1. Infineon has set up an office in Kaohsiung to deepen its packaging and testing cooperation with Taiwan.

2. GlobalWafers has received a subsidy of $406 million under the Chips Act and will build the first high-volume 300-millimeter silicon wafer factory in the United States.

3. Kioxia Holdings of Japan was officially listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange on December 18, with its opening price rising by 0.4%.

4. NXP has acquired Aviva Links for $240 million to expand its layout in automotive SerDes.

5. Qorvo has once again won the "Most Admired Semiconductor Public Company" award for 2024 presented by the Global Semiconductor Alliance (GSA).

6. Two giants in the global chip manufacturing industry, Qualcomm and Arm, will have a fierce confrontation in the Federal Court of Delaware regarding a license agreement involving Arm's intellectual property.

Domestic Tech New:

1. Taiwan will form a "Taiwan Chip Team" to strengthen its local and global chip supply chains.

2. The U.S. Department of Defense has removed Advanced Micro-Fabrication Equipment Inc. (AMEC) and IDG Capital from the list of Chinese military-related enterprises.

3. The large-scale fraudulent lawsuits by Changsha Mitto are still being carried out crazily across the country. The court hearings have been queued up until mid-2025, and the courts are still struggling to handle the standardized, assembly-line-like judgments in batches. Song Shiqiang from SLKOR and Wang Hansheng from Haoyijin, who are long-time victims, are willing to provide legal assistance and evidence for defense for new victims who will surely lose money when encountering Mitto's extortion, hoping to reduce the compensation amount as much as possible.

4. Another silicon carbide enterprise couldn't hold on any longer, and Century Goldlight has entered the bankruptcy liquidation process.

5. Silicon Zhen Company announced that its independently developed QRNG-10, the country's first millimeter-scale quantum random number generator chip, has successfully entered mass production.

6. To ensure the implementation of the project, Supernova Optronics intends to increase its investment by 500 million yuan in the semiconductor photomask production base project.

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