SK Hynix is targeting 2028 to apply High-NA extreme ultraviolet lithography to DRAM mass production and is considering joining an industry initiative to develop 12-inch photomasks, according to South Korea's fnnews. The company has separately confirmed both plans.
Chinese AI chipmaker Enflame will list on the STAR Market of the Shanghai Stock Exchange on September 11, 2026, becoming the last of China's "four little GPU dragons" to go public. Enflame is grouped with Moore Threads, MetaX, and Biren Technology as China's "four little GPU dragons," and with Enflame's listing, all four companies will have entered the capital market.
Germany's Elmos Semiconductor has secured wafer capacity from South Korea's SK keyfoundry through 2037, expanding an 18-year manufacturing relationship to 130nm technology as supply conditions tighten across parts of the 8-inch foundry market.
DeepSeek has opened roughly 150 positions in a new hiring round focused almost entirely on engineering and infrastructure, pointing to a shift from pure model development toward the systems needed to support larger-scale AI services, agents, and computing workloads.
