Today in China, Redmi officially introduced the new flagship Redmi K70 Pro. This is the brand’s first smartphone based on the Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 single-chip system.

Accordingly, this is the most powerful Redmi in history. In AnTuTu, Redmi K70 Pro scores 2.247 million points – on par with Xiaomi 14 and other flagships on Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 (except for Red Magic 9 Pro). A very large vapor chamber is responsible for cooling the SoC and components.

The temperature of the components is monitored by 9 sensors, and they are located not only in the area of ​​the SoC and battery, but also in the main camera modules. Data from these sensors is analyzed by AI. In general, AI is used almost everywhere in the Redmi K70 Pro (this also applies to scenarios for using the smartphone by the user, and analysis of shooting conditions, and optimization of performance in games), so it can well be called an AI smartphone. Sorry, Samsung.

The OLED C8 screen, jointly developed by TCL and Redmi, is characterized by a diagonal of 6.67 inches and a resolution of 2K. An important feature of the display is ultra-high brightness of 4000 cd/sq.m. In terms of peak brightness, Redmi K70 Pro has surpassed all smartphones currently on the market. But OnePlus 12 will have higher peak brightness.

The main sensor of the Redmi K70 Pro main camera is a 50-megapixel Light and Shadow Hunter 800 optical format 1/1.55 ​​inches with large pixels measuring 2 microns. The module with it includes a wide-angle lens with an F/1.6 aperture and an optical image stabilization system.

The module with a telephoto lens (it provides 2x optical zoom) uses a 50-megapixel sensor, and the third module uses a 12-megapixel sensor and an ultra-wide-angle lens with a viewing angle of 120°.

The Redmi K70 Pro battery capacity is 5000 mAh and supports 120 W charging. Redmi K70 Pro is the brand’s first model with HyperOS based on Android 14 out of the box.

Prices for the version with 12 GB of RAM and 256 GB of flash memory are $460. Redmi K70 Pro has become the most affordable smartphone with Snapdragon 8 Gen 3; other flagships are about $100 more expensive.

Due to more and more US sanctions, China cannot receive the latest AI accelerators and much more, which is also related to artificial intelligence. However, now the US government has concerns that China will still gain access to such technologies, and not just like that, right away to the most productive supercomputer for AI training.

We are talking about the Condor Galaxy system, which in itself is unique and extremely unusual, but we have already written about this. This system is being built by G42 from the UAE. The company is reportedly controlled by Sheikh Tahnoun bin Zayed and has ties to Chinese firms that the US considers a security threat. Including with Huawei. According to the New York Times, the CIA fears that G42’s cooperation with Chinese companies could lead to G42 becoming a conduit for the transfer of classified American technology and genetic data. In addition, China will have access to an incredibly powerful supercomputer.

The bottom line is that Condor Galaxy will consist of several identical installations (CG1, CG-2, and so on), located in different countries. There will be nine of them in total, and only a few will be located in the United States. The CIA expresses concern about four, but does not specify where the four systems will be located.

Let us remind you that Condor Galaxy is a unique solution. Each of the CG clusters consists of 64 modules, with each module actually containing only one chip. We are talking about the Cerebras Wafer Scale Engine 2 (WSE-2) chip, which is the size of an iPad and contains 850,000 cores. As a result, only one CG system has a performance of 4 ExaFLOPS (FP16), and the total performance of the entire supercomputer will be an incredible 36 ExaFLOPS. This is very, very much, however, just today Nvidia and Amazon announced the construction of a Ceiba supercomputer with a performance of 65 ExaFLOPS in the same mode.

As you know, from the moment it became known that supplies of GeForce RTX 4090 video cards to China would be prohibited, adapters have risen sharply in price in China itself, but prices have also increased in the USA and Europe. Now those responsible have been found. At least partly.

There are reportedly unscrupulous sellers who do not sell their RTX 4090 in their countries, but stockpile them for resale to China. Of course, because of the double or more markups, you can make very good money on this. Of course, such actions lead to a shortage of adapters in a particular market, increased demand and, as a result, higher prices. At least this is what sellers in Vietnam do, but probably not only there.

Prices in the USA and Europe have recently risen to 2000 dollars/euro for the most affordable options, and are not going to go down yet.

Let us remind you that Chinese craftsmen began to convert the GeForce RTX 4090 into accelerators for AI, and now they have even created the RTX 3080 20GB and Radeon RX 580 16GB.