International News

1. U.S. lawmakers have proposed legislation to prohibit companies receiving federal chip subsidies from using Chinese semiconductor equipment in their U.S. facilities, aimed at curbing the influence of China's semiconductor industry.

2. On June 18, at the 2024 IEEE VLSI Symposium on VLSI Technology and Circuits (2024 VLSI), imec showcased CMOS CFET devices with stacked bottom and top source/drain contacts for the first time.

3. In the first quarter of 2024, the global semiconductor market reached $151.5 billion, marking a year-on-year growth of 25.7%. NVIDIA's market share increased to 14.5%, surpassing Samsung and Intel, becoming the new market leader.

4. On June 19, Intel announced that its 3nm process technology, known as "Intel 3," has entered mass production at its facilities in Oregon and Ireland.

5. Recently, Kinghelm (www.kinghelm.net) and SlkorMicro have appointed the Borya Law Firm as their "permanent legal advisor."

6. Japan's Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry plans to provide an additional ¥300 billion (approximately RMB 13.78 billion) subsidy to Rapidus for building a semiconductor factory in Hokkaido, Japan.

China News

1. According to the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission, FAW, Dongfeng, and Changan, three major Chinese automotive state-owned enterprises, collectively used 132 million domestically produced chips in the first five months of this year.

2. Tencent's AI application "Tencent Yuanbao" has been updated to version 1.1.7, adding support for processing lengthy texts up to tens of millions of characters, parsing various file formats, and generating data charts.

3. In 2023, Zhejiang Province's integrated circuit industry chain achieved sales revenue of ¥239.04 billion, a year-on-year increase of 16.91%.

4. Recently, the high-end optical film production base located in the Xinzhan High-tech Zone has officially commenced operations, with structural topping-out expected by the end of this year.

5. Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) and Hongjing Construction have reached an agreement to jointly invest in and construct the K28 factory, expected to be completed in the fourth quarter of 2026.

6. Zhuhua Fengguang is actively expanding into the memory product sector, with several memory chip products developed and submitted to customers for evaluation and testing.