Qualcomm launches the Snapdragon 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6, a mobile chip designed to run 30-billion-parameter mixture-of-experts AI models directly on phones, targeting next year’s Android flagships alongside Snapdragon Sound Elite Gen 2 wearables hardware.
Inferact open-sources TPU v7 megakernels and claims its Kimi K3 implementation surpasses 700 tokens per second with speculative decoding on 16 TPU v7 chips, using one Pallas kernel to fuse all 92 MoE layers.
Meta unveils the Charm AI pendant and expands its Muse assistant with voice, interactive avatars, Mac control, email and AI-glasses access, while Mark Zuckerberg says the 2-inch-display wearable packs 5G, dual cameras and a fingerprint sensor.
Perplexity brings its Portable on-device AI agents to AMD Ryzen AI Max Windows PCs, letting Pro and Max subscribers run PPLX 27B or Qwen 27B locally with Gmail, Outlook, Slack, and GitHub integrations without using Computer credits.
AMD says its sixth-generation EPYC processors lead agentic AI data-center workloads, offering up to 512 threads, 16 memory channels, PCIe Gen 6 and boost clocks up to 5 GHz for AI agent host nodes and sandboxes.
Google launches Project Suncatcher’s first prototype satellite on SpaceX’s Transporter-18 mission to test Trillium AI chips in low Earth orbit, ahead of a 2027 two-satellite laser-link demonstration for orbital TPU clusters.
Google launches its first Project Suncatcher satellite on October 1 to test orbital AI data centers, carrying four TPUs to run Gemini in roughly 15-minute bursts before radiators must cool the chips.
Qualcomm unveils Snapdragon Sound Elite Gen 2, an on-device AI platform for earbuds, smart glasses, watches and pins that it says doubles AI capability while using 40% less power and can run multiple AI agents at once.
ChangXin Memory Technologies says its 11.95nm fifth-generation DRAM has entered mass production, claiming parity with Samsung and Micron’s leading nodes while using four-exposure patterning under U.S. export controls.
Qualcomm launches Snapdragon 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6 and 8 Elite Gen 6 chips, with the Extreme model running 30-billion-parameter on-device AI and debuting in Motorola’s Signature 27.