International

1. The Association Connecting Electronics Industries released IPC-1783-CO2E, the International Standard for the Collection and Reporting of Carbon Dioxide Equivalent (CO2e) Emission Data in the Electronics Manufacturing Supply Chain.
2. IBM plans to release an early research and development process design kit for 7-angstrom stacked technology in the first quarter of 2027.
3. The NBA Commissioner disclosed that the league is jointly developing a smart basketball with a built-in microchip together with Wilson, which can be used to assist refereeing in games as early as 2027.
4. ASML posted a net profit of 5 billion euros in Q3 2026, with EUV orders booked through 2030.
5. Japan's Nikon launched the new-generation digital photolithography system DSP-110 for advanced packaging applications.
6. IDC data shows that NVIDIA shipped 678,000 AI accelerators in China from January to June 2026, representing a year-on-year decline of 44%.

Domestic

1. Yunhan IC Mall entered into a strategic cooperation agreement with Empyrean Technology to jointly explore new models of AI-enabled hardware research and development.
2. Counterpoint Research statistics indicate that Yangtze Memory Technologies captured a 16.5% share of global NAND flash shipments in Q2 2026, surpassing Kioxia and Micron Technology to rank third worldwide.
3. Slkor (www.slkoric.com) has become an off-campus training base for Shenzhen Institute of Information Technology, which was officially inaugurated in November 2025.
4. Technical breakthrough! Professor Zhang Jinying’s team at Xi’an Jiaotong University introduced tellurium into violet phosphorus crystals and successfully fabricated high-quality violet phosphorus-tellurium single crystals.
5. Kingboard Holdings issued its eighth price increase notice within the year. This time, it raised the selling price of laminates and prepreg (PP) using thin fabrics of 2116 grade and below as raw materials by 15%.
6. The Dehua Semiconductor Ceramic Industrial Park project of Lingde Group settled in Dehua County, Quanzhou, with a total investment of 2.6 billion.