International

1. According to Economic Daily, prices for a full range of silicon wafers including 6-inch, 8-inch and 12-inch products have been raised simultaneously, with an expected starting price increase of 10%.
2. Nexperia China sees explosive capacity for its 12-inch wafers, shipping 17,919,236 components across all channels within 24 hours.
3. Japan will inject an additional 150 billion yen into Rapidus to push for mass production of 2-nm chips in 2027.
4. Samsung Display plans to invest in building the flexible OLED A7 factory, which is scheduled to start construction next year.
5. Anthropic has hired former Google chip executive Amir Salek to co-design models and chips with the Claude team.
6. NVIDIA raises prices of AI servers by more than 15%, mainly covering the Vera Rubin and Grace Blackwell chip platforms. The price hike will take effect in early 2027.

Domestic

1. Montage Technology’s Retimer chip has been officially included in the PCI-SIG vendor list.
2. Qianhe Yibang’s first self-developed 4-layer 3D DRAM stacked computing-in-memory chip has returned from fabrication and been successfully powered-on.
3. Research on Huaqiangbei Counterfeit Mobile Phones (Part II), the landmark work of Song Shiqiang, General Manager of Slkor , is about to be released.
4. The cumulative shipment of the 8M version of ZT-Memory’s first-generation memory product has exceeded 600 million units.
5. On August 24, Xiaomi unveiled three chips, namely Xuanjie O3, Xuanjie O100 and Xuanjie D100, targeting mobile SoC, on-device AI acceleration and intelligent driving scenarios respectively.
6. BOE and 3M have jointly built a laboratory to tackle display technologies such as seamless flexible foldable screens.