International News:

1. Dutch company ASML recently announced the successful printing of the first batch of patterns using its first high numerical aperture (NA) extreme ultraviolet (EUV) lithography machine with a 0.55 NA projection optical system.

2. Intel has unveiled a large-scale neuromorphic system codenamed Hala Point, featuring 1.15 billion neurons, paving the way for more efficient and larger-scale artificial intelligence applications.

3. Japan's internet company Sakura announced a ¥20 billion ($130 million) investment in purchasing NVIDIA's first-generation B200 artificial intelligence chips.

4. On April 18, 2024, STMicroelectronics released its annual sustainability report, highlighting its achievements in environmental protection, social responsibility, and corporate governance, creating long-term value for all stakeholders and promoting the company's sustainable development in 2023.

5. Samsung and Qualcomm jointly announced the successful completion of 1024 quadrature amplitude modulation (QAM) testing in frequency division duplex (FDD) and time division duplex (TDD) frequency bands. Compared to the current 256 QAM, the downstream link speed has increased by over 20%, significantly improving performance.

6. In the first quarter of 2024, smartphone sales in India experienced explosive growth, reaching a total of 35.3 million units, an increase of 15% compared to the same period last year.

7. According to Counterpoint Research, global personal computer shipments increased by 3% year-on-year in the first quarter of 2024, ending an eight-quarter decline trend and achieving positive growth. Lenovo's personal computer shipments in the first quarter of 2024 increased significantly by 8%, reclaiming market share, reaching 24% compared to 23% in the same period of 2023.

China News:

1. Recently, the Information and Quantum Laboratory at the University of Electronic Science and Technology, the Tianfu Jiangxi Laboratory Quantum Internet Frontier Research Center, in collaboration with Tsinghua University and the Shanghai Institute of Microsystem and Information Technology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, developed the first gallium nitride quantum light source chip.

2. On the evening of April 18, TSMC issued a statement regarding the impact of the April 3 earthquake in Taiwan. The announcement stated that the overall impact of the earthquake is expected to lead to a decrease of approximately 50 basis points in the company's second-quarter gross margin, primarily due to wafer scrap and material losses.

3. Huawei launched the "HUAWEI Pura 70 Series Pioneer Plan," including the HUAWEI Pura 70 Ultra and HUAWEI Pura 70 Pro pioneer models. Starting from 10:08 a.m., within less than a minute, multiple models of the Pura 70 series on Huawei's official website showed "temporarily out of stock" or "not available for sale" prompts.

4. Nationz Technologies officially released and began mass production and supply of the fourth-generation trusted computing chip NS350 v32/v33 series products.

5. Siemens China and Amazon Web Services (AWS) held a meeting at Siemens China's Beijing headquarters, where senior executives from both sides announced the signing of a strategic cooperation agreement and the establishment of a collaboration entity named the "Joint Innovation Team."

6. Microsoft Research Asia unveiled an innovative model named VASA-1. The model focuses on processing static portrait photos and audio clips, automatically adding voiceovers to characters in the images.

7. SLKOR News: SLKOR's official Douyin account "Bridge Rectifier" video views exceeded 1.3 million, with nearly 10,000 likes and over 300 comments! Meanwhile, business manager Huang Xinkang's video on crystal oscillator timing principles reached a traffic of 500,000.