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Domestic memory system-level test (SLT) equipment maker Oukangnuo will jointly develop a domestic memory and storage chip testing platform with CHINA'S CPU MAKER HAIGUANG. The platform will use Haiguang CPUs as the host and pair DRAM low-level test technology provided by a leading domestic memory chip maker with Oukangnuo’s self-developed domestic test system. Partners plan a formal release by year-end; the project is in final joint debugging and the product is expected to be mature and available externally by end-October.

烏克蘭總統澤連斯基：歷史上首次，我們聽到俄羅斯的驕傲所在——石油產業——正面臨困境。但石油本身並不是烏克蘭的目標，汽油、柴油，或者工廠和港口本身也不是目標。我們的目標是削弱俄羅斯爲這場衝突提供資金並使其變得更加殘酷和具有破壞性的能力。