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 "This Week's Top Stories:  The robot-sized hole in America's China chip controls."

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WEEK OF AUGUST 31 – 6, 2026 Weekly Edition • Tuesdays TLDR THIS WEEK The Robot-Sized Hole in America’s China Chip Controls NVIDIA’s $3.5 Billion MediaTek Deal Expands Its AI Infrastructure Reach AI Accelerator Deployment Can Take Four Months or More This Week’s Top Stories The Robot-Sized Hole in America’s China Chip Controls September 01, 2026 Nvidia delivered another blockbuster earnings report this week, but one line in its outlook was easy to miss. The company said its guidance assumes no data center compute revenue from China. That is different from saying Nvidia expects no revenue from China. Far from it. Read more → NVIDIA’s $3.5 Billion MediaTek Deal Expands Its AI Infrastructure Reach August 31, 2026 NVIDIA is investing $3.5 billion in Taiwanese chip designer MediaTek, a deal designed to keep NVIDIA technology central to AI data centers even as hyperscalers develop more of their own processors. For NVIDIA, the transaction is its largest direct investment outside the U.S. Read more → AI Accelerator Deployment Can Take Four Months or More August 31, 2026 Enterprises are finding that deploying AI accelerators is no easy task. In a recent survey, nearly 62% of semiconductor buyers report that it takes at least four months to get from purchasing an accelerator system to generating their first production AI token. Read more → VIDEO INTERVIEWS  VIDEO INTERVIEW AI Agent Access Controls Become Critical as Enterprise Automation Scales August 31, 2026  VIDEO INTERVIEW Trusted Open Source Catalog for AI Agents | ActiveState August 31, 2026 TECHSTRONG LEARNING  UPCOMING LIVE No Data Privacy, No Innovation Register Now • Sep 8 • 11:00 AM UTC  UPCOMING LIVE Give Your AI Investigator a Complete Case File Register Now • Sep 9 • 11:00 AM UTC  ON DEMAND Modernizing Manufacturing: How to Move from Legacy Infrastructure to Cloud-Ready Operations Available Now Browse all learning events → The Techstrong Semi Brief The Center of Gravity for the Silicon Economy. Techstrong Semi • Techstrong TV • Events • Advertise Powered by Techstrong Group | a Futurum company Subscribe • Unsubscribe • Manage Preferences