International Tech News:

1. SK hynix plans to complete the construction of the first cleanroom of its M15X wafer fab by May next year and begin pilot production.

2. Sales of semiconductor (chip) manufacturing equipment in Japan continue to surge. In November 2025, monthly sales exceeded JPY 400 billion for the 13th consecutive month.

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

4. Korea Zinc plans to build an advanced smelting and mineral processing plant in Tennessee with an investment of USD 6.6 billion, supplying 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 Tracker by Node, global Wafer Foundry 2.0 market revenue reached USD 84.8 billion in Q3 2025, up 17% year-on-year.

6. OCI Group’s silicon wafer plant in Vietnam is scheduled to start trial production in January next year and enter full commercial mass production in February, with an initial annual capacity of 2.7 gigawatts (GW).

Domestic Tech News:

1. Leading manufacturers including SMIC, Hua Hong Semiconductor, Vanguard International Semiconductor, and Eastern High-Tech have confirmed price increases of 5–10% starting in Q1 2026, covering specialty process platforms such as BCD and high-voltage (HV).

2. Siengine Technology has officially announced that its 7nm advanced driver-assistance 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 came into effect by the China National Intellectual Property Administration, further strengthening brand protection.

4. The Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics, in collaboration with Fugallium, has for the first time internationally succeeded in producing 8-inch gallium oxide crystals using the Vertical Bridgman (VB) method, achieving a major breakthrough.

5. China’s first open-ecosystem intelligent computing center based on AMD Radeon—the Xinwei AMD Intelligent Computing Center—has been officially launched in Wuxi High-Tech Zone.

6. After years of technical development and market validation, Pret’s LCP film products have officially achieved large-scale mass production and have begun supplying flexible printed circuit (FPC) antennas in large volumes for next-generation smartphone terminals.

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