Global Semiconductor Industry updates

1. The Texas Semiconductor Innovation Fund has granted $250 million to Samsung for its semiconductor manufacturing plant in Taylor.

2. According to reports, NVIDIA supplier IBIDEN will expand production of integrated circuit substrates, which are used in generative AI servers.

3. ROHM has launched a two-in-one structured SiC module “DOT-247,” enabling higher design flexibility and power density.

4. NVIDIA will increase its investment in OpenAI to $100 billion to support the construction of new data centers and related infrastructure.

5. Infineon has introduced the 75 mΩ industrial-grade CoolSiC™ 650 V G2 MOSFET series, designed for medium-power applications requiring high power density.

6. Renesas Electronics Japan announced that its India team has completed tape-out of a 3nm automotive chip, and samples are now available.

China Semiconductor Industry updates

1. The Yixing Integrated Circuit Equipment Industrial Park Project, with a total investment of 1.223 billion yuan, has officially broken ground.

2. MediaTek released its flagship Dimensity 9500 AI 5G smartphone chip in Shenzhen. Built on the third-generation 3nm process, it delivers improvements in performance, power efficiency, imaging, and AI.

3. Kinghelm and Slkor (slkormicro.com) announced their 2025 National Day holiday schedule: October 1 (Wednesday) to October 7 (Tuesday), with normal operations resuming on October 8 (Wednesday).

4. On September 22, Innosilicon launched its domestic full-function flagship GPU “Fenghua No. 3” at the Xiangshan Conference Center in Zhuhai.

5. Allwinner Technology has achieved mass production of 12nm products and developed multiple chips based on the RISC-V architecture, which are already in large-scale production.

6. Awinic Technology announced that five of its automotive-grade chips have been included in the “2025 China Automotive Chip Supply Handbook.”