<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>SigPulse — Unfiltered Signals from China’s AI, Hardware &amp; Digital Frontier</title><description>Ground-truth intelligence on China’s AI models, local compute economics, and digital reality — verified on bare-metal hardware, published with reproducible configs.</description><link>https://sigpulse.com/</link><language>en</language><item><title>DeepSeek-V3 on Consumer RTX 4090: The Hard Limits of Local FP8 &amp; INT4 Quantization</title><link>https://sigpulse.com/posts/2026-08-20-deepseek-v3-consumer-gpu-quantization/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://sigpulse.com/posts/2026-08-20-deepseek-v3-consumer-gpu-quantization/</guid><description>Measured on one RTX 4090 24GB: 32B Q4 distills run at 27 tok/s, the full 671B MoE crawls at 1.4 tok/s — and these Ollama/vLLM flags prevent OOM.</description><pubDate>Thu, 20 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>DeepSeek</category><category>RTX4090</category><category>Quantization</category><category>vLLM</category><category>Ollama</category></item><item><title>The 2026 Foreign Executive China Fintech Protocol: Foreign Card Alipay Traps &amp; Digital Border Realities</title><link>https://sigpulse.com/posts/2026-08-15-expat-china-fintech-survival-protocol/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://sigpulse.com/posts/2026-08-15-expat-china-fintech-survival-protocol/</guid><description>Field-tested in Shenzhen &amp; Shanghai: where the 3% foreign-card surcharge hits, where passport KYC stalls, and why eSIM roaming changes compliance.</description><pubDate>Sat, 15 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Alipay</category><category>WeChat Pay</category><category>Payments</category><category>eSIM</category><category>Compliance</category></item></channel></rss>