International News:

1、U.S. Congress members have proposed a bill to prohibit companies receiving federal chip subsidies from using Chinese semiconductor equipment in U.S. factories to curb the influence of China's semiconductor industry.

2、On June 18, at the 2024 IEEE VLSI Symposium on VLSI Technology and Circuits (2024 VLSI), imec showcased CMOS CFET devices with stacked bottom and top source/drain contacts for the first time.

3、In the first quarter of 2024, the global semiconductor market reached $151.5 billion, a year-on-year increase of 25.7%. NVIDIA's market share rose to 14.5%, surpassing Samsung and Intel, becoming the new market leader.

4、On June 19, Intel's 3nm process technology, named "Intel 3," began mass production at its facilities in Oregon and Ireland.

5、Recently, Kinghelm and SLKOR headquarters appointed the law firm Bo Ye as their "permanent legal advisor."

6、Japan's Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry plans to provide an additional 300 billion yen (approximately 13.78 billion yuan) subsidy to Rapidus to build a semiconductor plant in Hokkaido, Japan.

China News:

1、The State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission (SASAC) revealed that FAW, Dongfeng, and Changan, three central SOE automakers, used a total of 132 million domestically produced chips in the first five months of this year.

2、Tencent's AI application "Tencent Yuanbao" has been updated to version 1.1.7, adding support for processing long texts of tens of millions of characters, parsing various file formats, and generating data charts.

3、In 2023, Zhejiang Province's integrated circuit industry chain achieved sales revenue of 239.04 billion yuan, an increase of 16.91% over the previous year.

4、Recently, the high-end optical film production base located in the New Station High-tech Zone officially started construction and is expected to complete structural topping out by the end of this year.

5、JMC Semiconductor and Hongjing Construction have reached an agreement to jointly invest in and build the K28 factory, expected to be completed in the fourth quarter of 2026.

6、Zhenghua Fengguang is actively expanding into the memory product field, with several memory chip designs already developed and submitted to customers for evaluation.