International News:

1、For strengthening its semiconductor equipment business, Connect Line Harness (Chian Mao Lian-KY) plans to fully acquire Easy s.r.o. in Eastern Europe for €51.5 million.

2、IBM is closing its R&D department in China and will terminate access for IBM China R&D and testing staff by Friday evening this week.

3、GaN (Gallium Nitride) semiconductor foundry BelGaN has filed for bankruptcy, with a Swedish bidder offering €130 million for acquisition.

4、Imagination Technologies has abandoned the independent development of neural network processors (NPU) and will focus on integrating AI functionality into GPUs.

5、A group of senior Intel architects have founded a company called Ahead Computing, focusing on RISC-V architecture innovations.

6、South Korea leads the world in patent applications for low-temperature polycrystalline silicon oxide light-emitting diodes (OLEDs) over the past decade.

China News:

1、New Tai Materials has suspended production due to a partial fire caused by an electrical short circuit on the fourth floor of its second workshop, affecting lithium hexafluorophosphate production capacity.

2、Foxconn Research Institute's Semiconductor Division, in collaboration with Yang Ming Jiaotong University's Electronics Institute, has improved the high-voltage tolerance performance of the fourth-generation gallium oxide semiconductors for high-pressure and high-temperature applications.

3、SLKOR and Kinghelm's "Weekly Star" last week was Sales Manager Huang Rongfeng, who received a reward of 200 RMB.

4、Autonomous driving company WeRide has delayed its NASDAQ listing plan due to the longer-than-expected time to update transaction documents.

5、The Beijing Artificial Intelligence Standardization Research Institute, the first AI standardization research institution in China, has been officially established, marking a historic step in the field of AI standardization in China.

6、Didi plans to sell its smart driving and cockpit assets to Four-Dimensional Intelligence for 500 million RMB.