Shanghai-listed firm says new chips will help bring AI from cloud servers to factory floors and industrial machines
2-MIN READ2-MIN ListenIris Dengin ShenzhenPublished: 10:30pm, 22 Sep 2026Chinese chipmaker Hygon Information Technology on Tuesday launched a suite of central processing units (CPUs) for robotics and industrial edge devices, expanding beyond cloud computing and into the fast-growing market for physical artificial intelligence.The firm unveiled its Hygon 1000 series processors, designed to be embedded into physical devices in industrial automation systems such as robotics and factory controllers, enabling computing and graphics processing to be handled locally.Built on Hygon’s x86-compatible C86 architecture, the four-core, eight-thread CPU supports both DDR4 and DDR5 memory.
