Black Sesame Technologies enters Midea's robotics supply chain. Edited by Betty From Gasgoo | August 19, 2026 18:32 BJT Gasgoo Munich- Black Sesame Technologies has officially signed a framework agreement with Guangdong Meichuangxi Technology Co., Ltd., a wholly-owned subsidiary of Midea, according to a report by Gasgoo Embodied Intelligence. Under the agreement, Black Sesame will leverage its established chip development, production capacity, and supply chain resources to provide domestic chips tailored to Meichuangxi's robotics and home appliance needs. The partnership will initially focus on industrial and humanoid robots, working to adapt and validate chip solutions for real-world scenarios. The goal is to provide high-performance, reliable edge computing power for robotics, while simultaneously addressing chip demands for home appliances and accelerating the substitution of domestic semiconductors across multiple use cases. Image source: Black Sesame Technologies Leveraging its experience in developing and mass-producing automotive-grade chips, Black Sesame is systematically expanding into the embodied intelligence arena. The company has launched its SesameX multi-dimensional embodied intelligence computing platform, featuring the Kalos, Aura, and Liora computing module series. These cover a computing range from 48 TOPS to nearly 600 TOPS, fully supporting the diverse processing needs of service, industrial, and humanoid robots. Centered on the SesameX platform, Black Sesame has forged strategic partnerships in the robotics sector with dozens of industry leaders, including COSCO SHIPPING, Lenovo, and Joyson Electronics. Related solutions have already achieved commercial deployment in various complex environments. As Midea Group's core platform for chip applications, Meichuangxi brings deep expertise in robot product development, smart appliance upgrades, and industrial implementation. With stable procurement needs and mature end-use scenarios, the subsidiary offers a vital channel for validating and scaling domestic chip applications. Looking ahead, both parties will prioritize the deployment of chip solutions in the embodied intelligence sector while expanding their collaborative reach into home appliances. Gasgoo not only offers timely news and profound insight about China auto industry, but also help with business connection and expansion for suppliers and purchasers via multiple channels and methods. Buyer service: [email protected] Seller Service: [email protected]

Hardware USB keys for API token management: A masterclass in overengineering. Lenovo's fingerprint-secured USB drive for API keys is a hardware solution to a software problem. LiteLLM proxy handles key distribution, quotas, audit, and cost tracking - without shipping a single USB drive. A Chinese tech media outlet recently ran a sponsored piece for Lenovo's latest product - the "Token Token" (词元宝), a fingerprint-secured USB drive that stores API keys for large language models. The article spins a fictional story about a company whose API tokens were stolen after an IT staffer shared them in a company group chat. The hero? A hardware USB key that "locks" tokens away from prying eyes. After reading it, one thought comes to mind: this is the textbook definition of overengineering - taking a problem that software solves trivially and wrapping it in hardware to make it look like innovation. Don't get me wrong: token management is a real problem. API key leakage, uncontrolled usage, chaotic key distribution - these are genuine pain points for any organization using LLMs at scale. The issue is that the proposed "solution" demonstrates exactly what happens when a hardware company looks at a software problem. By the time you ship USB drives, a proxy is already running. The article's premise is legitimate: an IT admin has to distribute API keys to dozens of employees, and doing it one-by-one is tedious and error-prone. The standard software answer? Deploy a LiteLLM proxy. Set it up on a single 2C4G Linux VM, create virtual keys, and let users authenticate through your existing identity provider. Each user gets their own key automatically. Zero manual distribution. Total deployment time: under 30 minutes. No procurement, no logistics, no HR tracking hardware inventory. The Lenovo approach: Onboard a new employee | order a USB drive | wait for shipping | plug it in | register fingerprint | configure the client | log who took which drive. Employee leaves? Chase them for the hardware back. Drive breaks? They're blocked until a replacement arrives. Using 2026's silicon to solve a problem that a single configuration file could handle in 2020 - that's not innovation, that's technological regression. "Keys can't be extracted" - and then what? The article keeps insisting that "keys cannot be exported or shared." But here's the inconvenient question: how does a background AI agent authenticate when there's no human around to swipe a fingerprint? Every autonomous workflow - overnight batch jobs, scheduled report generation, CI/CD pipelines, automated monitoring agents - needs to call LLM APIs without human interaction. Either the USB key has a "bypass mode" (defeating the stated security purpose), or it only works for interactive use (rendering it useless for automation). More fundamentally, plain-text API keys on employee machines was never the real threat surface. If an employee's workstation is compromised to the point where an attacker can read arbitrary files, you have much bigger problems than stolen tokens. Real enterprise protection happens at the proxy layer: domain allowlisting, IP restrictions, usage anomaly detection, automatic throttling - all software capabilities that don't require touching hardware. The architecture that was conveniently ignored. Here's what a proper enterprise token management stack looks like: LiteLLM is open source, self-hosted, and costs nothing in licensing. It runs on modest hardware. Integrate with LDAP or Entra ID - the directory your organization already uses. Create virtual keys, bind each to a person or team, set per-minute/per-day/per-month token caps, control which models each user can access, and route requests to the cheapest available model by default. The only thing you distribute to users is a proxy URL and their personal key. Every AI agent just needs a BASE_URL change. Which approach sounds like something a serious IT organization would deploy? Closing thoughts. Lenovo's Token Token is a hardware solution to a security gap that doesn't exist. The real pain points of token management - key distribution, usage quotas, audit trails, cost allocation - are none of them solved by "locking keys in a USB drive." Every single one of them is handled comprehensively by a software gateway running at near-zero marginal cost. This article serves as a perfect case study in solutionism: when your team's best answer is "give everyone a USB drive," what you may actually need is an architect who understands how modern infrastructure works - not a faster supply chain. If you're evaluating how to manage LLM access and token consumption across your team, there are proven, cost-effective approaches that don't involve shipping hardware to every employee.

Lenovo Legion Y700 Infinite with exciting OLED upgrade revealed ahead of official launch. 22 hours ago Highlights. * Lenovo is preparing to launch the Legion Y700 Infinite gaming tablet. * Leaks ahead of the Legion Y700's launch. * Design and specifications of this tablet are now available * This tablet will launch on August 25, 2026. The Lenovo Legion Y700 Infinite gaming tablet lineup was originally introduced in 2022. Earlier this year, the fifth generation of this gaming tablet, the Legion Y700, launched with the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 chip. Now the Chinese tech manufacturer is preparing to launch a successor to the fifth-generation Legion Y700. This next version will be known as the Legion Y700 Infinite, and some details have already started making headlines. Lenovo will launch this version on August 25, 2026, and it'll bring changes to the fifth generation of the Legion gaming tablet. The latest leak about the Lenovo Legion Y700 Infinite gaming tablet is its design, while previous details revealed some of its specifications. Lenovo Legion Y700 Infinite design revealed. The coming Lenovo Legion Y700 Infinite will bring some design changes to the fifth generation. This tablet will be smaller and lighter than the fifth-generation Legion Y700. Its screen size is rumored to be 8.4 inches, and it is said to weigh approximately 310g. The fifth-generation Lenovo Legion Y700 features an 8.8-inch screen and weighs approximately 360g. Cameras remain relatively simple. Unlike the fifth-generation Legion Y700 gaming tablet, the coming Legion Y700 Infinite gaming tablet will feature an OLED display. This display will maximize screen real estate with slim bezels and a punch-hole camera cutout, as revealed in a leaked image of the device. The fifth-generation Legion Y700 gaming tablet features thicker bezels and an IPS LCD screen. Other design changes compared with the existing fifth-generation Legion Y700 gaming tablet are visible on the rear. Despite coming with a single rear camera like its predecessor, the Legion Y700 Infinite will integrate RGB lighting around the rear camera. It'll also include a larger "Legion" Logo on the back and a simpler rear design. The tablet is expected to feature a 50MP rear camera alongside an 8MP front-facing camera. Other Lenovo Legion Y700 Infinite gaming tablet specifications. Lenovo has confirmed some specifications for this gaming tablet, while others have been revealed via leaks. Lenovo has confirmed the processor, storage, and screen size. For its processor, Lenovo has confirmed that this gaming tablet will feature an overclocked Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5. According to available reports, this device, with its overclocked processor, has scored 4,585,844 on the AnTuTu benchmark. Storage on this upcoming tablet is expected to be 12GB/24GB worth of LPDDR5T RAM and 256GB/1TB worth of UFS 4.1 Pro storage. Its 8.4-inch OLED screen has also been revealed to support a 165Hz refresh rate and 3400Hz touch sampling, both being ideal for gaming. For its battery, the Lenovo gaming tablet is expected to launch with a 7470 mAh battery and support 68 W fast charging. Lenovo will keep things simple with this device's camera specs, with a 50MP main camera and an 8MP front-facing camera. Internal cooling to be expected. Housing an overclocked version of the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 processor, Lenovo is expected to provide internal cooling on this coming gaming tablet. Sources have already revealed that the tablet will support the Lenovo CR7 Supreme Cooler Kit to help reduce overheating during use. However, Lenovo may also have built a cooling system into this coming gaming tablet. This tablet is expected to use a 15,000 mm^2 vapor chamber, which is smaller than the one on the fifth-generation Legion Y700 gaming tablet. More details on this device will be revealed in the coming days. The Lenovo Legion Y800 Infinite will officially launch on August 25, 2026. Follow Techgenyz on: Latest Now