Australia's S&P/ASX 200 opened down 76.60 points (-0.87%) at 8,769.10 on Oct. 20 (Tue).

Germany's Reflex Aerospace said it will expand European satellite production, supported by a planned investment from NVIDIA (NVDA.O).

At the RISC-V China Summit in Shenzhen on Oct. 19, Alibaba's DAMO Academy unveiled the automotive-grade Xuantie E908A. DAMO said the IP is the first RISC-V CPU to meet both functional-safety ASIL‑B and ASIL‑D standards and that its single-point-fault metric (SPFM) exceeds 90%, an industry first. The academy also released an autonomous-driving and embodied-intelligence product roadmap, saying the next-generation Xuantie C950A targets roughly 5x the performance of current RISC-V automotive products.