International Tech News:

1. According to the Nikkei Asian Review, the 25% tariff imposed by the U.S. on semiconductors will affect Rapidus' plans to sell semiconductors to U.S. businesses and government agencies.

2. SK Hynix is set to complete its acquisition of Intel's NAND business next month.

3. Intel and Samsung Display are collaborating to develop AI-specific backup displays.

4. STMicroelectronics will temporarily halt the development of automotive SoCs and focus 100% of its resources on automotive MCUs.

5. A report from Korea's KISTEP points out that South Korea has been surpassed by China in most semiconductor technology fields.

6. Apple plans to invest over $500 billion in the U.S. over the next four years to open new advanced manufacturing facilities and build an academy to train the next generation of U.S. manufacturers.

Domestic Tech News:

1. Shanghai Silicon Industry plans to acquire equity in Xinsheng Jingtou, Xinsheng Jinke, and Xinsheng Jingrui.

2. Alibaba has announced an investment of 380 billion yuan to build cloud and AI hardware infrastructure.

3. The 2025 Shanghai electronica China is about to open. Slkor Micro (www.slkormicro.com) and Kinghelm are actively preparing, and we welcome customers to visit and communicate at booth N2.729.

4. Western Digital announced the successful completion of the spin-off of its flash memory business. After the spin-off, Western Digital will once again fully focus on its HDD (Hard Disk Drive) business.

5. It is reported that the demand for NVIDIA’s latest Blackwell architecture GPU chips is strong, and the company has reserved more than 70% of TSMC’s CoWoS-L advanced packaging capacity for this year.

6. According to the latest data from Hugging Face, DeepSeek has surpassed 1.5 million large models, becoming the most popular open-source large model on the platform.

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