Global Semiconductor Industry Updates

1. Continental Group has established a semiconductor division and partnered with GlobalFoundries to design its own automotive chips.

2. Startup Snowcap Compute has raised $23 million in funding and announced that former Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger has joined its board of directors.

3. Samsung's wafer foundry division is reportedly delaying the construction of its planned 1.4nm test line, shifting focus and investment to the 2nm process, which is set for mass production by the end of this year.

4. Hanmi Semiconductor has started supplying thermal compression bonding machines to Chinese semiconductor companies.

5. Chip manufacturer Wolfspeed has announced plans to complete judicial reorganization and resume normal operations in the third quarter of 2025, having secured $270 million in new financing.

6. TDK Corporation has announced the acquisition of power-related assets from QE1 Corporation.

China Semiconductor Industry Updates

1. Canaan will cease non-core AI semiconductor business to focus on core cryptocurrency-related operations, including Bitcoin mining machine sales, self-mining, and consumer mining products.

2. The 2025 World Manufacturing Conference is scheduled to be held in Anhui, China, from September 20–23.

3. Students from Tsinghua University and Shenzhen International Exchange College have visited Slkor's flagship store located in Huaqiangbei for research!

4. 《New Fortune》 has released its "Wealth Creation List," with the total market value of the 500 listed entrepreneurial families reaching 13.7 trillion yuan. ByteDance's Zhang Yiming tops the list with a stock value of 481.57 billion yuan, while DeepSeek's Liang Wenfeng enters the top ten.

5. Shenzhen Guanggu Technology has launched a glass-based, dual-four-core 3D waveguide chip, specifically designed for data center 800G/1.6T multi-core optical modules and CPO optical engines.

6. Fanlian Xinan has made its full range of self-controlled EDA tools, including five tools such as multi-FPGA prototype validation systems, available for free trial.