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1. 14h
   Chinese GPU makers race on supernodes as buyers weigh cost and ecosystem

   At the 26th China International Industry Expo, where the integrated-circuit zone debuted as a standalone exhibition, domestic GPU vendors focused on rack-scale "supernodes": MetaX showed its 64-GPU fully interconnected Xijing S600 plus a 16-GPU S600 Lite, Enflame showed the Yunsui ESL64-O built with ZTE, and Iluvatar CoreX packed 144 GPUs and 18 CPUs into one 44U rack, saying the TianGai 300 IXL144 reaches 100-nanosecond single-hop latency and a 15% effective bandwidth gain in certain MoE All-to-All scenarios (all vendor claims). Citing an IDC report via Reuters, the article says China's data-center AI accelerator shipments reached 2.008 million units in the first half of 2026, with Nvidia at 678,000 (34%) and Huawei at 572,000 (28%), while China GPU shipments fell 26% year on year to 991,000 units and other AI accelerator types rose nearly 80% to 1.016 million. The report argues that beyond performance and price, stable supply, software ecosystem maturity and the ability to bring real customers and revenue to compute centers will shape commercialization, with vendors ultimately answering how to lower customers' total cost of ownership.

   36氪 人工智能 · 🔥 7
2. 19h
   Chinese LLM makers push into AI hardware to grab entry points and revenue

   On Oct 13, StepFun chairman Yin Qi unveiled the STEPX Neo agent phone in Shanghai, while Alibaba's Qwen released two AI glasses and an AI headset in Hangzhou the same day, with both events showcasing AI capabilities. Earlier, ByteDance and ZTE's Nubia NaviX Ultra — better known as the "Doubao phone" — went on sale Sept 16 with over 360,000 reservations on JD.com, and Tencent's WorkBuddy open platform launched Sept 2 in Shenzhen with nine co-branded hardware devices spanning glasses, earbuds, recording cards and speakers. A former executive at a leading Chinese LLM company is quoted saying the push is mainly about capturing entry points, since users show little loyalty to models, and that selling devices is another monetization path; listed Zhipu spent 2.131 billion yuan on R&D in the first half, about 2.2x revenue, while MiniMax spent US$297 million, roughly 2.5x revenue, with both loss-making. The report notes no LLM company has disclosed accurate AI hardware sales figures, and hands-on tests found weak real-time translation accuracy and an AI phone that failed to complete a takeout order in several minutes.

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3. 2d
   Zhongxingwei launches China's first PCIe 6.0 switch and 800G AI NIC

   Chinese interconnect chip maker Zhongxingwei held its first brand and full-stack product launch in Wuxi, showing 12 mass-produced chips and releasing three new products: what it calls China's first PCIe 6.0 Switch (C82-4G), its first 800G multi-protocol AI NIC, and a multi-mode RAID chip. The C82-4G supports up to 144 PCIe 6.0 lanes at 64 GT/s per lane, double PCIe 5.0, plus Fabric networking and CXL memory pooling; the 800G AI NIC integrates a 48-lane PCIe Gen6 switch, targets Hygon CPUs and next-generation Compute Tray supernode architectures, and supports RoCE v2 and VeRoCE offload with hardware packet spraying, out-of-order reassembly and programmable congestion control. The company said it shipped more than 400,000 chips in 2025 with over 1 billion yuan in sales and more than 800,000 cumulative units, and claims its multi-mode RAID chip roughly doubles overseas advanced products and delivers up to a 47% write-bandwidth edge over Broadcom in a 16-drive RAID5 256KiB sequential write test; those comparisons come from the vendor.

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4. 2d
   Nubia NaviX Ultra opens 300-slot 'Beta Lab' for in-development AI features

   Nubia announced a "Beta Lab" program for its NaviX Ultra phone during the device's first evolution livestream, offering a limited 300 beta slots so users can try experimental internal features earlier, including in-development AI capabilities, and help turn ideas into official product features. The NaviX Ultra launched on September 16, built end-to-end under ZTE's Nubia with the Doubao Phone Assistant leading the AI assistant experience, and runs on the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 mobile platform. It comes in four colors (Dream, Blue Realm, black and white), with a subsidized starting price of 5,499 yuan; the 12GB+512GB model costs 5,999 yuan, 16GB+512GB 6,499 yuan and 16GB+1TB 7,499 yuan.

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5. 2d
   Nubia NaviX Ultra buyers get six months of Doubao membership

   During its October 14 NaviX Ultra "evolution" livestream, Nubia said it is adding a purchase perk to the phone: buyers during the Double 11 window (Oct 15–Nov 11) who post a review get six months of Doubao standard membership, while users who bought in the first month (Sept 16–Oct 14) receive it directly; Nubia put the perk's value at 408 yuan. The NaviX Ultra launched on Sept 16, led end-to-end by ZTE's Nubia, with the AI assistant experience led by the Doubao mobile assistant; it comes in four colors, runs on the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 platform, and starts at 5,499 yuan after subsidies, with 12GB+512GB at 5,999 yuan, 16GB+512GB at 6,499 yuan and 16GB+1TB at 7,499 yuan.

   IT之家 AI · 🔥 0
6. 6d
   Nubia NaviX Ultra opens 'beta lab' program, Oct 14 livestream

   Nubia said its NaviX Ultra "beta lab" program will open soon, letting early adopters test the newest capabilities first, with the first evolution livestream scheduled for Oct 14 at 19:00. The device, called the "second-generation Doubao phone," is marketed by Nubia as the "world's first AI agent phone," built end-to-end by ZTE's Nubia, and pitched on letting users execute complex cross-app tasks with a single spoken instruction, with the Doubao phone assistant leading the AI experience; it starts at 5,999 yuan. Hardware includes a Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 platform, a 6.78-inch 1–144Hz LTPO 2.0 display, a 200MP main camera, a 7,100mAh battery, a dedicated AI key with integrated fingerprint recognition, and Seed's latest full-duplex speech model.

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