Nvidia's China AI Chip Plan & Sovereign AI Surge

The State of Tech, The European Edition of Friday 21 August 2026


Nvidia builds China-specific AI chip using Groq technology as ByteDance and Tencent place orders

Broadcom pursues over sixty billion dollars in debt to finance next wave of custom AI chips

Sixty-seven countries launch sovereign AI projects in first half of 2026 as Asia-Pacific overtakes Europe

CISA orders urgent patching of Microsoft, VMware and Apple flaws exploited by AI-assisted attackers across forty-seven countries

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