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.

Today, Huawei officially unveiled the MatePad Pro 11 2024 tablet computer, and it turned out to be the first device in its category to support two-way satellite communication – it is implemented only in China through the national Beidou orbital constellation.

But that’s not all the features: Huawei calls the MatePad Pro 11 2024 “the thinnest 11-inch tablet” – the device is only 5.9 mm thick (and weighs 449 grams).

The MatePad Pro 11 2024 hardware platform is based on the Kirin 9000S SoC with a slightly reduced frequency: the device scores 1244 points in the single-threaded Geekbench test and 3793 points in the multi-threaded test. The device received an OLED screen, occupying 92% of the front panel area, and support for 66 W charging.

Huawei MatePad Pro 11 2024 is offered in two configurations: 12/256 GB for $600 and 12/512 GB for $670.

Xiaomi is working on a new tablet called Xiaomi Pad 7 Pro, the characteristics of which were discovered in the MIUI firmware code.

According to GSMChina, the device will be equipped with a 10-inch LCD panel manufactured by Tianma. The LCD panel will have a resolution of 1480 x 2367 pixels and will support a refresh rate of 144 Hz. Xiaomi Pad 6 Pro had a size of 11 inches. The new Xiaomi Pad 7 Pro will be a smaller tablet in comparison.

Xiaomi Pad 7 Pro will be built on the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 single-chip system. The Xiaomi Pad 6 Pro used the Snapdragon 8+ Gen 1 SoC. The new tablet should be faster than its predecessor. Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 is used, we recall, in Xiaomi 13.

There are two cameras on the back of the tablet. These are the main camera and the depth camera. On the front panel there is a front camera for taking selfies. There are no characteristics yet

The new tablet is equipped with 4 speakers. Xiaomi Pad 7 Pro will only be available in the Chinese market. The device will be released with the HyperOS operating system based on Android 14 out of the box.

In addition, there is information that the standard Xiaomi Pad 7 will be sold on the global market. The tablets are expected to be officially launched alongside the Xiaomi 14 Ultra in April next year.