Global News

1. The cooperation agreement on AI semiconductors and infrastructure signed by Samsung Electronics and SK Group reaches a staggering scale of USD 950 billion.
2. Samsung Electro-Mechanics will raise prices of multilayer ceramic capacitor (MLCC) products by 30% starting from August 1, 2026.
3. The 28th China International Software Expo & Agent Innovation Application Conference (Software Expo for short) will be held at Zhengzhou International Convention and Exhibition Center from September 20 to 22, 2026.
4. China has launched independent R&D of immersive deep ultraviolet lithography machines (DUV).
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6. Germany’s Porsche plans to cut around one-fifth of its workforce, amounting to 9,000 jobs by 2035.

Domestic News

1. SST China 2026 China Solid State Transformer Technology and Application Ecosystem Conference will be held at Tongli Lake Hotel in Suzhou on August 6–7.
2. According to the National Informatization Development Report (2025), the added value of China’s core digital economy industries accounted for more than 10.5% of GDP in 2025. The revenue of digital industries hit RMB 39.6 trillion, a year-on-year increase of 8.8%.
3. A special power semiconductor chip production line project with a total investment of RMB 3 billion has signed an agreement to settle in Tianning District, Changzhou.
4. TFME (Shenzhen) Microelectronics Co., Ltd. was established with a registered capital of RMB 1 billion.
5. Suxing Microelectronics released Thor unified computing architecture designed for next-generation AI and heterogeneous computing, as well as Tianheng 1100, a GPGPU processor applicable to embodied intelligence and other AI scenarios.
6. Several of China’s top six mobile phone manufacturers have explicitly rejected price hike proposals from memory suppliers for the coming quarters.