Ai Chip

Axera debuts 5nm M9 ADAS chip series delivering up to 720 TOPS: Axera has debuted its 5nm M9 ADAS SoC series, featuring the flagship M97 chip at approximately 720 TOPS and the mainstream M95 chip at around 360 TOPS. The series integrates self-developed NPU, ISP, and CVA blocks, and supports dual-chip redundancy reaching nearly 1,440 TOPS.

AI Hardware • Pandaily

OpenAI unveils Jalapeño chip designed using its own LLMs: OpenAI has fully unveiled Jalapeño, its debut AI accelerator chip designed using its own large language models. The chip delivers up to 13.4 petaflops of 4-bit compute and accesses 232 gigabytes of memory at 15.4 terabytes per second.

Hardware • IEEE Spectrum AI

Cornelis • Cornelis

Intel spin-off Cornelis raises $205 million for AI networking tech: Cornelis, a company spun off from Intel in 2020 to build networking technology for AI chip communication, has raised $205 million. The funding round was led by IAG Capital. The company plans to use the capital to support its technology development.

JD Cloud plans 100,000-GPU computing cluster with Moore Threads: JD Cloud has announced plans to build a computing cluster powered by 100,000 general-purpose GPUs from Chinese chipmaker Moore Threads. Revealed at JD's 2026 Global Technology Explorers Conference, the project will support large-model training, inference, and embodied AI.

Infrastructure • TechNode