Global Semiconductor Industry Updates

1. Renesas Electronics has abandoned its plan to use silicon carbide (SiC) for power semiconductor production and will no longer proceed with the planned production at its Takasaki plant in Gunma Prefecture by "early 2025."

2. The Minister of Electronics and Information Technology of India has announced that semiconductor chips using 28nm technology will be launched in India this year.

3. The South Korean government has announced an additional investment of 1.6 trillion KRW to support the AI GPU project.

4. AMD has acquired Enosemi, a company focused on the development of photonic circuits, to enhance AMD's capabilities in co-packaged optical technologies for AI systems.

5. STMicroelectronics has announced the expansion of its "Lab-in-Fab" collaboration project at its Singapore facility, aimed at advancing the development and application of piezoelectric MEMS technologies.

6. Cerebras Systems has officially launched its large AI chip, the Wafer Scale Engine.

China Semiconductor Industry Updates

1. Yisuwei Computing has officially filed for an IPO on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange, aiming to become the first public company focused on RISC-V technology.

2. McDonald's China has teamed up with NIO to launch an AI-powered in-car voice ordering system for its restaurant service.

3. As the company continues to grow, Slkor (www.slkoric.com) has entered a new phase in its brand development for 2025, refining the design of details such as its business cards and logo fonts.

4. Longsys Storage plans to cease production of DDR4 memory modules and focus entirely on DDR5 and HBM technologies.

5. Huike plans to invest approximately 10 billion RMB in the construction of a full-color M-LED new display chip manufacturing base in Shunqing District, with a monthly production capacity target of 1 million units.

6. The DeepSeek R1 model has completed a minor version upgrade, with significant improvements in its capabilities, such as complex logical reasoning and code generation quality, bringing its overall performance close to top international models like o3 and Gemini-2.5-Pro.