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South Korean AI chip design firm DeepX partners with Baidu on industrial AI projects, as sources say it is preparing to raise a round above its $79M Series C (Yoolim Lee/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-…

AI Chip Firm DeepX Hires Morgan Stanley for Funding Before IPO
South Korean AI chip designer DeepX Co. has hired Morgan Stanley to assist with a round of capital-raising ahead of a potential initial public offering in 2027.

The precise scale of Apple's pledge to invest $600B in the US over four years is difficult to measure, as the company has not provided a breakdown of its plan (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/cf48ff44-9220-4c69-9c1f-ed0e1381c1a6

Apple unveils the A19 chip, with a 6-core CPU and 5-core GPU, the A19 Pro, with a 6-core CPU and 6-core GPU, the N1 networking chip, and the C1X modem (Tom's Hardware)
https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry

Apple debuts A19 and A19 Pro processors for iPhone 17, iPhone Air, and iPhone 17 Pro
New phones, new chips, more cooling.

China unveils sweeping export controls on rare-earth minerals, creating rules akin to US measures that block chip-related exports to China from third countries (Ryan McMorrow/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/c4b2c5d9-c82f-401e-b763-bc9581019cb7

China unveils sweeping rare-earth export controls to protect ‘national security’
Rules come ahead of expected meeting this month between Donald Trump and Xi Jinping

Nvidia is aggressively opposing Republican-led proposals to limit AI chip sales to China, labeling supporters as "AI doomers", an unconventional lobbying blitz (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/09/technology/nvidia-china-chip-s…

Nvidia Accuses Rivals of Being A.I. Doomers as US Debates Sale of Chips to China
Rankling national security experts, the chipmaker has stepped up attacks on lawmakers who are pushing restrictions.

Apple announces $249 Apple Watch SE 3, featuring the S10 chip, an always-on display, support for gestures, coming September 19 (Ben Lovejoy/9to5Mac)
https://9to5mac.com/2025/09/09/apple-watch-se-3-announced-with-s10-chip-and-always-on-display/

Apple Watch SE 3 announced
The Apple Watch SE 3 has been announced alongside the Series 11 and Ultra 3. The SE was long due...

Intel unveils an 18A-based 2nm Clearwater Forest server CPU, launching in H1 2026 with up to 288 E-cores and more, produced in its Fab 52 plant in Arizona (InsideHPC)
https://insidehpc.com/2025/10/intel-announces-18a-bas…

Intel Announces 18A-based 2nm Clearwater Forest Server CPU Produced at Fab 52 in Arizona
Intel today unveiled its most advanced semiconductor process and previewed Xeon 6+ (code-named Clearwater Forest), its first Intel 18A-based 2nm data - Read more from Inside HPC & AI News.

The team behind AI agent Manus has relocated its HQ to Singapore and started recruiting there, while parent company Butterfly Effect reportedly remains in China (Hannah Wang/South China Morning Post)
https://www.scmp.com/tech/tech-t…

Chinese start-up Manus AI relocates to Singapore amid US chip curbs
Manus AI has begun recruiting in the city state, offering positions such as data analyst and AI agent engineer.

Dell says its CFO, Yvonne McGill, will resign effective September 9 after nearly 30 years with the company and names SVP David Kennedy as interim CFO (Savyata Mishra/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/dell-cfo-yvonne-mcgill-leave-…

China bans TechInsights from working with or receiving data from Chinese entities, citing national security concerns, after a report on Huawei's Ascend AI chips (Dylan Butts/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/10/10/china-blac

China blacklists major chip research firm TechInsights following report on Huawei
Beijing has banned semiconductor researcher TechInsights from working with or receiving data from entities in China.