International News:

1. On May 9th, the University of Manchester and the University of Melbourne jointly developed ultra-pure silicon for manufacturing high-performance quantum bit devices. The research findings have been published in the journal Nature Communications Materials.

2. Intel has confirmed that Panther Lake is set to begin production, with an expected market release in mid-2025. This marks Intel's transition to using the new Intel 18A process technology for producing consumer-grade end products.

3. Recently, the US laser radar supplier Luminar announced that Tesla has become one of its largest buyers of sensors in the first quarter, accounting for over 10% of the company's total revenue of $21 million, expected to reach $2 million.

4. The Apple M4 chip has been released, with 28 billion transistors and using TSMC's second-generation 3nm process.

5. It is reported that the United States has further tightened export restrictions on Huawei, revoking licenses for chip companies Qualcomm and Intel to sell semiconductors to Huawei.

6. On May 8th, Honda China released its latest sales data for April. In April 2024, Honda China sold 73,000 terminal cars, a year-on-year decrease of 22.18%.

7. The US pure MEMS foundry Rogue Valley Microdevices announced that its second wafer fab being built in Palm Bay, Florida, will have 12-inch MEMS wafer processing capabilities.

China News:

1. Xiaomi Router BE5000 Wi-Fi 7 has been launched, featuring MLO dual-band aggregation technology based on the Wi-Fi 7 protocol, achieving a wireless speed of 5011 Mbps.

2. At 9:43 am on May 9th, 2024, the Long March 3B carrier rocket successfully ignited and lifted off from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center, placing the Wisdom Sky Net 01 satellite (A/B) into its designated orbit. The launch was a complete success.

3. Alibaba Cloud recently hosted the AI Leader Summit - Beijing Station event, unveiling the TONGYI QIANWEN 2.5 large-scale language model, with some performance surpassing that of GPT-4.

4. The joint team of the National Information Optoelectronic Innovation Center and the Pengcheng Laboratory completed the development and functional verification of a 2Tb/s silicon photonic interconnect chip. It marks the first domestic verification of a 3D silicon-based optoelectronic chip architecture, achieving a single-chip maximum one-way interconnect bandwidth of up to 8×256Gb/s.

5. The latest work by Song Shiqiang, General Manager of Slkor (www.slkoric.com) Semiconductor, and Kinghelm Electronics, "On the Efficiency of Enterprise Management by Song Shiqiang (Part 1)," has been widely circulated, with numerous media outlets reprinting it.

6. In the first four months of 2024, China's total import and export of goods amounted to 13.81 trillion yuan, an increase of 5.7% year-on-year. Among them, integrated circuit exports reached 355.24 billion yuan, up 23.5% year-on-year.

7. Tianhe Optoelectronics released its financial report for the full year of 2023 and the first quarter of 2024. The report shows that Tianhe Optoelectronics' revenue significantly increased in 2023, reaching 113.392 billion yuan, a year-on-year growth of 33.32%.