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IT Home, August 8 — Intel announced yesterday (August 7) that it has appointed Dean Jarnac as Executive Vice President and Chief Sales Officer. He will be responsible for leading Intel’s global sales team and strengthening Intel’s relationships with its customers.
Intel CEO Chen Liwu said:
At the core of Intel’s strategy and future success is always putting customers at the center and efficiently driving the implementation of all measures.
Dean is a seasoned leader with deep industry connections and an outstanding track record of building high-performing sales teams. Guided by a customer-first philosophy, a rigorous approach to operations, and extensive experience in the semiconductor industry, he will help us deepen our customer partnerships and accelerate business growth.

【英特尔人事调整：任命贾纳克为首席销售官，效力 27 年的恩斯离职】英特尔公司昨日（8 月 7 日）发布公告，任命迪恩 · 贾纳克（Dean Jarnac）为公司执行副总裁兼首席销售官，负责领导英特尔的全球销售团队，加强英特尔与客户的关系。

On August 7 local time, Intel announced the appointment of Dean Jarnac as Executive Vice President and Chief Sales Officer, responsible for leading the company’s global sales organization and driving customer relationship-building and product market expansion across business areas including client computing, data centers, artificial intelligence, networking, and ASICs. As part of this management reshuffle, Intel’s current Chief Revenue Officer Greg Ernst will leave the company after 27 years in the role.

The loading of courseware at the front of the classroom, programming compilation in the lab, and large-scale deployment across the computer rooms—educational institutions’ requirements for computing devices have never been just “works.” They must be “reliable for long-term use and smart to use.” As the rollout of smart campus construction accelerates, interactive courseware on the teacher side is becoming increasingly complex, while students’ programming practice and virtual simulation experiments are steadily heating up. A CPU that runs at 3.0GHz or higher, has strong multi-core parallel processing capability, has controllable power consumption, and supports long-term reliability has become a key cornerstone for delivering education information technology. Especially for grassroots schools, vocational colleges, and training centers where budgets are limited yet performance is non-negotiable, the selection must balance single-core responsiveness, multi-task concurrency performance, compatibility with integrated graphics, and room for overall system expansion.

At 3 a.m., the data center alarm light turns on. The operations engineer switches between multiple terminal SSH sessions, refreshes the log panel, and runs an Ansible script. At this moment, you don’t need flagship-level compute power—but you do need reliability like a rock: low noise and low heat, strong compatibility, and plug-and-play operation. For IT operations engineers who spend their day working with Linux containers, monitoring platforms, batch scripts, and remote desktops, a CPU with fewer than eight threads is not a compromise—it’s a rational, precise match for the workload. It avoids unnecessary heat and wasted power from high-end chips, while ensuring smooth parallel multitasking, long-running services that don’t crash, and seamless integration with older equipment without errors.

At eight in the morning, the lights in office towers across the city gradually come on. A financial statement awaiting review, three parallel PPT revisions, and video conferencing windows together with instant messaging tools flicker at the same time—every second for an office worker depends on the calm scheduling of the processor and its silent burst of performance. With frequent switching, sustained workloads, and multi-device collaboration becoming the norm, the CPU is no longer a silent component in the background; it is the core engine that determines efficiency and pacing, and influences one’s professional state. We focus on real office scenarios: document layout must respond instantly, spreadsheet calculations need ample threads, video conferencing requires stable integrated graphics, remote collaboration relies on PCIe high-speed pathways, and long hours at a desk are inseparable from a balanced approach to energy efficiency. These three products have been forged from the real needs of millions of professionals as office CPU picks.

　　As the digital transformation of manufacturing moves deeper into uncharted waters, MES (Manufacturing Execution System) production execution systems have become the core tools that most factories use to achieve lean production. Embedded MES workstation computers deployed at each workstation are the key terminals connecting workers, production lines, and back-end systems. During the deployment phase, many factories either resort to ordinary consumer-grade computers as a stopgap—only to face frequent failures within two years—or choose unsuitable configurations; incompatible interfaces prevent proper integration with production-line equipment, ultimately dragging down production efficiency. Today, we will start from the practical needs of industrial scenarios, outline the logic for selecting an MES workstation computer, and recommend mature, well-adapted products in the 2026 market.

Source: Global Times
Recently, the 2026 Intel Cup Undergraduate Electronic Design Competition Embedded AI Special Event (the former “Intel Cup Undergraduate Electronic Design Competition Embedded Systems Special Invite Event”) concluded in Shanghai. With solid engineering practice skills, cutting-edge innovative design ideas, and consistently outstanding in-competition performance, students from Xidian University achieved excellent results: 2 first prizes, 1 second prize, and 1 third prize nationwide. The number of first-prize winners from Xidian University ranked first among participating universities, marking the best performance since Xidian University began taking part in this competition.
National First Prize Winning Projects: Intelligent Training for Engineering—An edge-AI-driven engineering training safety monitoring and guidance evaluation system

On August 7, Zhuoyi Information rose 0.31%, with trading value of RMB 530 million, turnover rate of 3.90%, and total market capitalization of RMB 13.817 billion.
Event movement analysis
Huawei OpenEuler + Huawei Kunpeng + cloud computing + Huawei concept + Internet of Things
1. On August 7, Zhuoyi Information’s subsidiary joined the OpenEuler community to promote the development of open-source systems and firmware cooperation.
2. 2022 annual report disclosure: 2022 was the year in which Bai’ao ByoCore 2.0 was fully implemented. BIOS products based on 2.0 have been comprehensively deployed to domestic chip makers such as Hygon, Kunpeng, Zhaoxin, Phytium, and Loongson. Related reference code and complete machine products from international manufacturers such as Intel and AMD have also been involved; most products have already achieved mass production and been launched for sale.

Robot Frontier (Official Account: robot_pro)
By | Liu Lishan
Edited by | Xu Lisi
Robot Frontier: Aug 7 coverage. Today, spatial intelligence technology company Ommo Technologies (hereinafter referred to as “Ommo”) announced that it has completed a Series A financing round worth tens of millions of dollars. The round was led by Hong Kong VMS Group and a well-known fund, with Kunjun Capital participating as a co-investor. Point Stone Capital serves as the company’s long-term exclusive financial adviser. The funds raised will be mainly used for ongoing technological iteration of the company’s core product, the spatial positioning system, and for building its mass-production framework, while continuing to advance the rollout of the company’s products in partnership scenarios across embodied intelligence, advanced manufacturing, and medical surgery.

At eight in the morning, office building lights across the city gradually come to life. The sounds of typing on keyboards, email notification chimes, and the background audio of video conferences weave together into the daily rhythm of a modern workplace. For office professionals, a desktop that responds quickly, runs quietly, stays cool even after long use, and isn’t expensive to upgrade is far more practical than simply chasing specs. A 65W TDP is the golden benchmark that balances performance, power consumption, and heat dissipation—it means lower heat output, fewer constraints on case compatibility, a longer device lifespan, and less worry about electricity bills. Under this standard, five processors each bring their own strengths, precisely matching office needs at different levels.

The oscilloscope waveform in the late-night lab is still jittering; the compilation logs scroll across the terminal window at breakneck speed—in the world of embedded development, there’s no such thing as “fast enough,” only “a little faster.” When an RTOS port gets stuck due to interrupt response latency, when multi-sensor data fusion repeatedly times out because of a compute bottleneck, when FPGA co-simulation drops frames due to insufficient CPU bandwidth, a stable, low-latency, scalable processor that is compatible with the industrial ecosystem is the hidden key to whether the project can be delivered on time. This isn’t a consumer-grade performance contest, but a comprehensive test of determinism, reliability, long-term supply capability, and the maturity of development toolchains.

Source: Securities Times Network
SoftBank shares suddenly plunge.
On August 7 morning, after the Japanese stock market opened, SoftBank Group’s share price plunged straight down, once dropping by more than 6%. In terms of the news, its latest disclosed financial report shows that the company’s net profit in the first fiscal quarter fell 18% year over year, while pre-tax profit for the SoftBank Vision Fund business declined sharply by 99% year over year.
Meanwhile, rumors that OpenAI’s planned listing has been delayed have further intensified SoftBank Group’s share price downward trend. In its financial report, SoftBank Group disclosed that it has successfully completed a $10 billion marginal loan backed by its holdings in OpenAI equity.

At 9 o’clock in the morning, office building lights in the city gradually come on. A new email has just been sent, and a meeting scheduling pop-up appears. In the background, PowerPoint, Excel, DingTalk, and twenty browser tabs are still open—this is the everyday life of an office professional, and it has never been single-threaded. When multitasking becomes the norm, whether the CPU can support hyper-threading is no longer a footnote in a spec sheet; it’s the key factor that determines whether you can turn in drafts on time in the morning, whether presentations will run smoothly in the afternoon, and whether you can quickly export a segment of 4K video editing before you head home. In the face of complex office scenarios, a truly efficiency-aware hyper-threading CPU that manages power consumption well and delivers stable performance is the hidden productivity engine for professionals.

A midnight triple kill, an unrivaled five-win teamfight streak—during the loading screen, it flickers by in a flash. For gamers, the CPU isn’t just cold numbers in a spec sheet; it’s the underlying engine that determines the decisive milliseconds. It affects whether the frame rate stays stable, whether scene transitions feel smooth, and whether multitasking “cheats” (like overlays and heavy background tasks) stutter. More importantly, it decides whether you can handle the upgrade pressure from new releases over the next three years. As graphics card performance grows increasingly similar, a processor that responds quickly, schedules intelligently, and stays thermally restrained has become the true foundation for an ultra-immersive gaming experience. Especially when players need to juggle live streaming and screen recording/editing—yet don’t want to pay a premium for redundant performance—choosing a precisely matched CPU solution becomes all the more critical.

On August 6, 2026, SoftBank Group released its financial report for the first quarter of fiscal year 2026 ended June 30.
Driven by an increase in the value of its Intel and ByteDance holdings, SoftBank’s net profit attributable to shareholders of the parent company reached 347.33 billion yen. Although it fell 17.7% year over year, it was still well above analysts’ expectations of 148.4 billion yen.
SoftBank’s first-quarter revenue was 20.2 trillion yen, up 10.9% year over year; pre-tax profit was 589.15 billion yen, down 14.6% year over year. Investment gains in the quarter reached 1.86 trillion yen, nearly three times the 486.95 billion yen from the same period last year, becoming the main reason profits exceeded market expectations.

When a motherboard becomes the heartbeat metronome of a complete system, it is no longer just a connector—it becomes the source of performance potential, the landing spot for expansion ambitions, and the ballast that keeps the system stable. For hardware enthusiasts, choosing a motherboard means choosing the upgrade path for the next three years, the loading speed for every frame of a game, and the calm multitasking capability when editing 4K video. They don’t worship parameter lists, but they are demanding about solid power delivery, forward-looking interfaces, and compatibility without friction. They want to enjoy today’s AAA titles smoothly while also leaving room for next-gen graphics cards, high-speed SSDs, and high-frequency memory. Among the realistic options offered by four chipsets—B550, Z690, A520, and B365—rationality and ambition are striking a precise balance.

　　SoftBank Group reported that profit in its first fiscal quarter fell, partly due to lower returns from its technology fund business. However, overall profit still beat expectations because the value of its holdings in Intel and TikTok’s parent company ByteDance has surged.
　　This Japanese technology investment firm said on Thursday that it recorded investment gains of 1.333 trillion yen (about $8.45 billion) on its Intel stock holdings, as well as gains of $2.2 billion on its stake in ByteDance.
　　In August 2025, SoftBank agreed to invest $2 billion in Intel at a price of $23 per share. Intel’s share price has recently traded at around $101, boosting the value of SoftBank’s stake in the U.S. chipmaker.

　　China News Network (Zhongxin Jingwei) Aug 6—According to a report by the U.S. cable news channel CNBC on Aug 6, SoftBank’s profit for the first quarter of its fiscal year came in above market expectations on Thursday, mainly due to a sharp increase in the value of its holdings in Intel shares. In addition, ByteDance’s rising valuation also boosted the performance of its Vision Fund business.
　　This Japanese conglomerate said that for the quarter ended June, its net profit was 347.3 billion yen (about $2.2 billion), exceeding analysts’ expectations. However, compared with the same period last year, this figure fell by nearly 18%.
　　The value of SoftBank’s stake in U.S. chipmaker Intel increased by 1.3 trillion yen. Last year, SoftBank announced that it would invest about $2 billion in Intel, which enabled its investment department, separate from the Vision Fund, to generate a segment profit of 1.05 trillion yen. Over the past 12 months, Intel’s share price has risen by nearly 400%.

Topic: Focus on the U.S. stock market’s Q2 2026 earnings reports
Key takeaways
SoftBank said its stake in Intel, the chip company it holds, recorded investment gains of 1.3 trillion yen (US$8.2 billion).
SoftBank’s stake in TikTok parent company ByteDance has increased in value, offsetting fluctuations in returns from other Vision Fund investment projects.
However, the Japanese conglomerate disclosed that its investment in OpenAI this quarter produced no investment profit or loss.
SoftBank reported its results for the first quarter of the fiscal year on Thursday, with net profit exceeding market expectations. The performance boost mainly came from the massive paper gain generated by its stake in Intel; meanwhile, ByteDance’s valuation rose, which benefited the Vision Fund segment.