International News:

1. A Japanese company has developed the world’s first 6G device, and an official press release from developer DOCOMO shared more details about the 6G project.

2. SEMI recently released a report stating that global silicon wafer shipments in the first quarter of 2024 dropped 5.4% from the previous quarter to 2.834 billion square inches, a 13.2% decrease from 3.265 billion square inches in the same period last year.

3. MediaTek Chairman Cai Mingjie won the IEEE Robert N. Noyce Medal (Robert N. Noyce Medal), known as the "Nobel Prize in the Semiconductor Industry" on November 29, 2023, which is the highest personal honor of the IEEE Society. On May 3, 2024, the award ceremony was held in Boston, USA. Cai Mingjie went to the United States to receive the medal.

4. According to news on April 26, in the first quarter earnings conference call, Intel stated that it plans to release its own processor products based on the Intel 18A process in the middle of next year.

5. Data released by South Korea’s Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy on May 1 showed that South Korea’s semiconductor exports increased by 56.1% year-on-year in April. South Korea's exports to the United States reached a record $11.4 billion in April.

6. Spotify and Apple once again clashed over commission issues in Europe. Apple rejected Spotify’s second update after the new European regulations came into effect, and Spotify expressed strong dissatisfaction with this.

7. According to foreign media reports, Tesla recently demonstrated its fully autonomous driving FSD technology in Germany. This is also the first official appearance of FSD in Europe.

China News:

1. The construction of the National Supercomputing Internet will be officially launched in April 2023. At present, more than 200 application, data, model and other service providers have settled on the National Supercomputing Internet and provide more than 3,200 products.

2. On May 2, wafer foundry giant Power Semiconductor held the opening ceremony of Taiwan's new Tongluo plant P5. Chairman Huang Chongren said that the new Tongluo plant is a 12-inch wafer fab with a total investment of more than NT$300 billion. yuan (approximately 67.2 billion yuan)

3. The Japanese investigation company Fomalhaut Techno Solutions released a disassembly report on Huawei’s Pura70 series and found that more than 90% of the components of this series of mobile phones are made in China.

4. Huawei released an internal personnel adjustment document, announcing that Yu Chengdong will step down as CEO of Huawei Terminal BG and will still retain the position of Chairman of Terminal BG.

5. In the Chinese automobile market sales in the first and second weeks of April, the penetration rate of new energy vehicles exceeded 50% for the first time, ushering in a new turning point in the development of the industry.

6. As of April 29, 214 A-share semiconductor companies have disclosed their 2023 annual reports, and more than 40% of the companies have experienced year-on-year revenue declines. In terms of profitability, 134 companies saw a year-on-year decrease in net profits attributable to their parent companies, accounting for 62.62%, or more than 60%.

7. According to news on April 29, at the recent 2024 Zhongguancun Forum Annual Meeting, the world’s first general intelligent human “Tongtong” developed by the Beijing Institute of General Artificial Intelligence was officially unveiled.

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