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Every Silicon AI News story about AI Chips, month by month, newest first.
It is the first real test of its idea for data centres in space.
Google said on September 24 that its first Project Suncatcher satellite, built with Planet, will launch on a SpaceX rideshare mission next week. The satellite carries four of Google’s TPU chips and will test how they cope with radiation, heat, and launch forces. Reports put the launch on October 1.
It has published no tests to prove it.
At its Apsara conference on September 22, Alibaba showed the Zhenwu V900, a chip for training and running AI. It says the chip has three times the performance of May’s M890 and will be mass-produced from early 2027. It also plans Qwen models with 5 to 10 trillion parameters.
The numbers still need outside tests.
The Atlas 960E SuperPoD links up to 4,096 AI processors with near-packaged optics. Huawei claims lower power use and higher reliability, while the first Ascend 960 chips are planned for 2027.
Production is still planned for 2027.
Liberty Global joined a funding round that values Positron at $5 billion. The company says its design avoids scarce high-bandwidth memory, but its next chip has not entered production.
The details are still thin.
OpenAI says the companies are working on chip production and research. Samsung has not confirmed its exact role, so the announcement is a direction, not a finished product.