Israeli i24NEWS reports Israel struck Iranian surface-to-surface missile launch sites and infrastructure unrelated to the energy sector.

NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang said the company’s new Vera CPU will use SK Hynix DRAM, and that the two firms expect to expand cooperation over the next year, preparing for larger-scale projects in H2 and 2027. Huang met in Seoul with SK Group chairman Chey Tae-won, SK Hynix’s CEO and SK Telecom executives, and is scheduled to meet Samsung Electronics’ vice chairman and senior executives from Hyundai Motor Group and LG Group. Vera, NVIDIA’s first standalone data‑center microprocessor, targets Intel Xeon, AMD EPYC and cloud providers’ in‑house chips such as Amazon’s Graviton. Huang also said he is in discussions with telecom operators about using telecom networks for AI applications.

Chinese equities pared early losses by midday. Shanghai Composite was down 1.26% at the break, Shenzhen Composite down 2.49% and the ChiNext Index down 2.83% after an open that saw Shanghai fall over 2% and Shenzhen/ChiNext fall over 3%. Oilfield services and oil & gas exploration led gains — Keli Co. +14%, Tongyuan Petroleum +6% — while speed-reducer names rallied, with Fengguang Precision hitting the daily limit, Lude Harmonic +11% and Ningbo Dongli also limit-up. Construction machinery names spiked then pulled back; Wantong Hydraulics +17%. Insurers, banks and automation-equipment stocks showed early strength; MLCC, precious metals, CPO, semiconductors and airport/airline-related names lagged. Combined Shanghai-Shenzhen turnover for the half session was about 1.77 tln yuan, down 109.7 bln yuan versus the same period yesterday. Market breadth: roughly 900 advancers and 4,500 decliners.