German finance minister said without new borrowing Germany cannot defend itself.

Supply-chain sources say Intel has been raising PC CPU prices over the past year and is tentatively planning a further 10% increase in early October. The move, despite a forecast modest decline in the PC market in 2027, signals a priority on boosting gross margins rather than sacrificing price for share. Suppliers warn that using low-margin thresholds to cull products could force some SKUs out of the market; any freed demand may create opportunities for Arm-based vendors such as MediaTek and Qualcomm, especially in industrial PC (IPC), edge computing and IoT where Arm SoCs offer higher integration and lower power consumption.

SuperMap Software said past share disposals by a top executive were driven by a shareholder's personal funding needs and did not constitute a full exit, and that it has not received any new share-reduction arrangements or share-transfer plans from Zhong Ershun.