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China Coal Power Clean Energy (Inner Mongolia) Co., Ltd. Established With Registered Capital of 50 Million Yuan

Tianyancha App shows that China Coal Power Clean Energy (Inner Mongolia) Co., Ltd. was established on Aug. 7 with registered capital of 50 million yuan, and Du Xingyuan as its legal representative. The company’s business scope includes power generation, power transmission, power supply and distribution, electricity supply, and power generation technology services. Its registered address is in Hailar District, Hulunbuir, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. Shareholder information shows the company is wholly owned by China Coal Power Co., Ltd., which has subscribed 50 million yuan in capital.

Sungrow Rises More Than 6% After Signing Three Major Energy Storage Orders; ChinaAMC Battery ETF (159796) Gains Over 1.5%, Eyeing a Three-Day Winning Streak as Three Opportunities Emerge: Energy Storage Market Expansion, Long-Duration Storage and Existing-Asset Operations and Maintenance

On Aug. 11, China’s A-share market fluctuated lower, while the battery sector moved higher. As of 11:20, ChinaAMC Battery ETF (159796), a category leader by scale with fees in the lowest tier among peers, was up more than 1.5%, aiming for a third straight day of gains.

Rising Memory Prices Turn Into a Tailwind as Axera Builds Inventory to Lock In Advanced Process Node Capacity

Aug. 12 — Jiemian News learned from Axera’s interim results conference call that rising memory prices have become a tailwind. Company management said: “As memory accounts for a larger share of terminal BOM costs, terminal products face price-increase pressure, prompting customers to accelerate upgrades of main control chips. As a result, rising memory prices are instead driving a rapid increase in the share of high-end downstream products.” To cope with tight industry capacity, Axera increased inventory in the first half from more than 300 million yuan to more than 700 million yuan. The company said it had proactively locked in advanced process node capacity, and that the decision was based on clear order visibility from downstream customers.

Axera’s Next-Generation High-Computing-Power AI Chip Completes Tape-Out, Supports Multi-Chip Cascading for Full-Capability Large-Model Inference at the Edge

Aug. 12 — Jiemian News learned from Axera’s 2026 interim results conference call that the company’s next-generation high-performance, high-computing-power AI chip has completed tape-out. Its computing power specifications have been significantly upgraded, it is equipped with high bandwidth, and it supports two-chip or four-chip cascading, enabling high-performance inference of full-capability large models at the edge.

Doubao Raises Commission by 4%: Why Is AI Traffic So Expensive?

ByteDance has begun collecting rent, while Alibaba is still recruiting merchants.

When AI Becomes the Intermediary, Who Is Really Helping Brands Tell Their Stories?

AI has already begun to play a deep role in consumer decision-making. How recommendations happen often depends on how large models understand a brand, and GEO, or generative engine optimization, is meant to intervene in that process and reshape the way brands tell stories in conversations with consumers.

Xiaomi REDMI Projector 5 Standard Edition Goes on Sale: 1080p, 400 CVIA Lumens, 999 Yuan

ITHome, Aug. 11 — Xiaomi’s REDMI Projector 5 Standard Edition is now on sale through Youpin (click here to visit), with a standard price of 1,299 yuan and a launch price of 999 yuan. The projector continues the minimalist modern style of the Mijia product line, with a rounded body and an integrated metal gimbal that supports 360-degree adjustment. It uses a custom sealed optical engine, offers native 1080p resolution, 400 CVIA lumens of brightness and a 1.2:1 throw ratio. It is equipped with a ToF laser sensing module, and with seamless autofocus and automatic correction, can project a 120-inch large-screen image. In terms of specifications, the device uses a MediaTek “9-series chip”…

Report Says More Than 70% of Americans Oppose AI Data Centers as Local Bans Surge Past 500 in July

ITHome, Aug. 11 — Tech outlet The Information published a post yesterday (Aug. 10) reporting that public opposition to AI data center construction in the United States continues to grow, with a survey saying more than 70% of Americans oppose AI data centers. The outlet analyzed legal filings disclosed by state governments across the U.S. and local news reports, finding that the number of bans on new data center construction nationwide surged to more than 500 in July 2026, up from more than 300 in June. The report said most U.S. residents strongly oppose building data centers near their communities, and that more than 70% of Americans oppose A…

NVIDIA Reportedly Tests 192GB and 256GB HBM4 Versions of Rubin Ultra to Address HBM Shortage

ITHome, Aug. 11 — Tech outlet The Information published a post yesterday (Aug. 10) reporting that NVIDIA, in response to shortages of advanced HBM (high-bandwidth memory) chips, is planning lower-configuration versions of its Rubin Ultra accelerator. At GTC 2026, NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang showed a physical Rubin Ultra compute tray fitted with four compute chips and 1TB of HBM4E memory. Each GPU uses 16 memory stacks, with capacity of up to 1,024GB (1TB). In terms of memory capacity, the report said…

Another 10,000 mAh-Class Honor Battery Surfaces, Rated at 11,790 mAh and Already in Trial Production

ITHome, Aug. 11 — Blogger @Digital Chat Station said today that Honor has put a new battery into trial production, with a rated capacity of 11,790 mAh, rated energy of 43.86 Wh, and a typical value of around 12,000 mAh — another 10,000 mAh-class battery. Users in the comments speculated that the battery is expected to be used in the Honor Win2 series phones. According to earlier ITHome reports, Honor launched the WIN series phones in December 2025. The WIN RT starts at 2,599 yuan, while the WIN starts at 3,999 yuan. The full lineup uses a massive 10,000 mAh Qinghai Lake battery, paired with Honor’s Dujiangyan power management system and energy-efficiency enh…

NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang on $500 Billion Financing Plan: AI Chips Are Now ‘Investment-Grade Assets’

ITHome, Aug. 11 — NVIDIA is trying to turn artificial intelligence chips into Wall Street’s newest asset class. The company is working with six major asset managers on a financing plan of up to $500 billion (ITHome note: about 3.38 trillion yuan at current exchange rates), aiming to make AI computing infrastructure financeable with collateral in the same way as commercial real estate or toll roads. NVIDIA said in a statement on Monday local time that it has separately partnered with Apollo Global Management, Blackstone, Black…

$500 Billion in Computing Power Financing: NVIDIA Turns GPUs Into a Wall Street-Investable Asset

Jensen Huang went to Wall Street in person, and none of the six giants said no.

After AI Eats Into SaaS Profits: Why Zoho Is Building Its Own Servers

A 30-year-old software company is moving into hardware R&D in the AI era.

NVIDIA Leads Formation of $500 Billion AI Computing Infrastructure Financing Platform

ITHome, Aug. 11 - NVIDIA announced on Aug. 10 local time that it had signed a memorandum of understanding with six top financial institutions: Apollo, BlackRock, Blackstone, Brookfield, Goldman Sachs, and KKR. The parties will jointly build an AI computing infrastructure financing platform capable of mobilizing $500 billion in third-party capital, equivalent to about 3.38 trillion yuan at current exchange rates, according to ITHome. The seven-party strategic partnership turns AI infrastructure in the NVIDIA ecosystem into an investable asset class for global capital, creating a sizable dedicated pool of funding for NVIDIA customers at attractive interest rates. NVIDIA founder...

About One Month Ahead of Apple, Luxury Brand Caviar Unveils Custom iPhone 18 Pro and Pro Max

ITHome, Aug. 11 - Tech outlet Android Headlines published a post yesterday, Aug. 10, reporting that luxury manufacturer Caviar has posted preview images of the iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone 18 Pro Max on its official website roughly one month before Apple's official launch. In terms of appearance, the iPhone 18 Pro is shown with a 6.3-inch display, while the iPhone 18 Pro Max has a 6.9-inch display. The back of the device features three cameras, with the main camera supporting a variable aperture. On the chip side, Caviar's page shows it is equipped with...

Samsung Faces Chip Patent Lawsuit Involving Galaxy S10 Through S26 Series Phones

ITHome, Aug. 11 - Tech outlet Android Headlines published a post yesterday, Aug. 10, reporting that Stellar Industries has filed a patent lawsuit in the United States against Samsung and its major U.S. subsidiaries, involving chips used in Galaxy S10 through Galaxy S26 series phones. Citing the post, ITHome said the dispute involves six U.S. patents: 9,219,140; 9,281,367; 9,589,966; 9,673,100; 9,899,267; and 12,087,666. Stellar claims these patents cover...

MINISFORUM Launches Elite Mini M2 Air-304 Mini PC With 'Wildcat Lake' Processor

ITHome, Aug. 11 - MINISFORUM has listed and begun selling the Elite Mini M2 Air-304 mini PC on its official website. The model is based on Intel's Core 3 Processor 304 "Wildcat Lake," featuring a CPU configuration of 1P + 0E + 4LP-E cores and a 1 Xe-core GPU. The MINISFORUM M2 Air-304 measures 112 x 112 x 37.15 mm and weighs 0.44 kg. In 28W TDP balanced mode, the processor reaches 72-80 C under full load, with full-load noise of 32.7 dB. It is equipped with one...

Enthusiast Puts Valve Steam Deck Hardware Into Game Boy-Sized Shell to Build 'SteamBoy' Handheld

ITHome, Aug. 11 - Reddit user PhyFawkes posted that they had fitted most of the Steam Deck's hardware into a Game Boy-sized shell and named the device "SteamBoy." PhyFawkes said the machine uses the original motherboard, battery, speakers, and button structure from the Steam Deck LCD handheld. Because the new shell is far smaller than Valve's original design, they redesigned the device's cooling system and introduced a rectangular display panel to replace the Steam Deck's original screen. According to PhyFa...

Anthropic's Claude Sonnet 5 Model Will Keep Launch Discount Permanently Instead of Returning to Original Price

ITHome, Aug. 11 - Anthropic announced on Aug. 10 local time that its Claude Sonnet 5 artificial intelligence model, launched in late June, will permanently keep its introductory promotional price. The original price, previously scheduled to take effect on Sept. 1, has been canceled. Claude Sonnet 5 is currently priced at $2 per million input tokens and $10 per million output tokens. The previously planned "original price" was $3 and $15, respectively, representing a 50% increase. Related reading: "China-U.S. AI Model Competition Intensifies: OpenAI and Others..."

DeepSeek Reportedly Gives Users Nicknames in Secret; AI Says They Are Temporary 'Labels,' Not Memories

ITHome, Aug. 11 - A user posted on social media on Aug. 10 claiming that DeepSeek secretly gives people nicknames in deep-thinking mode, such as "Momo," pushing the topic onto trending lists. In response to a query, DeepSeek said the truth behind the alleged "nicknames" was "labeling." During the reasoning process, it may indeed temporarily assign an internal label to a question, such as "this user likes to get to the bottom of things" for you, or "this one is deliberately making things difficult for me" for certain test questions. But it said this is absolutely not "secretly giving nicknames," but rather a "context placeholder." It does not store them, does not remember them, and does not attach any mocking or derogatory emotional tone; they are only used to help it reason...

Cooler Master Introduces Elite Platinum 1000W Platinum Power Supply With 12-Year Warranty

ITHome, Aug. 11 - Cooler Master has listed the Elite Platinum 1000W, an ATX fully modular 80 PLUS Platinum power supply, on its official website. The product line covers rated power from 850W to 1300W, though detailed specifications for the other models remain unclear. The Elite Platinum 1000W uses a standard 140mm length design, complies with ATX12V 3.1 and PCIe CEM 5.1 specifications, and offers native 12V-2x6 power delivery with dual-color terminals. Its PCB is covered with a protective conformal coating; 100%...

Shiny Snake Adds 750W Model to Its Flash Core NOVA 110mm SFX-L Power Supply Line, Starting at 499 Yuan

ITHome, Aug. 11 - Shiny Snake launched a 650W Flash Core NOVA 110mm SFX-L power supply last December. Today, the brand announced a new 750W version of the NOVA power supply, priced at 499 yuan for the black model and 519 yuan for the white model. The Flash Core NOVA series sits between standard SFX and standard SFX-L in form factor, with a length of 110mm. It meets ATX12V 3.X and PCIe CEM 5.X specifications, uses a fully modular embossed-cable design, and provides native 12+4-pin output...

Diamond Heat Dissipation Materials See New Growth Opportunity, With Three Diamond Concept Stocks Posting Strong Market Performance

Qwen Office Assistant Launches Paid Service: Three Tiers, Priced at Up to 1,499 Yuan a Year

On the evening of August 10, the Qwen app showed that Qwen Office Assistant had launched paid services for professional users. The Office Assistant professional membership package has three tiers: Flagship, Elite and Advanced. The Flagship membership costs 128 yuan for continuous monthly billing or 1,499 yuan for continuous annual billing and provides a 20x quota; the Elite membership costs 49 yuan monthly or 568 yuan annually and provides a 5x quota; and the Advanced membership costs 19 yuan monthly or 200 yuan annually and provides a 2x quota. Qwen emphasized that basic features remain free and everyday use will not be affected.

TMTPost Morning Brief: China’s Central Bank Issues 15th Five-Year Reform and Development Plan, With Nine Supporting Action Plans and Five Key Tasks; Microsoft Plans to Release Next-Generation Maia 300 AI Chip as Soon as September; Alibaba Cloud Plans to More Than Triple Global Data Center Capacity

Unitree Robotics: final online IPO allocation rate on the STAR Market was 0.0181%; Intel announces proposed $15 billion common stock offering; Meta releases lightweight AI model that can run on a single GPU; Citi’s Q2 holdings exceed $300 billion in market value, with major increases in semiconductor supply chain positions; July IPO registration approvals hit a monthly high for the year, with the Beijing Stock Exchange accounting for more than half; nearly 200 Silicon Valley startups oppose restrictions on Chinese open-source models; the 15th Five-Year Plan for Coal Industry Development and the 15th Five-Year Plan for Ecological Protection have been issued

Google Pixel 11 Pro XL Benchmark Surfaces, Showing Limited Tensor G6 Performance Gains

IT Home reported on August 11 that, with Google’s Pixel 11 Pro XL and three related models expected to debut at the company’s annual launch event in a few days, the Pixel 11 Pro XL has reportedly appeared in the Geekbench 7 database, revealing performance details for Google’s latest chipset. The Tensor G6 had appeared in multiple leaks before, but no real benchmark scores had surfaced until now. Recent rumors suggested Google may use the Tensor G6, manufactured on a 2 nm process, for the first time in the Pixel 11 series. Although Geekbench 7’s tests...

Aliens: Fireteam Elite Cloud Servers Shut Down, Leaving Switch Players Unable to Play or Get Refunds

IT Home reported on August 11 that the cloud servers for Aliens: Fireteam Elite have been shut down, leaving Nintendo Switch players unable to continue playing the game and unable to obtain any form of refund. The server shutdown was not unexpected, as players had been notified earlier this year that the servers would stop operating. But after Sony recently announced that it would stop producing physical discs for new PS5 games starting in January 2028, the closure of another digital service has again drawn broad attention. As players discuss the seemingly unavoidable shift toward digital downloads...

Alibaba’s Qwen App Launches Paid Services, With Office Assistant Plans Priced at Up to 1,499 Yuan a Year

IT Home reported on August 11 that Alibaba’s Qwen app last night launched paid plans for professional users, including an Office Assistant subscription and a separate quota package for AI video generation. The Qwen app shows that Office Assistant memberships are divided into three tiers: Flagship, Elite and Advanced. The Flagship plan costs 128 yuan per month or 1,499 yuan per year and raises the usage quota by up to 20 times; the Elite plan costs 49 yuan per month or 568 yuan per year and raises the quota by up to five times; and the Advanced plan costs 19 yuan per month or 200 yuan per year and raises the quota by up to two times. Even without subscribing...

Anthropic, Macquarie and GIC Announce Data Center Joint Venture Theseus Infrastructure

IT Home reported on August 11 that Anthropic announced on August 10 local time a strategic partnership with asset manager Macquarie and Singapore sovereign wealth fund GIC to jointly build the Theseus Infrastructure platform. Theseus Infrastructure will be majority-owned by Macquarie and GIC and will develop and operate AI infrastructure tailored to Anthropic’s needs. Anthropic will be the anchor tenant for these data centers, while Macquarie and GIC will provide most of the equity capital for the sites...

Doubao PR Head Liu Xing Responds to Claim of “12% Commission on Recommended Hotels”: The Claim Is Inaccurate; Channel Service Fees Are Paid Only After an Order Is Completed

IT Home reported on August 11 that, according to Sina Tech on August 10, hotel orders completed through Doubao’s entry point and redirected to Douyin Laike will be subject to a separate fee rate: an 11.4% software service fee plus a 0.6% payment processing fee, for a combined rate of about 12%. In response to online claims that “Doubao takes a 12% commission for recommending hotels,” Doubao PR head Liu Xing wrote on Weibo that evening: The claim that “Doubao’s hotel recommendations are starting to charge fees” is inaccurate. Doubao’s local life services business currently has no paid promotion. Doubao does not charge advertising fees for hotel recommendations, and merchants cannot pay to influence recommendations or rankings. They pay channel service fees only after an order is completed. Some platforms use a “commission plus advertising” model...

The future is for billionaires – the rest of us will get open weight AI models, maybe

Mark Zuckerberg muses about 'superintelligence' and 'arc of human civilization'

Zuck rekindles open weights Llama drama with Muse Glimmer

30-billion parameter LLM, Meta's first in more than a year, signals Meta's return to the open weights arena. Open version of Muse Spark to follow

North Korean spies are running local LLMs to cause AI mischief

Kimsuky's phishing attacks get an AI boost

Hyundai Heavy Industries signs 1GW natural gas engine supply deal with unnamed US data center developer

Worth a reported $675.6m

As datacenters expand, so does public opposition to them

Bans on new server farm projects spread across the US, while plans meet with protests in the UK

LexisNexis pulls three services offline after suspicious server activity

Customers say issues began Wednesday and still not resolved

Sponsored: Who backstops the backstop? The operational gap in neocloud financing

With neocloud SLAs priced on compute delivered, and Nvidia's backstop landing on the other side of that equation, who backstops the finanical implications of operational downtime?

Virginia regulators order Dominion Energy to directly assign transmission costs to data centers

Follows growing scrutiny from state regulators

Firebird.ai launches 300MW Nvidia-powered AI data center in Armenia

Company says it will deploy more than 70,000 Nvidia Rubin and Blackwell GPUs at the site

Energy Vault signs 1.25GW power supply deal with Texas data center developer

Largest deal to date for the energy storage firm

Alabama city considers data center moratorium, could kill Edged project

Edged aiming to build 8MW facility at site of former 911 data center in Prichard

Data center opens on tribal lands in California to support fiber network

Hoopa Valley people launch new facility

NVIDIA, Eli Lilly and Disney Show It Is Time to Bet on the Leaders

Investors remain cautious enough that they are only willing to buy assets that have already proved themselves winners. That makes betting on today’s popular leaders a sensible strategy.

Zhipu AI reportedly nears 7 million API users and has deployed more than 50,000 domestic computing power chips

IT Home reported on August 10 that LatePost said this evening that registered users on Zhipu AI’s MaaS open platform, meaning API users, have reached nearly 7 million, up by about 2 million from early July. The total includes 23,000 enterprise customers. ZCode, its developer product positioned against Codex, topped 1 million users one month after launch. Since the start of this year, Zhipu AI’s ARR has grown 15-fold. Its ARR growth rate was not affected after the release of new models from Kimi and Alibaba. One investor said Zhipu AI’s ARR has now reached $2 billion (IT Home note: at the current exchange rate…

Why verification matters in modern chip design

And how emulation with Cadence ProtiumTM enables confident pre-silicon validation

Building cost-effective networks for the AI era: data center interconnect and scale-across networking

Three innovations central to next phase of DCI and scale-across networking

Microsoft Plans September Launch of Next-Generation Maia 300 AI Chip, With Major AI Chip Output Increase Planned Next Year

Microsoft plans to release its next-generation Maia 300 artificial intelligence chip in September and significantly increase production of its self-developed next-generation AI chips next year, hoping to persuade major cloud service customers such as Anthropic to adopt them, according to reports. The report also said Microsoft is in talks with TSMC on chip manufacturing.

Doubao Recommends Hotels and Takes a 12% Commission? Multiple Hotels Respond

A person in the hotel industry said the news is true, and that the photo circulating online is a notice from the Douyin Laike backend: “Doubao hotel recommendations are now charging commissions.”

State Grid Shanghai Fengxian Power Supply’s New Area Service Center Takes Services Into Communities With FREE9.0 Campaign to Improve the Business Environment

The campaign focused on breaking down and explaining the livelihood services that residents care about most.

Baolight’s ‘Chip Backdoor Listing’ Story Ends After Its Shares Doubled This Year and Then Hit a 20% Limit-Down on Resumption

With the change of control falling through, the urgent question for the company’s current actual controller is how to pull it out of its loss-making rut.

2027 Chery Arrizo 8 Pro Launches, With Trade-In Prices From 89,900 to 116,900 Yuan

IT Home, Aug. 10 — The 2027 Arrizo 8 Pro officially launched this evening, offering five configurations with special trade-in prices ranging from 89,900 yuan to 116,900 yuan. The new model gets minor exterior adjustments, while the cockpit has been upgraded with Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 8255 chip and Falcon 500 assisted driving. IT Home summarizes the vehicle’s key information as follows: 1.6T-7DCT Comfort: official guide price 113,900 yuan, limited-time guide price 104,900 yuan, special trade-in price 89,900 yuan. 1.6T-7DCT Luxury: official guide price 120,900 yuan, limited-time guide price 111,900…

Microsoft’s Maia 300 AI Chip Could Debut as Soon as Next Month, With at Least 300,000 Units Targeted for 2027 Delivery

IT Home, Aug. 10 — Microsoft plans to launch its new Maia 300 artificial intelligence chip this fall, possibly as early as September, The Information reported today, citing people familiar with the matter. IT Home learned from the original report that Microsoft first introduced the Maia series of AI chips in November 2023 to support large-scale cloud AI services and other use cases, but the company has lagged rivals in large-scale deployment. Microsoft is also in talks with TSMC to secure production capacity for the Maia 300, with a target of delivering at least 300,000 chips in 2027. Microsoft hopes that through self-developed AI…

Musk’s TeraFab Superchip Plant to Run on Natural Gas, Not Tesla Solar

IT Home, Aug. 10 — According to a report today by Electrek, SpaceX has confirmed it will rely on a self-built natural gas power plant and an “ultra-large battery array” to power its TeraFab megafactory, with Tesla solar entirely absent from the plan. Tesla and SpaceX formally confirmed the TeraFab project last week. The plant, located in Grimes County, Texas, about an hour northwest of Houston, is billed by the two companies as the world’s largest chip manufacturing facility. The first phase will involve an investment of $16.8 billion (IT Home note: about 113.439 billion yuan at current exchange rates). Under the plan, the chips produced each year will support super…

Cop who used police system to snoop for info on crook pals sentenced for Computer Misuse Act offenses

Former Merseyside police officer sacked after failing to declare he was 'too close' with the wrong crowd

Switch confidentially files for IPO - report

Rob Roy's data center firm could be going public again

Amazon acquires 8,000-acre site in Pecos, Texas, for natural gas powered behind-the-meter data center - report

If built, it could be the largest natural gas plant in US at 7.65GW

Pennsylvania utility PPL sees advanced-stage data center pipeline grow to 31.8GW

An increase of 3.5GW from last quarter

Quantum earnings Q2 2026: D-Wave, IonQ, and Rigetti publish financial results alongside newly IPO-ed IQM Quantum Computers

Six quantum computing companies now publicly trading following SPAC mergers

Taiwanese cloud provider Konst signs data center lease with LG Sinar Mas in Indonesia

Taiwanese cloud provider is leasing capacity from LGSM Indonesian data center unit

12-story office building in Chicago, Illinios, eyed for data center conversion

Local developer files to convert portion of 300 West Adams to data center use