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Nvidia denies reports that the RTX 5090 is discontinued, stating it will continue shipping. Senior VP Jeff Fisher confirms production at a Taipei event, though US listings are gone. Most available cards cost over $9,300, with the priciest model reaching $10,899.
Apple announces a special Pro and Tell event for October 28 at 10 a.m. PT in Los Angeles. The lineup includes new 14-inch and 16-inch MacBook Pro models with OLED displays powered by M5 Pro and M5 Max chips, plus an entry-level model using the M6 chip.
Amazon launches TorchNeuron, an open-source tool allowing developers to run PyTorch code on Trainium chips with no rewrite, starting Tuesday at the PyTorch Conference in San Jose. More than 30 teams used it during private beta. Deepgram found Trainium processes 60% more audio per dollar than its GPU setup.
Nvidia launches new open-weight models Thursday for enterprise agents and edge computing. The 120-billion-parameter Nemotron 3.5 Super VL competes with Anthropic and OpenAI. Lightweight Bolt models run locally on new AI PCs via partners like Microsoft and Dell. Nemotron 3.5 Bolt 74B-A9B 24GB handles local agentic tasks, while Bolt E4B targets conversational agents.
Xiaomi launches the Redmi K100 in China on October 27, 2026, featuring a 6.83-inch 165Hz display with 3,500 nits peak brightness. The device uses the Snapdragon 8 Elite chipset and includes Bose-tuned audio, marking a new entry in the mid-range market.
Nvidia VP Jeff Fisher claims the RTX 5090 remains in production despite rumors, though retail prices range from $7,800 to $1,100. The company cites a constrained supply chain and AI-driven memory shortages for the hikes, while Brazilian distributors report seized pallets worth $470,000. This creates a contradiction between official statements and market reality for consumers.
Turbine Capital, a Swedish VC fund, announced the final close of its first DeepTech fund at 54 million euros. Mycronic joins alongside Saab, Scania, Volvo Cars and Stena. The fund targets Nordic startups connecting with industrial leaders including defence, transport and semiconductor technology sectors.
Pinterest Engineering introduces ModuleLens, a tool for human and agentic engineering that isolates PyTorch modules to bypass multi-GPU initialization bottlenecks. The system utilizes a ModuleTracer, ModuleRepo built on Weights & Biases, and a Consumption Layer supporting Jupyter extensions and AI agents like Claude Code and Cursor to accelerate debugging and optimization workflows.
At a Berlin event, the European Broadcasting Union partners with NVIDIA to expand sovereign cloud standards for data control. Simultaneously, Adobe and NVIDIA launch accelerated computing tools that deliver 5x faster embedding generation and 4x higher throughput for video search.
Samsung may launch a rugged Galaxy XCover phone with a built-in RFID reader. A Geekbench listing reveals the Qualcomm Dragonwing Q-6690 processor, which supports 5G, Wi-Fi 7, Bluetooth 6.0, and UWB. The chip includes 8GB of RAM and runs Android 16. Qualcomm states the processor integrates an ultra-high-frequency RFID reader directly into the silicon to eliminate separate modules.
Tenstorrent, a Santa Clara inference chipmaker, announced Monday it raised $1.5 billion at a $6.2 billion post-money valuation led by Trace Capital and Innovation X. The startup declined to comment on market speculation regarding earlier interest from Intel and Qualcomm.
Santa Clara-based Tenstorrent raised $1.5 billion in Series E funding on October 19, 2026, valuing the company at $6.2 billion. CEO Jim Keller led the round with Trace Capital and Innovation X, ending prior talks for a $8 billion to $10 billion Qualcomm deal.
ChangXin Memory Technologies shares dropped 6.5% to 7.8% on Monday despite forecasting 2026 net profits between 131 billion yuan and 132.5 billion yuan. The company expects revenue of 265 billion yuan to 270 billion yuan, reversing a 5.28 billion yuan loss from the same period a year earlier.
Microsoft terminated a UK data center deal with startup Nscale due to power-supply issues. The Loughton site would host 23,000 Nvidia GB300 chips and 50 megawatts of capacity. Nscale faces a potential $35 billion IPO after raising $3.36 billion in convertible notes.