• Apple goes touchscreen 👆, Anthropic, Nscale make a deal 🤝, SpaceX flies Starfall 🚀

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    APPLE CONFIRMS OCT 28 EVENT FOR ITS FIRST TOUCH-SCREEN OLED MACBO=
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    PRO (2 MINUTE READ) [4]=20

    Apple confirmed an October 28 event in =
    Los Angeles where it is
    expected to debut its first touch-screen Macs: 14=
    - and 16-inch MacBook
    Pros with tandem OLED panels, a Dynamic Island in p=
    lace of the notch,
    a lighter build, and M5 Pro and M5 Max chips. Apple is=
    also expected
    to launch an entry-level 14-inch MacBook Pro and iMac on t=
    he M6, its
    first 2nm chip, in unchanged designs, plus an OLED iPad mini. =
    Retail
    availability is expected November 6.=20

    ANTHROPIC AND NSCALE R=
    EPORTEDLY NEAR A SECOND $45B COMPUTE DEAL (2
    MINUTE READ) [5]=20

    Anth=
    ropic and AI infrastructure provider Nscale are reportedly close
    to annou=
    ncing a second $45 billion compute deal, just over a month
    after their fi=
    rst in August, though talks are ongoing and details
    could change. This wo=
    uld add to Anthropic's string of massive capacity
    commitments, even as so=
    me investors worry about spending outpacing
    profit. Nscale is also pursui=
    ng an IPO, but investors are pushing back
    on its proposed $30 billion val=
    uation.=20

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    ENGINEERING AND APPLICATIONS

    SPACEMI=
    T ANNOUNCES THE V100 SERVER-CLASS RISC-V PROCESSOR (2 MINUTE
    READ) [6] =


    SpacemiT claims its V100 chip is the first chip fully compliant with=

    the RISC-V server specification. The chip packs 46 cores (6 XiangShan
    =
    Kunminghu V2R2 plus 40 SpacemiT X100) at 2.2-2.4GHz on 12nm with a
    120W T=
    DP, supports eight-channel DDR5-4800 and 52 PCIe 5.0 lanes, and
    scales to=
    two sockets and 92 cores. The specs trail Intel Xeon, AMD
    EPYC, and Arm =
    server chips, and performance is untested.=20

    NVIDIA VERA'S MEMORY SYST=
    EM DELIVERS 1.2 TB/S WITH FLAT LATENCY, BUT
    CROSS-SOCKET LINKS LAG (5 MIN=
    UTE READ) [7]=20

    Chips and Cheese's teardown of Vera's fabric found a 1=
    024-bit
    LPDDR5X-9600 interface delivering 1.228 TB/s, with latency stayin=
    g
    under 200 ns even as bandwidth load climbs, plus a 164 MB shared L3
    a=
    nd field-serviceable SOCAMM2 modules. NVLink C2C moves up to 780 GB/s
    bet=
    ween sockets, but cross-socket core-to-core latency is around 660
    ns. Ver=
    a trails Graviton 5 on socket-level throughput but leads by
    nearly 20% in=
    DRAM-bound SPEC tests.=20

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    RESEARCH AND PROTOTYPES
    =

    SPACEX FLIES ITS STARFALL RETURN CAPSULE FOR THE SECOND TIME ON A
    32-=
    PAYLOAD RIDESHARE (3 MINUTE READ) [8]=20

    SpaceX launched its Starfall r=
    eturn capsule for the second time on
    the Bandwagon-5 rideshare, one of 32=
    payloads on a Falcon 9 booster
    flying for the 19th time. Per an FAA asse=
    ssment, the disk-shaped
    capsule is about 10 feet wide and weighs 4,600 po=
    unds, and can bring
    2,200 pounds of payload home, aimed at microgravity r=
    esearch and
    in-space manufacturing. It deployed last, 2 hours 48 minutes =
    after
    liftoff, alongside Varda's W-Series 7 capsule.=20

    HPE SPACEBORN=
    E COMPUTER-4 WILL BRING AI AND HPC TO THE MOON ON
    ASTROLAB FLIP (4 MINUTE=
    READ) [9]=20

    HPE's Spaceborne Computer-4 will be the first HPC benchma=
    rk on the
    lunar surface, launching in late 2026 aboard Astrolab's FLIP ro=
    ver
    under NASA's CLPS initiative. It will manage AI workloads such as
    v=
    ision inference and LiDAR data processing in the Moon's
    high-radiation, a=
    tmosphere-free environment. NASA and Deloitte are
    joining this mission to=
    enhance AI capabilities, including Federated
    Learning and predictive cyb=
    er-analytics.=20

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    MISCELLANEOUS

    WHY PHYSICAL AI =
    IS SO HARD TO ENGINEER (13 MINUTE READ) [10]=20

    This article presents v=
    iews from Synopsys, Keysight, Renesas,
    Arteris, Cadence, and Mixel on how=
    physical AI changes chip design.
    Engineers must handle unpredictable env=
    ironments, safety and
    serviceability, and split designs between devices t=
    hat can rely on the
    cloud and those that must run fully locally, such as =
    vehicles. Several
    speakers frame it as a sensing and imaging problem as m=
    uch as a
    compute one.=20

    AI HARDWARE DESIGN IS THE EASY PART, THE LOS=
    SY PHYSICAL INTERFACE IS
    THE BOTTLENECK (15 MINUTE READ) [11]=20

    AI w=
    ill soon be superhuman at hardware design, but the
    digital-to-physical in=
    terface is lossy. Building real parts means
    navigating CNC/CAM translatio=
    n, tolerance stacking, vendors, and
    scale, while measuring reality is spa=
    rse, slow, expensive, and
    sometimes qualitative. Demand is expected to sh=
    ift toward suppliers of
    machined parts, harnesses, and components, plus b=
    etter simulation and
    process-knowledge data.=20

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    INFINEON TARGETS SEMICONDUCTOR MARKET FOR HUMANOID ROBOTIC HAND=
    S (3
    MINUTE READ) [12]=20

    Infineon pitched MCUs, power semiconductors=
    , and tactile sensors for
    humanoid hands at SEDEX 2026 in Seoul on Octobe=
    r 16.=20

    MUSK PLEDGES ONE SPACEX SHARE TO EVERY US CHILD, A ROUGHLY $10=
    .5B
    GIFT (2 MINUTE READ) [13]=20

    Elon Musk has pledged to give one Sp=
    aceX share to every child in
    America next year.=20

    SPACEX'S AI BUSINE=
    SS IS NOW ITS LARGEST SEGMENT, AND AI TOOK $16.4B
    OF $19.6B IN Q3 CAPEX (=
    3 MINUTE READ) [14]=20

    SpaceX posted $14.6 billion in Q3 revenue, up 16=
    1%, and its first
    quarterly profit as a public company at $4.4 billion. =


    INTEL SEEKS AN FCC WAIVER FOR FOREIGN-MADE FAB ROBOTS THAT MOVE
    WA=
    FERS BETWEEN TOOLS (3 MINUTE READ) [15]=20

    Intel asked the FCC for a co=
    nditional waiver for the automated guided
    vehicles that shuttle wafers an=
    d supplies between tools in its fabs,
    fearing they fall under the new for=
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    MONARCH QUANTUM SUPPLIES PHOTONICS FOR NASA'S PLANNE=
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    QUANTUM GRAVITY GRADIOMETER (3 MINUTE READ) [16]=20

    Mon=
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    electronics for Infleqtion=
    's work on NASA JPL's Quantum Gravity
    Gradiometer Pathfinder, which is mo=
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    testing under a $20 million follow-on =
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    of the notch, a lighter build, and M5 Pro and M5 Max chips. Apple is also = expected to launch an entry-level 14-inch MacBook Pro and iMac on the M6, i=
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