Nvidia announced that Japan's new quantum supercomputer — designed to advance the nation's quantum computing initiative — will be powered by Nvidia platforms for accelerated and quantum computing.
After the memory market, led by DRAM, began to rebound, NAND Flash has also entered the final stages of its downturn. Customer inventories have been consumed, and with the growth in demand driven by Artificial Intelligence (AI), it's reported that Samsung Electronics' NAND utilization rate has increased to nearly 90%.
Japan's Ministry of International Trade and Industry (MITI) unveils a JPY 72.5 billion (US$480 million) subsidy to back Generative AI (GenAI) development by five local firms, including telecom leader KDDI.
Japanese IC substrate manufacturer Shinko Electric Industries has announced that due to poor sales of its main product, flip chip packaging substrates, the upcoming fiscal report for the fiscal year 2023 (April 2023 to March 2024) will see a comprehensive downward revision in both revenue and profit. This marks the second downward revision for Shinko Electric.
Reducing production costs has been a major task for carmakers as a price war persists in the EV market. According to Nikkei, Honda Motor is trying to produce integrated vehicle bodies with cheaper steel through collaboration with Europe-based steel maker ArcelorMittal.
Intel recently completed the assembly of the industry's first High-NA Extreme Ultraviolet (EUV) lithography equipment and announced plans to start producing 1nm-level semiconductors as early as 2025.
With ASML recently stating that 20% of their recent orders are held by Chinese customers and nearly half of their revenue comes from China, the future operation trend of the world's largest lithography maker can be said to be deeply tied to China.
As the AI boom gains momentum, the High Bandwidth Memory (HBM) sector emerges as a pivotal battleground, with three major memory chipmakers vying to reshape the industry landscape. Despite the sixth-generation HBM4 not expected to enter mass production until 2026, the alliance formulation race for dominance in the AI sector is well underway.
Padget Electronics, a subsidiary of India-based Dixon Technologies, signed an agreement with Longcheer, the world's second-largest smartphone ODM based in China, for smartphone manufacturing.
Nissan Motor said it will leverage the Giga-casting technique to produce its next-generation EVs and rapidly reduce costs. The automaker recently also invited media members to check its pilot lines for all-solid-state batteries under construction.
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