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International News

1. Ky aims to enhance its semiconductor equipment business by investing €51.5 million to acquire Easys s.r.o., located in Eastern Europe.

2. IBM is shutting down its research and development department in China and will cut off access for employees in China’s R&D and testing roles by Friday evening.

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

4. Imagination Technologies is abandoning its independent development of neural network processors (NPU) to focus on integrating AI capabilities into GPUs.

5. A group of Intel's veteran architects has founded a new company, Ahead Computing, dedicated to RISC-V architecture innovation.

6. South Korea leads the world in the number of patents filed for low-temperature polysilicon (LTPS) OLED panels 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 Jiao Da Electronic Institute, has improved the high-voltage tolerance performance of the fourth-generation gallium oxide semiconductor for high-voltage and high-temperature applications.

3. SLKOR Micro (www.slkoric.com) and Jin Hangbiao's weekly star award went to Sako Micro's sales manager Huang Rongfeng, who received 200 RMB.

4. Autonomous driving company WeRide will delay its Nasdaq listing plan due to longer-than-expected updates to its transaction documents.

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

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

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