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- Germany plans broad Nvidia AI partnership with Siemens, Audi and 12 firms
Germany's federal government plans to announce a wide-ranging AI cooperation agreement with Nvidia next week at the Invest in Germany summit in Berlin, with Chancellor Friedrich Merz and Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang expected to present it on Monday, Handelsblatt reported, citing sources (Nvidia confirmed Huang will be in the city; the government has not commented). The deal reportedly involves several hundred million euros, possibly drawn from a research fund, with most of the money paying for computing power on Deutsche Telekom's AI cloud while Nvidia supplies chips and engineers; about a dozen German companies are said to want to take part, including Siemens, Audi and image-generation startup Black Forest Labs. The stated goals are to lay the groundwork for physical AI used to train robots and self-driving cars, and to build high-performance industrial AI models, building on the SOOFI (Sovereign Open Source Foundation Models) effort.
cnBeta · 🔥 21 - NVIDIA launches cuPotential CUDA-X library for AI-defined fabs
At SEMICON West, NVIDIA announced cuPotential, a new CUDA-X library developers can use to build AI agents that simulate how atoms and molecules interact; NVIDIA says early-access testing showed an additional 2–3x speedup on already GPU-optimized materials-simulation workflows, and the library is available in early access. Synopsys is the first adopter, citing a potential 30x speedup with cuEST on QuantumATK and a 12x speedup with cuDSS on S-Device benchmarks. Applied Materials, Cadence, KLA, Lam Research, Siemens and Synopsys are using NVIDIA's accelerated computing, Nemotron open models and CUDA-X libraries across chip design, manufacturing and inspection — for instance, Lam Research intends to integrate the open-source NanoVDB library into SEMulator3D for up to 30x faster wafer-etch modeling, and KLA reports its new NPP NCC kernel runs 50x faster than earlier CPU versions.
NVIDIA Newsroom · 🔥 3 - Siemens backs Skeleton Technologies as AI data center storage unicorn
Estonia's Skeleton Technologies has become the country's latest tech unicorn after raising investment from Siemens AG, according to Bloomberg Technology. The funds are to be used to manufacture energy storage systems for AI data centers in the United States. The report did not disclose the investment amount, valuation or production timeline.
Bloomberg Technology · 🔥 0 - Siemens at 2026 Industry Fair: embodied AI in factories, Eigen update
At the 2026 Industry Fair, Siemens released more than 20 new products, 13 of them locally developed Chinese innovations, and signed cooperation agreements with over 40 Chinese companies. Siemens co-released the Chinese national standard GB/T 47859—2026 on reconfigurable modeling rules for intelligent factory production systems, and opened five China plants and six real production scenarios to ecosystem partners for embodied-AI testing; at its booth a wheeled humanoid robot autonomously moved and handled workpiece picking, simulated loading and return placement under unified scheduling. The Eigen engineering agent, launched in China in July 2026, added standards-compliant automated project-structure generation, which Siemens says can cut program development time by up to 50%, plus multi-axis drive configuration.
钛媒体 · 🔥 0 - Naboo rebrands, claims its AI cuts corporate event costs by 12%
Paris-based Naboo, which books and manages corporate events, announced a rebrand on Tuesday and now pitches itself to procurement and finance teams as well as event organisers. The company says it handles more than $300 million of corporate events a year and that its AI saves clients 12% per event on average, though it did not say how those savings are measured. Naboo says background AI agents handle parts of supplier sourcing, requirements analysis and repetitive admin, and negotiate quotes with suppliers straight away.
The Next Web · 🔥 0 - GlobalFoundries unveils 7nm-class FDX Fusion FD-SOI node for edge AI, production in 2028
GlobalFoundries announced FDX Fusion, a new FD-SOI platform unveiled in Dresden, Germany, claiming 7nm-class digital performance and more than double the logic density of its 22FDX process introduced in 2015, aimed at automotive, industrial, robotics, sensors and edge AI applications that prioritize low power and high integration. The technology combines planar transistors, FD-SOI substrates and back-end interconnect innovations, and supports RF, analog and mixed-signal circuitry, embedded nonvolatile memory and in-memory computing, with processor IP planned for MIPS, ARC and RISC-V architectures. GlobalFoundries plans initial demo silicon in early 2027, a first PDK in mid-2027 and production in Dresden in 2028; BMW, Bosch, Infineon, NXP, Siemens and Tesla expressed interest, though only Infineon confirmed collaboration on future 7nm-class technology for radar and wireless communications.
Tom’s Hardware · 🔥 0 - Mouser to make first appearance at 2026 Shanghai industrial fair
Mouser Electronics announced it will exhibit for the first time at the 2026 Shanghai industrial fair from October 12–16 at booth 1.1H-D145, alongside partners including Amphenol, Bel Group, Texas Instruments and VICOR, highlighting industrial automation products for smart manufacturing, factory automation, industrial robots, predictive maintenance, flexible manufacturing and lights-out factories. Mouser will also show M-bot, its self-developed AI voice-interaction robot that lets visitors query products, stock, pricing and lead times in Chinese and English, and will run a livestream tour with Omron, Schneider Electric and Phoenix Contact on October 13 from 10:30 to 12:00.
InfoQ 中文 AI&大模型 · 🔥 0 - AI data centers hit grid, cooling and interconnect limits
A TechRadar explainer lays out the grid, thermal and interconnect bottlenecks limiting AI data center growth: modern GPU racks now draw 50 to 100 kW per cabinet, while traditional air cooling was not built for densities above 30 to 40 kW, and temperatures of 90 to 100 degrees trigger throttling, with two-phase immersion cooling reported to cut cooling energy by up to 40%. It says electrical copper interconnects lose signal strength beyond two meters and halve their usable reach each time bandwidth requirements double, optical interconnects can cost up to 7x more in some GPU setups, and high-voltage transformer wait times have stretched from 6–12 months in 2020 to two to four years today, with new Northern Virginia facilities facing waits of up to 14 years for a grid connection. The piece also cites responses such as xAI adding 59 portable natural gas turbines with over 400 MW combined capacity for its Colossus data center in Memphis, Siemens partnering with Reinhausen to mass-produce a modular solid-state transformer for AI data centers at 97–99% efficiency, and, per Edison Electric, $208 billion of US grid investment in 2025 plus $1.1 trillion planned from 2025 to 2030.
TechRadar · 🔥 0 - Siemens to debut end-to-end humanoid robot solution at 2026 China Industry Fair
Siemens said it will for the first time show a full end-to-end solution for humanoid robots at the 26th China International Industry Fair, spanning design, manufacturing, final assembly and factory-floor deployment, with a live demo of a wheeled humanoid working with a CNC machine on robot loading/unloading. The company also plans to launch more than 20 new products, open six embodied-intelligence "factory entry" scenarios and upgrade its "Drilling Star Heart 3.0" stack, linking industrial software such as Intelligence Center X and Teamcenter across its five-layer industrial architecture. Siemens will additionally present offerings for data centres, electronics and semiconductors and zero-carbon factories, claiming AI-assisted programming can cut delivery cycles for optical-module assembly projects by about 50%. The article was supplied by Siemens and republished by QbitAI with permission, and is promotional pre-show material.
量子位（原生 RSS） · 🔥 0 - Schneider to buy PTC for $22.6B in bid for the industrial AI digital thread
Schneider Electric announced an all-cash deal to buy US industrial software company PTC at $205 per share, about $22.6 billion, a 42.3% premium to PTC's last close, with closing targeted for Q3 2027 (per the joint announcement). The plan is to link PTC's Creo, Windchill and related product-lifecycle data with Schneider's AVEVA operations data and Cognite's industrial knowledge graph into a single industrial-AI "digital thread"; Schneider shares fell about 9.8% while PTC rose about 33.5%. The article argues China need not copy a closed full-stack model, favoring converging platforms plus specialised segment leaders.
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