The Dual Giants Go Solo: A New Era for FPGA as It Turns Forty

The Dual Giants Go Solo: A New Era for FPGA as It Turns Forty

In 2025, a low-key yet monumental invention in the semiconductor industry—FPGA (Field Programmable Gate Array)—will celebrate its fortieth anniversary. This is not just a milestone in time, but rather a dramatic historical metaphor. In this special year of turning forty, the two giants that once dominated the FPGA market for decades, Xilinx and Altera, after … Read more

Celebrating 40 Years of FPGA Innovation

Celebrating 40 Years of FPGA Innovation

Forty years ago, Xilinx introduced a revolutionary device that allowed engineers to use logic programming right at their desks. The Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) developed by Xilinx enabled engineers to download bitstreams with custom logic to desktop programmers for immediate execution, eliminating the weeks of waiting for chips to return from the foundry. If … Read more

OpenAI Terminates Partnership with Humanoid Robot Unicorn, Netizens Wonder: Will They Switch to DeepSeek?

OpenAI Terminates Partnership with Humanoid Robot Unicorn, Netizens Wonder: Will They Switch to DeepSeek?

Quantum Bit | WeChat Official Account QbitAI It is quite unexpected that the humanoid robot unicorn Figure has announced the termination of its partnership with OpenAI. The founder Brett Adcock stated that significant breakthroughs have been made in their end-to-end robot AI, and they will showcase “something that has never been seen in humanoid robots” … Read more

The Acceleration of Valuation Discrepancies in New Robotics Forces

The Acceleration of Valuation Discrepancies in New Robotics Forces

Reason: The Acceleration of Valuation Discrepancies in New Robotics Forces 1. Current Status and Causes of Valuation Discrepancies Capital Concentration at the Top, Leading to Valuation Discrepancies Leading companies in the embodied intelligence field, such as Yushu (valued at nearly 20 billion), Zhiyuan (15 billion), and Fourier (8 billion), have formed a “super unicorn” camp, … Read more

Le Dong Robotics Goes Public in Hong Kong: Major Transformation Risks Ahead

Le Dong Robotics Goes Public in Hong Kong: Major Transformation Risks Ahead

1. Development History: Breaking Technological Barriers, Eight Years to Evolve into a Global Leader in Visual Perception 1. Entrepreneurial Gene: A Second Venture by the Huazhong University of Science and Technology Alumni Founders Zhou Wei and Guo Gaihua are both alumni of Huazhong University of Science and Technology. They co-founded the balance bike company “Le … Read more

The Academic Background of Robot Company Founders: A Mix of 985 and 211 Graduates

The Academic Background of Robot Company Founders: A Mix of 985 and 211 Graduates

On June 7, the 2025 college entrance examination is upon us, with millions of students heading to the exam halls.Outside the exam halls, a group of booming robot companies is stirring up the business landscape. What kind of educational backgrounds do the founders of these companies have?According to public information,more than half of the 17 … Read more

The Robot Revolution: Opportunities for Blue-Collar Replacement and China Under Breakthroughs in Physics Engines

The Robot Revolution: Opportunities for Blue-Collar Replacement and China Under Breakthroughs in Physics Engines

1. Introduction: A Technological Leap from AI Illusions to Physical Intuition Throughout the evolution of human civilization, technological revolutions often reshape social structures in unexpected ways. As generative AI like ChatGPT demonstrates astonishing capabilities in artistic creation, a profound paradox emerges: while humanity expects AI to liberate physical labor, we first witness its breakthroughs in … Read more

Twin-engine Mid-thrust + DSI Air Inlet: Is India’s Stealth Fighter Secretly Learning from the J-35?

Twin-engine Mid-thrust + DSI Air Inlet: Is India's Stealth Fighter Secretly Learning from the J-35?

According to a report by Global Network on June 7, 2025, the latest full-size model of India’s AMCA stealth fighter released by the Ministry of Defense shows that its twin-engine mid-thrust + DSI air inlet layout has an 82% similarity to China’s J-35 fighter. This incident, characterized by international military experts as a “systematic technological … Read more

Research on the Ancient Counties of Luzhou During the Tang and Song Dynasties

Research on the Ancient Counties of Luzhou During the Tang and Song Dynasties

Author: Professor Guo Shengbo, Jinan University In the border area of Sichuan, Guizhou, and Yunnan provinces today, during the Tang and Song dynasties, Luzhou was part of the Luzhou Governor’s Office and the Luzhou Southern Border Pacification Office, which successively established nineteen military prefectures and over fifty military counties. However, the geographical records from the … Read more

Chip Tape-out Success Rate Plummets to 14%: The Technical Winter Behind the Failure of Eight Out of Ten Design Companies

Chip Tape-out Success Rate Plummets to 14%: The Technical Winter Behind the Failure of Eight Out of Ten Design Companies

A precise maze on a wafer is consuming billions in R&D funds and market opportunities. In June 2025, the semiconductor industry faced a silent “avalanche.” According to the latest data from Siemens EDA: the global chip tape-out success rate has plummeted to a historic low of 14%, meaning that eight out of ten design companies … Read more