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://ai-in-life.com/en/news/tsmc-intel-and-samsung-all-bet-on-asml-s-latest-chip-tool/</guid><description>TSMC will not use ASML's most advanced lithography tool before 2030, Samsung targets 2028 - the same machine, three very different bets.</description><category>CHIPS</category><pubDate>Wed, 09 Sep 2026 10:40:01 +0700</pubDate></item><item><title>Samsung Opens AI Chip Packaging Center in Yokohama</title><link>https://ai-in-life.com/en/news/samsung-opens-japan-ai-chip-r-d-hub-for-advanced-packaging/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://ai-in-life.com/en/news/samsung-opens-japan-ai-chip-r-d-hub-for-advanced-packaging/</guid><description>The memory maker wants closer ties to Japan's adhesive, substrate and packaging-tool suppliers. Size, staffing and cost stay undisclosed.</description><category>CHIPS</category><pubDate>Wed, 09 Sep 2026 10:40:01 +0700</pubDate></item><item><title>Philippines bets $34.4bn on becoming an AI hub</title><link>https://ai-in-life.com/en/news/philippines-unveils-ai-infrastructure-plan-to-forge-niche/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://ai-in-life.com/en/news/philippines-unveils-ai-infrastructure-plan-to-forge-niche/</guid><description>Manila's seven-year masterplan pledges $34.4 billion for AI infrastructure and aims to pull in $21 billion of private money by 2033.</description><category>CHIPS</category><pubDate>Wed, 09 Sep 2026 10:40:01 +0700</pubDate></item><item><title>US to raise AI safety with China at Trump-Xi summit</title><link>https://ai-in-life.com/en/news/us-and-china-eye-trump-xi-talks-on-ai-guardrails-despite/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://ai-in-life.com/en/news/us-and-china-eye-trump-xi-talks-on-ai-guardrails-despite/</guid><description>Sources familiar with the preparations describe a narrow opening for dialogue, one that sits awkwardly beside the two countries' technology rivalry.</description><category>CHIPS</category><pubDate>Tue, 08 Sep 2026 10:40:01 +0700</pubDate></item><item><title>South Korea to merge five state power utilities in 2027</title><link>https://ai-in-life.com/en/news/south-korea-to-combine-5-utilities-to-prepare-for-ai-chip/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://ai-in-life.com/en/news/south-korea-to-combine-5-utilities-to-prepare-for-ai-chip/</guid><description>The plan targets October 2027 and is meant to speed up investment in generation and grids as AI and chip plants pull more electricity.</description><category>CHIPS</category><pubDate>Tue, 08 Sep 2026 10:40:01 +0700</pubDate></item><item><title>ARM's Mali G2 Ultra NX puts AI cores in the GPU</title><link>https://ai-in-life.com/en/news/mali-g2-ultra-nx-ki-rendering-ist-auch-bei-arm-angekommen/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://ai-in-life.com/en/news/mali-g2-ultra-nx-ki-rendering-ist-auch-bei-arm-angekommen/</guid><description>Better graphics, higher frame rates and lower power draw at the same time – ARM's pitch for its next Mali generation rests on dedicated AI cores.</description><category>CHIPS</category><pubDate>Tue, 08 Sep 2026 10:40:01 +0700</pubDate></item><item><title>South Korea limits unions' claim on chip profits</title><link>https://ai-in-life.com/en/news/south-korea-curbs-union-leverage-over-ai-chip-windfalls/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://ai-in-life.com/en/news/south-korea-curbs-union-leverage-over-ai-chip-windfalls/</guid><description>Nikkei Asia reports new South Korean guidelines that free employers from bargaining over AI and chip windfalls; the full text stays paywalled.</description><category>CHIPS</category><pubDate>Sun, 06 Sep 2026 10:40:02 +0700</pubDate></item><item><title>NVIDIA Pools Home PCs to Run AI Agents Locally</title><link>https://ai-in-life.com/en/news/sparks-fly-nvidia-accelerates-local-ai-at-ifa-2026/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://ai-in-life.com/en/news/sparks-fly-nvidia-accelerates-local-ai-at-ifa-2026/</guid><description>A free router tool spreads inference across idle machines on a home network, and Windows PCs with up to 128 GB of unified memory land in October 2026.</description><category>CHIPS</category><pubDate>Sat, 05 Sep 2026 10:40:01 +0700</pubDate></item><item><title>NBA 2K27 Brings DLSS 5 to GeForce NOW's Cloud RTX 5080s</title><link>https://ai-in-life.com/en/news/nba-2k27-with-nvidia-dlss-5-leads-28-new-games-coming-to/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://ai-in-life.com/en/news/nba-2k27-with-nvidia-dlss-5-leads-28-new-games-coming-to/</guid><description>The September lineup runs to 28 titles, but the real news is a rendering feature tied to the Ultimate tier's cloud hardware, not to your own GPU.</description><category>CHIPS</category><pubDate>Sat, 05 Sep 2026 10:40:01 +0700</pubDate></item><item><title>Nvidia to buy Hugging Face for $12.93 billion</title><link>https://ai-in-life.com/en/news/nvidia-to-acquire-hugging-face/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://ai-in-life.com/en/news/nvidia-to-acquire-hugging-face/</guid><description>The chipmaker is buying the hub that hosts three million models, promising other accelerators stay welcome. Closing is planned for the first half of 2027.</description><category>MODELS</category><pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2026 10:40:01 +0700</pubDate></item><item><title>Kioxia pitches NAND flash as a partial DRAM substitute</title><link>https://ai-in-life.com/en/news/kioxia-outlines-plan-to-capture-ai-demand-with-its-new-high/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://ai-in-life.com/en/news/kioxia-outlines-plan-to-capture-ai-demand-with-its-new-high/</guid><description>The company says a CXL module is already with customers for evaluation, but Nikkei's paywalled report leaves the specifications unstated.</description><category>CHIPS</category><pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2026 10:40:01 +0700</pubDate></item></channel></rss>