International News:

1. The total revenue of the top ten IC design companies worldwide in 2023 amounted to approximately $167.6 billion, with a 12% annual growth. NVIDIA's revenue surged by a staggering 105%.

2. According to industry rumors, Samsung and SK Hynix plan to cease supply of DDR3 niche DRAM in the second half of the year, sparking a buying frenzy in the market with prices soaring by up to 20%.

3. Onto announced its financial performance for the first quarter of 2024, with a revenue of $229 million and an operating profit of $43 million.

4. A report by the Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA) and Boston Consulting Group (BCG) indicates that the United States' production capacity for advanced chips below 10 nanometers has surged, with its global capacity share expected to rise to 28% by 2032.

5. SK Hynix System IC will sell 49.9% of its equity in its Wuxi wafer foundry to Wuxi Industrial Development Group for $349.3 million.

6. AMD's revenue for the first quarter of this year was $5.473 billion, a 2% year-on-year increase, with a net profit of $123 million, marking a 188% year-on-year growth.

7. According to foreign media reports, the United States plans to impose tariffs on Chinese electric vehicles, batteries, and solar equipment, targeting specific industries with new tariffs.

China News:

1. Huawei plans to build the first neon gas purification factory in the Pinnan Industrial Park, entering the trial production phase in the fourth quarter.

2. MediaTek collaborates with NVIDIA to develop AI PC processors based on the Ampere architecture, marking their first cooperation in the PC processor field.

3. The joint team of the National Optoelectronic Innovation Center (NOEIC) and Peng Cheng Laboratory successfully developed and verified a 2Tb/s silicon photonic interconnection chip, achieving the first domestic validation of a 3D silicon-based photonic chip architecture, with a single-chip bandwidth of up to 8×256Gb/s.

4. Empowering training! Mr. Song Shiqiang, General Manager of Sarko Microelectronics (www.slkoric.com) and Kinghelm Electronics, conducts employee training on "Project Management" to foster a learning-oriented enterprise.

5. Recently, Midea Group once again submitted a listing application to the Hong Kong Stock Exchange. Since its listing on the Shenzhen Stock Exchange in 2013, the group has been striving for a Hong Kong IPO. The first attempt failed to pass the hearing, and now they have initiated the second Hong Kong IPO listing plan.

6. On May 8th, the construction of the Smart Manufacturing Incubation Park project for new energy semiconductor wafers with an annual output of 600,000 8-inch wafers officially started in Shizuishan City, Ningxia. The project plans to invest 1.52 billion yuan and achieve an annual output value of over 3 billion yuan.

7. Recently, a research team from the Shanghai Institute of Microsystem and Information Technology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences made breakthrough progress in the field of lithium tantalate heterogeneous integration wafers and high-performance photonic chips, successfully developing a new type of "optical silicon" chip that can be mass-produced.