The U.S. Commerce Department announced plans to provide up to $389 million in R&D funding to four companies to support power semiconductor devices and critical materials technology R&D. Helion would receive up to $175 million, CFS up to $85 million, Vertical Semiconductor up to $73 million, and Sibelco North America up to $56 million. The funding comes from the $10 billion semiconductor R&D program approved in 2022, and the government will take minority equity stakes in the companies.
NVIDIA held a packed RTX Spark launch experience event at Beijing's JD MALL on the evening of Oct 16, drawing fans and KOLs to experience on-device LLM demos and 3A gaming on thin-and-light laptops, with a lively atmosphere.
On October 13, JD Industrial released an industrial world model at the 26th China International Industry Fair, targeting manufacturing, equipment maintenance, logistics and quality inspection scenarios, and pushing industrial AI from centralized analysis to on-device real-time decision-making.
MSI has opened preorders in China for its flagship AI convertible laptop, the Prestige N16 Flip AI+ 2026, which features Nvidia RTX Spark, up to 128GB unified memory and 1 petaflop of FP4 AI compute. Three configurations are available, along with an early-bird user reward program.
On September 16, JD.com officially launched Qixian Chef, a new business positioned as a "family healthy meal executive," featuring a global-first combination of AI healthy meal planning, a quality prepared-food supply chain, and intelligent cooking robots, with first-batch pre-sales covering cities such as Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and Shenzhen.
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