➀ Intel's Q2 2025 revenue remained flat at $12.9B with losses deepening to $2.9B;

➁ The company announced radical restructuring plans, including layoffs of 30,000 employees by 2025 and CEO Lip-Bu Tan's personal oversight of chip designs;

➂ Strategic shifts include pivoting toward AI inference/full-stack solutions, re-evaluating foundry investments (18A/14A nodes), and reviving Hyper-Threading for desktop CPUs to counter AMD's EPYC.

➀ IISc and QSRTC developed an AI-powered tool using machine learning to automatically assess corrosion in industrial machinery through microscope image analysis;

➁ The system measures deposit thickness and porosity to determine corrosion severity, correlating pH levels with damage stages (critical threshold at pH=3) for early warnings;

➂ Demonstrated 73% accuracy in steam generator tube tests, the unsupervised model streamlines industrial inspections and supports digital monitoring transformation.

➀ Intel reported flat Q2 2025 revenue at $12.9 billion YoY, with losses widening to $2.9 billion and gross margin dropping to 27.5%;

➁ The company announced workforce reduction to 75,000 employees, halted expansions in Germany and Poland, and adjusted fab investments to align with confirmed customer demand;

➂ Intel prioritizes financial discipline, AI development, and optimizing its foundry business, with Data Center and AI group revenue growing 4% while Client Computing declined 3%.

➀ Elon Musk's xAI startup raised $10 billion in June 2025, seeks an additional $12 billion, and has an annual cash burn rate of $13 billion, with minimal reported revenue;

➁ xAI is constructing custom AI datacenters (e.g., the Memphis-based 'Colossus' with 200,000 Nvidia GPUs) through leased GPUs and complex financial deals to keep pace with rapid hardware advancements;

➂ Despite skepticism about its economics, Musk’s proven track record with Tesla and SpaceX fuels confidence in xAI’s ambitious goal to deploy 1 million GPUs for training its AI model Grok.

➀ TH Köln and brehmergroup are developing an AI-based gesture control system with haptic feedback integrated into motorcycle grips, aiming to minimize safety risks from manual device operation;

➁ The system detects gestures (e.g., tapping, swiping) via grip sensors to control functions like call acceptance and turn signals while keeping hands on the handlebars;

➂ The project builds on patented heated grip technology, with potential applications in e-bikes and scooters, supported by €220,000 in government funding until 2026.

➀ LTO tape storage shipments surged to 176.5 exabytes in 2024 with 15.4% YoY growth, marking four consecutive years of record highs;

➁ Enterprises increasingly adopt LTO for AI/ML implementations, leveraging its cost-effectiveness, security, and compatibility with modern storage architectures;

➂ Despite the U.S. DOGE's dismissal of tape as 'obsolete,' industry leaders emphasize LTO's irreplaceable role in sustainable and high-capacity data storage solutions.

➀ Hygon launched the C86-5G server processor, a proprietary x86 design to compete with Intel Xeon and AMD Epyc;

➁ The chip features up to 128 cores with SMT4, DDR5-5600 memory support, AVX-512 for AI workloads, and PCIe 5.0/CXL 2.0 connectivity;

➂ Acquired by Chinese supercomputer firm Sugon, it targets enterprise servers, AI clusters, and large-scale data centers.

➀ HTWK Leipzig's Boosted Robots team won the RoboCup 2025 Humanoid League – Kid Size world championship with an 11:0 victory over China's TH-MOS;

➁ The team utilized new Booster K1 humanoid robots from Booster Robotics, enhancing computing power and AI capabilities for the competition;

➂ HTWK's innovative software adaptation and collaboration with Booster Robotics highlight advancements in AI and robotics, reinforcing the university's leadership in applied research.

➀ The Boosted HTWK Robots team from HTWK Leipzig won the 2025 RoboCup in Salvador, Brazil, defeating China's TH-MOS 11-0 in the Humanoid League final;

➁ The team utilized new Booster Robotics humanoid robots, enhancing computational power, sensors, and AI programming for navigation and gameplay;

➂ The victory underscores HTWK Leipzig's leadership in AI and robotics, aligning with RoboCup's 2050 goal of robots outperforming human soccer champions.

➀ AMD and Stability AI co-launch Stable Diffusion 3.0 Medium AI model optimized for XDNA 2 NPUs, enabling offline 4K image generation on Ryzen AI laptops;

➁ The model requires Ryzen AI 300-series or MAX+ processors with 24GB RAM, uses 9GB VRAM during operation, and supports text-to-4MP image conversion;

➂ Currently free for small businesses under $1M revenue via Amuse 3.1 Beta, emphasizing privacy-focused local AI processing against cloud dependencies.

➀ Researchers at Sejong University developed STAU, a hardware accelerator enabling edge devices to run large AI models like BERT and GPT with 5.18× speedup over CPUs and 97% accuracy;

➁ The design uses a Variable Systolic Array (VSA) and Radix-2 softmax optimization to reduce computational complexity and power consumption, cutting processing time by 68% for long inputs;

➂ Implemented on FPGA with a custom 16-bit floating-point format, STAU supports multiple transformer models via software updates, advancing on-device AI deployment without cloud dependency.

➀ The datacentre processor market is projected to grow from $147B in 2024 to $372B by 2030, driven by AI expansion, with NVIDIA dominating the server GPU market (over 90% share) through its CUDA ecosystem and Blackwell/Rubin platforms;

➁ AI ASICs and custom chips (e.g., Google TPUs, AWS Trainium, Huawei Ascend) are rising as cost-efficient solutions for hyperscalers, while Arm-based CPUs like Amazon Graviton and Nvidia Grace gain traction for power efficiency;

➂ Geopolitical tensions and export controls spur local AI infrastructure investments, with China accelerating domestic semiconductor development and NVIDIA adapting export-compliant chips amid industry consolidation (e.g., SoftBank-Graphcore, AWS-Tenstorrent).

➀ Kioxia launches the world's highest-capacity 245.76TB SSD using BiCS8 3D QLC NAND, targeting AI and hyperscale data centers;

➀ Features 32-layer NAND packages, PCIe 5.0 x4 interface, 12GB/s read speeds, but prioritizes density over peak performance;

➂ Includes advanced encryption and reliability features, with sampling to partners ahead of August 2025 conference.

➀ The Robotics Team from Hochschule Bonn-Rhein-Sieg secured the world championship in the industrial robotics category (@work) at the 2025 RoboCup in Brazil, marking their third title and setting a new record of 9,551 points for the highest score ever achieved by a working robot team;

➁ The team utilized a KUKA youBot robot for autonomous navigation, object recognition, and precision tasks, showcasing advanced AI and autonomous systems capabilities;

➂ The university’s Institute for Artificial Intelligence and Autonomous Systems (A2S) highlights its longstanding focus on cutting-edge robotics research, with applications spanning logistics, healthcare, and agile manufacturing.

➀ Autonomous AI agents in healthcare are advancing beyond traditional applications, but existing regulatory frameworks in the US and Europe are insufficient for their complexity and adaptability;

➁ Researchers propose adaptive regulatory pathways, including enforcement discretion policies, voluntary alternative approval pathways, and long-term solutions akin to medical professional qualification, to ensure safety and innovation;

➂ Collaboration among regulators, healthcare providers, and developers is critical to achieving safe and effective implementation of autonomous AI agents in clinical settings.

➀ Researchers highlight the growing gap between autonomous AI agents' capabilities and existing medical device regulations in the U.S. and Europe, emphasizing patient safety concerns;

➁ Proposed solutions include short-term enforcement adjustments, voluntary alternative approval pathways (VAPs), and long-term regulatory frameworks resembling medical professional qualifications;

➂ Collaboration among regulators, healthcare providers, and developers is deemed critical to enable safe AI innovation while maintaining adaptive oversight.

➀ CHIIPS Podcast #12 features Dr. Sakya Dasgupta from EdgeCortix, discussing neural computation and AI at the edge, with a focus on power-efficient hardware-software co-design;

➁ The conversation highlights EdgeCortix’s DNA IP, Sakura processors for robotics/defense systems, and collaborations with NASA, the US Defense Innovation Unit, and Japan’s semiconductor initiatives;

➂ The podcast series aims to explore key electronics industry trends, with future episodes covering sector updates and expert predictions.

➀ The ISS National Lab selected six startups (Kall Morris, Magma Space, Melagen Labs, Olfera, Quantum Qool, Raptor Dynamix) for its Orbital Edge Accelerator, offering up to $500,000 each to advance space-focused innovations;

➀ Projects span in-space logistics, AI-driven satellite control, radiation shielding, medical research via lab-on-a-chip, laser-based thermal management, and autonomous edge computing systems;

➂ The program aims to catalyze the space economy, with past ISS-supported startups raising $2.4 billion post-research.

➀ NVIDIA announces CUDA platform support for RISC-V ISA at 2025 RISC-V Summit China, marking the first open-source architecture integrated into its AI ecosystem;

➀ RISC-V CPUs can now serve as main processors in CUDA-based systems, enabling edge computing solutions like Jetson modules and potential datacenter applications;

➁ The move strategically strengthens NVIDIA's position in China's semiconductor market amid U.S. export restrictions, while fostering heterogeneous computing architectures combining RISC-V CPUs, GPUs, and DPUs.