Global Semiconductor Industry Updates

1. Vietnam plans to become a major global player in the semiconductor industry by 2050. It is expected to build three wafer foundries and 20 packaging and testing factories before 2050.

2. The American consulting company Jacobs will be responsible for designing the Indian OSAT packaging factory and promoting Tata to achieve a wafer production capacity of 50,000 pieces per month.

3. Many Japanese enterprises are entering the market of 8-inch bonded silicon carbide substrates, such as Sicoxs Coparation and Tokai Carbon.

4. iPhone 16 will face a ban in Indonesia as it has not yet passed the TKDN certification.

5. The U.S. Department of Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has commissioned Raytheon to develop synthetic diamond and aluminum nitride semiconductors.

6. On October 24, Samsung will hold the "2024 Foundry Forum in China" in cooperation with Arm and Groq.

China Semiconductor Industry Updates

1. The high-end semiconductor power module ceramic substrate R&D and manufacturing project with a total planned investment of 100 million U.S. dollars by Rogers opened in Suzhou Industrial Park.

2. GTI in 15 days successfully delivered the first Stocker wafer storage vertical warehouse, which is an important breakthrough in the development of domestic AMHS technology.

3. On February 22, 2024, the Intellectual Property Tribunal of the Supreme People's Court released 100 typical cases in the five years since its establishment. Case No. 88, the Changsha MetInfo case, is defined as fishing for rights protection. The relevant case numbers are (2022) Zui Gao Fa Zhi Min Zhong No. 2196, 2205, 2476, and 2495. This case has been selected into the people's court case database. Victims of the MetInfo case and their attorneys can also follow the official account of the Intellectual Property Tribunal of the Supreme People's Court to consult!

4. After TSMC acquired Innolux's Tainan LCD panel factory, it accelerated the transformation into an advanced packaging factory of CoWoS.

5. Three semiconductor listed companies, Wenyee Technology, Zhizheng Co., Ltd., and Jingheng Xidao, a subsidiary of CSUC, disclosed merger and reorganization or asset injection behaviors.

6. Chipmore Semiconductor under Great Wall Motor signed a strategic partnership agreement for vehicle-mounted power modules with ROHM centered on SiC.