Samsung zNAND-O Wants to Run LLMs on Your Laptop — But Edge-AI Storage Has a Long Way to Go

At the Global Storage Innovation Forum in Shenzhen, Samsung stacked the compact 256 TB BM1773 QLC SSD, the PCIe 6.0 PM1763, the industry’s first 400-plus-layer V10 NAND, and the TSV-stacked zNAND-O on one stage. The datacenter hardware is real; the on-device AI promise is still a concept looking for an ecosystem.

The ID.ERA 8X Is Volkswagen’s Most Aggressive China Pivot Yet — But It Arrives Two Years Too Late

SAIC Volkswagen’s first range-extender SUV stuffs an 800 V platform, standard LiDAR, Momenta R7 ADAS and air suspension into a RMB 206,800 family SUV. The hardware is competitive; the questions are range-extender efficiency, software maturity, and whether Chinese buyers still trust a JV badge.

NEURA’s 4NE1 and Neuron AI: A Promising Cognitive Humanoid That’s Mostly a Reservation Deposit Right Now

German startup NEURA Robotics unveiled its Neuron AI perception-language-action model alongside the 4NE1 humanoid, but the robot costs roughly $105,000, ships end of 2026, and the headline laundry demo is still a scripted stage act.