International Tech News

1. SK Hynix will complete the construction of the first cleanroom at its M15X wafer fab in May next year and begin trial production.

2. Sales of Japanese semiconductor (chip) manufacturing equipment continue to surge, with sales exceeding 400 billion yen for the 13th consecutive month in November 2025.

3. According to Korean media reports, Samsung will begin mass production of HBM4 chips in February 2026.

4. Korea Zinc plans to build a $6.6 billion advanced smelting and mineral processing plant in Tennessee, which will supply key materials such as copper, gallium, germanium, and indium to the semiconductor industry.

5. According to Counterpoint Research's "Foundry Revenue, Yield, and Capacity Utilization Tracking Report by Node," global wafer foundry 2.0 market revenue increased by 17% year-on-year in Q3 2025, reaching $84.8 billion.

6. OCI Group's Vietnamese silicon wafer plant plans to start trial production in January next year and officially enter commercial mass production in February, with an initial annual capacity of 2.7 gigawatts (GW).

Domestic Tech News

1. Leading manufacturers such as SMIC, Hua Hong Semiconductor, Vanguard International Semiconductor, and Dongbu HiTek have confirmed price increases of 5-10% in the first quarter of 2026, covering BCD, high-voltage (HV), and other specialty process platforms.

2. Xingqing Technology officially announced that its 7nm high-end assisted driving chips "Xingchen No. 1" (AD1000) and "Xingchen No. 1 Lite" (AD800) have successfully entered mass production.

3. Slkor's Chinese trademark registration was recently approved and became effective by the National Intellectual Property Administration, further enhancing brand protection.

4. The Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics, in collaboration with Fujia Gallium Industry, has achieved a breakthrough by successfully preparing 8-inch gallium oxide crystals using the vertical Bridgman method (VB method) for the first time internationally.

5. The first open-source ecosystem intelligent computing center based on AMD Radeon—the Xinwei AMD Intelligent Computing Center—was officially launched in Wuxi High-tech Zone. 6. After years of technological development and market validation, Puliite's LCP film products have officially achieved large-scale mass production and have begun supplying large quantities to manufacturers of flexible circuit board antennas for next-generation mobile phones.