International News

1. SK Materials Airplus has announced a plan to invest 700 billion KRW (approximately 3.7 billion RMB) over the next decade to construct factories for producing Gaseous Nitrogen (GN2) and Clean Dry Air (CDA).

2. Samsung Electronics is set to select TSMC as the foundry for its artificial intelligence (AI) semiconductor products, a decision that may involve several of Samsung's AI chip product lines.

3. Germany's Carl Zeiss is about to open its first innovation center in Taiwan, which, in the initial phase, will introduce advanced semiconductor inspection and analysis solutions using electronic, optical, and 3D X-ray microscopes.

4. In the first quarter of 2024, Huawei’s HarmonyOS surpassed Apple’s iOS in the Chinese market, becoming the second largest operating system in China.

5. Kinghelm (www.kinghelm.net) and SlkorMicro are rapidly expanding and are recruiting a large number of summer interns!

6. The research association "SATAS" plans to lease Sharp's idle LCD panel factory as an advanced semiconductor technology R&D center.

China News

1. Partial data systems of Global Wafer in Taiwan, China, have been subjected to a cyber attack, affecting certain production lines at a few plants. Some orders might be delayed until early Q3.

2. On June 12, the SEMI China Compound Semiconductor Standards Technical Committee successfully held its spring meeting at the Qingdao Haitian Financial Center Hotel.

3. Shanghai Silicon Industry Group plans to invest 13.2 billion RMB to upgrade its production capacity for 300mm silicon wafers for integrated circuits.

4. Luwei Optoelectronics plans to raise 737 million RMB to add two new semiconductor photomask production lines and two new high-precision flat panel display photomask production lines.

5. TSMC's German wafer foundry ESMC plans to recruit nearly 2,000 employees, including a significant number of talents from Germany and Europe.

6. On June 12, Montage Technology released a new product in its Jintide® server platform lineup— the M88STAR5(N) chip for data protection and trusted computing acceleration.