Semiconductors & Infrastructure

This article explains how endpoints, now handling inference in the AI era, face diverse threats as targets of intensifying cyberattacks.

• •Endpoints have begun taking on the new role of inference processing in the AI era.
• •They are exposed to diverse threats as targets of intensifying cyberattacks.
• •In an era assuming breach, the true value of endpoints is being questioned.

Native Ubuntu support for Qualcomm's Snapdragon X2 series is previewed for a 2027 release.

• •Native Ubuntu support for Qualcomm's Snapdragon X2 series is previewed for an upcoming release.
• •The release timing for support is scheduled for 2027.
• •Details regarding LTS upgrades or kernel update policy changes mentioned in the title are not provided in the description.

SIE and AMD announced QSSR, an AI upscaling technology for the standard PS5 that improves image quality.

• •SIE announced QSSR, a lightweight version of PSSR developed with AMD to enable AI-based image quality improvements on the standard PS5.
• •The technology will be introduced first in titles like Marvel's Wolverine, with availability expanding to all developers in the future.
• •Ghost of Yōtei is also included among the initial supported titles.

JERA, Dell Technologies, and RHAELM Holdings signed an MOU to explore the commercialization of AI data centers directly connected to power plants.

• •The three companies signed an MOU on October 1 to formulate a basic concept and explore commercialization for power-plant-connected AI data centers in Japan.
• •The first facility is planned to be a 400,000 kW-class AI data center at the Chiba Thermal Power Plant.
• •RHAELM Holdings Ltd., formerly Sovereign AI, is a company specializing in the construction and operation of AI data centers.

JEITA will host a semiconductor forum at CEATEC 2026, featuring its fifth consecutive year of the Semiconductor Industry Life Game.

• •JEITA will hold the 'JEITA Semiconductor Forum 2026' at the CEATEC 2026 venue in Makuhari from October 13 to 16.
• •The 'Semiconductor Industry Life Game,' held for the fifth consecutive year, will be conducted with enhancements this year.
• •A session for students is also scheduled to be held on the same day.

Technical insights into the cache design of the Snapdragon 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6, a new flagship chip announced by Qualcomm at Snapdragon Summit.

• •Qualcomm announced new products at the Snapdragon Summit held in Maui, Hawaii, from September 22 to 24.
• •The announced products are the Snapdragon 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6 and Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 for flagship smartphones.
• •The article explains the concept of the new Oryon architecture, which speeds up performance by reducing cache.

Janus, an API router for AI models written in Go, was released, enabling the execution of GGUF models via Vulkan.

• •Janus is an API router for AI models written in Go.
• •It features a Vulkan model runner and operates on AMD, Intel, and Nvidia GPUs.
• •It is provided as a binary for executing model files in GGUF format.

Google launched its first advanced chip into orbit for space data centers, outlining challenges to practical implementation.

• •Google launched its first advanced chip into orbit to pave the way for space data centers.
• •Google believes SpaceX's Starship must be launched 1,600 times before space data centers become practical.
• •Technical milestones and challenges for building data centers in space were presented.

Google Cloud announced the general availability release of "Spanner Omni," a large-scale distributed database supporting multiple data models including relational, graph, and vector search.

• •"Spanner Omni" is a multi-model database supporting relational, graph, key-value, vector search, and text search models.
• •It functions as a large-scale distributed database and can be installed on local machines.
• •Google Cloud announced the general availability release of the product.

Memory industry executives predict the RAM shortage will last until 2028, noting that prices for 2027 sales are significantly higher than those in 2026.

• •Memory industry executives predict that the RAM shortage will continue until 2028.
• •The price of memory sold in 2027 is significantly higher than the price in 2026.
• •Amid the ongoing supply shortage, an upward trend in memory prices has been pointed out.