TAIPEI, Aug. 11, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — On August 7th, Artery Technology participated in the D Forum 2026 Microcontroller Forum hosted by DIGITIMES, delivering a keynote presentation titled “AT32 MCUs Drive Edge Intelligence into a New Era.” The event also featured demonstrations of an Edge AI sensing platform, robot joint control, and server cooling fan applications, showcasing the comprehensive capabilities of AT32 MCUs across AI sensing, precision motion control, and high-speed motor drive.

Three Technology Highlights Demonstrate the Advantages of AT32 MCUs

1. AT32 AI Studio Accelerates Edge AI Deployment

Artery showcased the AT32 Edge AI Sensor EV Board together with its self-developed AT32 AI Studio, providing a one-stop Edge AI development workflow covering data collection, model training, optimization, and MCU deployment to help developers rapidly deploy AI models. The platform integrates sensors such as ToF and IMU and can be applied to intelligent sensing scenarios including gesture recognition, motion classification, and equipment anomaly detection.

2. Highly Integrated MCUs Meet Robot Control Requirements

In response to the development trends of Embodied AI and humanoid robots, Artery demonstrated the design direction of high-density control modules through dexterous hand and robot joint control applications, while introducing corresponding AT32 MCU solutions.

This year, the AT32F435/437 series adds a compact 7 × 7 mm BGA100 package, combining high-performance computing with rich peripheral resources, making it particularly suitable for space-constrained dexterous hands, robot joints, and other high-density control modules.

For robot joint control, the AT32M416 motor control MCU integrates CAN-FD, high-resolution PWM, a 12-bit ADC, DSP/FPU, and magnetic encoder feedback to provide high-precision closed-loop control for humanoid robots, quadruped robots, and intelligent automation equipment.

3. High-Speed Motor Drive: Server Cooling Fans for AI Data Centers

The server cooling fan solution integrates an MCU, gate driver, and DC-DC converter within a compact QFN32 4 × 4 mm package to meet the stringent size requirements of cooling fans. The FOC algorithm running on the 32-bit MCU effectively improves operating stability, reduces noise and vibration, and supports startup against reverse airflow, ensuring stable operation under high-speed and high-static-pressure conditions.

Continuing to Expand the High-Performance Product Portfolio

At the forum, Artery also previewed the upcoming AT32F406/408 and AT32F403E/407E MCU series based on the Arm® Cortex®-M4F core, further expanding its high-performance product portfolio:

AT32F406/408 Series：Delivers up to 216 MHz processing performance with 512 KB Flash and 192 KB SRAM, integrating three high-speed ADCs, High-Speed USB OTG, QSPI, and other high-speed interfaces. Designed for high-speed data transmission and low-latency control applications, the series is particularly suitable for high-performance gaming keyboards, game controllers, and USB peripheral devices.

AT32F403E/407E Series：Delivers up to 320 MHz processing performance with 960 KB Flash and 224 KB SRAM, while supporting high-speed communication interfaces including Ethernet (AT32F407E), USB, and CAN. The series is suitable for high-performance computing and complex control applications such as service robots, smart home appliances, smart electric two-wheelers, and industrial control.

AT32 MCU Applications Span Smart Living and Smart Industry

AT32 MCUs are widely used across AIoT, smart home, smart industry, smart transportation, and smart commerce applications, demonstrating Artery’s continued commitment to empowering edge intelligence through innovative MCU technologies and realizing its brand vision of “Empowering Edge Intelligence.”

Looking ahead, Artery will continue to advance Edge AI, robotics, and intelligent control technologies, working with partners to create more innovative applications and accelerate the deployment of edge intelligence.

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Clients can now move USDC more efficiently and manage balances on the Hyperliquid network.

HONG KONG, Aug. 11, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Reap, a global financial technology company that enables financial connectivity and access for businesses worldwide through stablecoin-enabled infrastructure, today announced support for USDC funding via Hyperliquid. Clients can now generate a Hyperliquid wallet address within Reap and send USDC on the Hyperliquid network to fund their cards and payments balances.

In May 2026, Hyperliquid phased out its native stablecoin, with Circle expanding its infrastructure role across the network. USDC is now the dominant collateral asset on Hyperliquid, and stablecoin supply on the platform has nearly doubled year-over-year, reaching a record $7.04 billion in early June 2026, up almost 20% in a single month.

As USDC cements itself as the anchor stablecoin of one of the largest on-chain trading venues, a growing number of businesses already hold or transact in USDC on Hyperliquid as part of their treasury activity. Until now, moving that USDC into a Reap balance meant routing it through an intermediary exchange or wallet. A direct funding rail removes that extra step, letting clients put Hyperliquid-based USDC to work in their cards and payment balances. This launch also expands Reap’s own network coverage for stablecoin funding, with Hyperliquid joining Ethereum, Tron, and Polygon as supported networks for on-chain USDC deposits.

For businesses that already keep working capital on Hyperliquid, this adds a direct path to convert on-chain USDC into operating balances, without routing funds through an intermediary exchange or wallet. That can reduce settlement time and operational overhead, improve liquidity management between trading and treasury activity and day-to-day spend, and support smoother reconciliation by keeping funding flows on a single, supported rail. The addition of Hyperliquid gives clients another stablecoin funding rail, reducing friction for businesses that already hold or transact in USDC on Hyperliquid, and makes it easier for clients to fund their cards and payments balances directly.

“With Hyperliquid now supported in Reap, clients now have a more direct bridge between where they already hold USDC on-chain and where they need to deploy it in day-to-day operations. We are excited to build a simpler, faster path for treasury teams to move value from on-chain liquidity into the balances they use to run their businesses.” said Harris Leow, Head of Product, Reap.

Reap is also exploring additional ways to expand the utility of Hyperliquid across a broader suite of products and solutions over time, from making it easier for clients to fund and deploy USDC held on Hyperliquid, to unlocking more seamless ways to move value between on-chain liquidity and real-world spend. By deepening this integration, Reap aims to create more flexibility for clients while supporting greater real-world utility for stablecoins on Hyperliquid.

About Reap

Reap is a global financial technology company that enables financial connectivity and access for businesses worldwide through stablecoin-native infrastructure. We transform the financial landscape through more efficient money movement by merging traditional finance with digital assets, bridging disparate economies and connecting key financial markets.

Reap was an early leader in Asia to incorporate stablecoins into our solutions. In 2025, Reap processed billions in stablecoin-funded transaction flows. From stablecoin-enabled corporate cards to cross-border payments, we streamline financial operations and empower companies to scale with our integrated business accounts and embedded finance solutions.

Founded and headquartered in Hong Kong, Reap employs 300 people worldwide.

More information about Reap can be found at reap.global.

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A global experiment in Nanjing explores how technology is reshaping the relationship between people and the past.

NANJING, China, Aug. 11, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — For centuries, the Porcelain Tower of Nanjing was admired as one of the wonders of the medieval world. Built during the Ming dynasty, its glazed exterior and illuminated lanterns made it one of the most remarkable sights encountered by travellers to China. Long before photography or social media, it helped shape how the outside world imagined China.

Today, the challenge is no longer how to rebuild the tower. It is how to make it matter again.

The original tower was destroyed in 1856. Nearly 160 years later, a contemporary interpretation was built on its historic site. Today, the new tower is attracting international attention for a different reason. It has become a testing ground for one of the biggest questions facing museums worldwide: how can cultural heritage remain meaningful in the digital age?

To explore that question, the Great Bao’en Temple Ruins Museum launched the Digital Heritage Global Innovator Contest, an initiative supported by UNESCO that invites young innovators from around the world to rethink how people experience cultural heritage.

This year’s brief was unusual. Rather than designing a new exhibition or restoring the monument, participants were asked to rethink a centuries-old ritual: the tower’s nightly lighting ceremony. Could a tradition rooted in history become something that visitors actively shape rather than simply watch?

After two months of online collaboration, mentoring and judging, 36 young innovators from nine countries were selected from nearly 700 applicants worldwide to form nine interdisciplinary teams and develop their ideas on site in Nanjing this July.

Since its launch in 2024, the Digital Heritage programme has brought together more than 1,500 young innovators from 22 countries over three annual editions, creating an international network of designers, technologists and heritage practitioners exploring new approaches to preserving and reimagining cultural heritage.

“The Porcelain Tower has long been a symbol of cultural exchange, and its significance has never disappeared,” says Wang Wenxi, Director of the Great Bao’en Temple Ruins Museum. “Our role is not only to preserve heritage, but to create opportunities for each generation to engage with it in new ways.”

The experiment mirrors a broader shift taking place across the museum world. As artificial intelligence, immersive media and interactive technologies become increasingly accessible, cultural institutions are asking a different question. Preservation alone is no longer enough. Heritage also needs to be experienced, interpreted and, increasingly, participated in.

For Niall Hill, a lecturer at UCL and a member of the Digital Heritage mentoring team, technology is only the final step. “Contestants need to walk through a place, touch it, use their senses and experience it,” he says. “Through those experiences, they begin to imagine how those moments might translate into digital experiences, and how people might interact with heritage in entirely new ways.”

Among the projects, one proposal stood out. Echoes of a Thousand Lights, created by a team from China, Pakistan and Vietnam, transformed the mythical guardians carved into the tower’s glazed archways into interactive companions. Visitors carrying lantern-shaped devices could trigger light and sound responses, allowing the monument to respond as they moved through the space. The project was awarded first prize for its reinterpretation of a historic ritual as a shared public experience.

Other projects approached the question from different cultural perspectives. One installation used participants’ heartbeats to synchronise shared light ceremony between strangers. Another reinterpreted the maritime journeys of Zheng He through an interactive digital landscape inspired by the Grain Tree, exploring historical connections between China and the wider world.

The approach is not without its questions. As museums embrace digital technologies, critics have warned that immersive experiences can easily become entertainment, distracting visitors from the history they are intended to reveal.

For organisers in Nanjing, however, technology is not the destination. It is simply another way of helping people build emotional connections with heritage.

The experiment also reflects a broader ambition. Cities with deep historical roots increasingly face the challenge of keeping heritage relevant to younger generations. Nanjing is using its most recognisable cultural landmark as a place to test new forms of public participation, international collaboration and creative experimentation.

Six centuries ago, the lights of the Porcelain Tower helped shape how the world imagined China.

Today, the tower is doing something different. It is helping museums, designers and young innovators imagine what cultural heritage could become.

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