Global Semiconductor Industry Updates

1. The first Asia-Pacific Semiconductor Summit and Expo will be held in Penang, Malaysia from October 16th to 18th, 2024.

2. Intel Capital has invested about 18 billion won in DS Techno, a South Korean semiconductor equipment parts supplier, becoming a new strategic shareholder of DS Techno.

3. South Korea's semiconductor export volume in September was 13.63 billion US dollars, setting a new historical high.

4. X-FAB's new generation photodiode significantly improves sensing sensitivity.

5. NVIDIA's Blackwell orders for the next year have all been sold out. An AI company has snapped up more than 100,000 chips in a single order.

6. Shin-Etsu Chemical, the world's largest producer of silicon wafers, will enter the semiconductor manufacturing equipment field.

China Semiconductor Industry Updates

1. The research and development and production project of semiconductor material equipment of Jingchi Electromechanical has completed the basic renovation of the factory building and is striving to be officially put into production in late October.

2. Taichip Micro has released the extremely low-cost high-voltage MCU chip TCHV4018L.

3. The “National Anti-MetInfo Fishing Rights Defense Alliance” continues to report the illegal and criminal acts of Yang Haijun of Hunan Tongsheng Law Firm and Zhang Yuanyuan, the actual controller of MetInfo and his wife across the country under real names. The lawyer department of the Hunan Department of Justice promised to give a written reply to the victims across the country within two weeks!

4. The price of 6-inch silicon carbide substrates in China has plummeted, and each piece will be as low as 400 US dollars, bringing heavy financial pressure to most manufacturers.

5. After the US stock market opened on October 14, TSMC's market value once reached the trillion-dollar mark. The stock price reached a record high of 194.25 US dollars.

6. The president of XPeng Motors said that the EU's increase in tariffs brings pressure, but it will still be committed to the European market in the long term.