"Semiconductor"
- TSMC will start production of 3 nanometer chips in August
- Intel Fab 34 wafer plant welcomes the first EUV lithography machine
"Smart Car"
- Bosch acquires British Auto Driving startup Five
- Honda will invest nearly US$64 billion in research and development, and plans to launch 30 electric vehicle models by 2030
"New Energy"
- BYD Hydrogen fuel cell-related patents have been authorized
- Trina Light energy : The new generation of 210 components increases the single-chip power by 30W
"Medical Biology"
-Changchun High-tech: The application for marketing authorization in China for products in the field of central nervous system treatment was accepted
-Tebao Bio: "Y-type PEGylated recombinant human particles The "Cell Stimulating Factor" project has completed Phase III clinical research
" artificial intelligence "
- DAMO Academy launches a new pre-trained dialogue model, using semi-supervised learning for the first time
-Intel China Research Institute announced edge computing , New progress in government-industry-academic-research cooperation such as smart medical treatment
"Metaverse"
- Sony and Lego will invest US$2 billion in the Metaverse created by Epic Games
-Meta plans to test digital asset sales tools on the Metaverse platform
Semiconductors
■ TSMC will start production of 3-nanometer chips in August
TSMC has recently made a breakthrough in the research and development of 3-nanometer chips. The company has decided to start production in August with the second version of the 3-nanometer process technology. According to reports, TSMC has decided to promote the mass production of 3-nanometer chips in 2022 as scheduled. The mass production locations will be located in Tainan and Hsinchu. Currently, TSMC has initially planned a monthly production capacity of about 10,000 to 20,000 pieces at its Hsinchu plant and 15,000 pieces at its Tainan plant. (China News Service)
Intel Fab 34 fab ushered in the first EUV lithography machine
Recently, Intel Fab 34 wafer fab located in Leixlip, Ireland, completed the first EUV lithography machine This is the first wafer factory in Europe equipped with EUV technology. This EUV lithography machine was manufactured by ASML and was first shipped to Intel’s base in Oregon, USA, and then shipped to Europe. (Taiwan Electronic Times)
■ BOE : Chongqing’s sixth-generation flexible AMOLED production line will go into mass production in 2023
Recently, BOE said in a survey by investors that the company’s flexible AMOLED shipment target in 2022 is to exceed 100Mpcs , the company's Chongqing sixth-generation flexible AMOLED production line will go into mass production in 2023. ( Science and Technology Innovation Board Daily)
■ Times Electric: CRRC Times Semiconductor plans to invest in a silicon carbide chip production line technical capacity improvement construction project
Times Electric announcement, in order to enhance the company's influence in the country's third-generation semiconductor industry, occupy the third place In the highland of the modern semiconductor industry, the company's holding subsidiary Zhuzhou CRRC Times Semiconductor Co., Ltd. (referred to as "CRRC Times Semiconductor"), after thorough research and demonstration, plans to develop the technical capabilities of silicon carbide chip production lines on the basis of the company's already built SiC chip line. Enhance construction projects. CRRC Times Semiconductor plans to invest 461.6 million yuan. (Science and Technology Innovation Board Daily)
■ The agency predicts that the monthly production capacity of global 8-inch wafer fabs will increase to 6.9 million pieces in 2024
The International Semiconductor Industry Association predicts that by the end of 2024, the monthly production capacity of global 8-inch wafer fabs will increase to 6.9 million pieces 10,000 wafers, an increase of 1.2 million wafers compared with 2020. The International Semiconductor Industry Association stated in a report that from 2020 to 2024, 25 new 8-inch wafer production lines will be added globally to meet the strong demand for chips related to 5G, automobiles, and the Internet of Things.(Financial Associated Press)
Smart Cars
■ Bosch acquires British self-driving startup Five
German auto parts giant Bosch Group announced that it has agreed to acquire British self-driving startup Five to accelerate the development of its self-driving cars. Five, formerly known as FiveAI, was established in Bristol, England in 2015. It completed a seed round of financing of US$27 million in May 2016, a series A financing of US$35 million in 2017, and a series B financing of US$41 million in 2020. (Sina Technology)
■ Honda will invest nearly 64 billion U.S. dollars in research and development, and plans to launch 30 electric vehicle models by 2030
Honda Motor issued a statement saying that Honda Motor plans to invest 8 trillion yen (approximately 64 billion U.S. dollars) for R&D, including approximately 5 trillion yen (approximately U.S. $40 billion) in electrification and software technology. (Finance News Agency)
■ Samsung Electro-Mechanics develops high-temperature MLCC for automotive power systems
In order to enter the automotive market, Samsung Electro-Mechanics has developed high-temperature multi-layer ceramic capacitors (MLCC) suitable for automotive power systems. Samsung Electro-Mechanics recently announced that it has developed 13 types of automotive MLCCs that are guaranteed to be used in a 150°C environment. The company plans to provide these products to global auto parts manufacturers. (Businesskorea)
■Lincoln plans to release a pure electric concept car on April 20
Lincoln Motors recently released a pure electric concept car trailer. This new concept car will be the brand's first pure electric model and will be unveiled on the 20th of this month. The company has previously launched a PHEV version of its luxury SUV. (Science and Technology Innovation Board Daily)
■ Xinchi Technology releases car-spec MCU E3 series products with a CPU frequency of 800MHz
Kernel , 4 of which can be configured as dual-core lockstep or run independently; mass production is expected to be achieved in the third quarter of this year. At the same time, the company released “SCCA 1.0”. In addition, Xinchi will launch an autonomous driving processor with a single-chip computing power of 200TOPS in the second half of the year. (Science and Technology Innovation Board Daily)
New Energy
BYD’s hydrogen fuel cell-related patents were authorized
html On April 12, BYD’s patent for “gas storage tank mounting seat, hydrogen storage device and automobile” was authorized, and the authorization announcement number is CN216280654U. The patent summary shows that this utility model belongs to the technical field of fuel cell vehicles, and involves a gas tank mounting seat, a hydrogen storage device and a car, and a gas storage tank mounting seat, in which the gas storage tank mounting seat adopts a push-pull type. Loading and unloading the gas tank, disassembly and replacement are quick and convenient. (Science and Technology Innovation Board Daily)Trina Solar: The new generation of 210 modules has a single-chip power increase of 30W
According to Trina Solar’s WeChat official account, Trina Solar will release a new generation of modules, with a single-chip module power increase of 30W. The power of the Supreme Little King Kong will be increased to 430W, and the Supreme 550W product will be increased to 580W. The product is based on P-type battery technology, with a component conversion efficiency of up to 21.5%, and is mainly targeted at distributed scenarios. Company sources said that the existing 210 battery module production line is compatible, and with the addition of new N-type or other technologies, module power is expected to increase by another 3-5% in the future. (36氪)
■ Canadian company Magna International breaks into SK On battery supply chain
Canadian mobile technology company Magna International, which has established a joint venture with LG Electronics , will produce battery packs for SK On. A joint battery factory between LG New Energy and Stellantis is also planned to be built near the production plant of Magna International, which was also recently selected as the manufacturer of battery pack casings for Ford electric vehicles. (Kechuangban Daily)
■ China’s first megawatt flywheel energy storage device was put into use
html On April 11, my country’s first set of 1 MW flywheel energy storage device was completed at Wannianquan Road Station of Qingdao Metro Line 3 Installation, debugging and smooth grid application.This project was jointly developed by the company's subsidiary Xiang Electric Power and has completely independent intellectual property rights. After the device is fully implemented in the Qingdao Metro, it can save 15% of traction energy consumption. The line network can save 50 million degrees of electricity every year, and reduce carbon dioxide emissions by about 50,000 tons annually. The device has a wide range of applications. In addition to rail transportation, it can also be used in electric energy, petrochemical and shipbuilding industries. ( Securities Times )■ Aluminum enterprise Sichuan Qiya Group has made a big move into the photovoltaic upstream polysilicon field
Qiya Group recently announced the environmental impact assessment information of its subsidiary company's annual production of 200,000 tons of high-purity crystalline silicon project. The project is located in Xinjiang Zhundong Economic and Technological Development Zone. The first and second phases are to build high-purity crystalline silicon production lines with an annual output of 100,000 tons. Official website information shows that Qiya Group is located in Sichuan and was founded in 1989. Its main businesses are carbon fiber, power generation, aluminum oxide aluminum, and electrolytic aluminum production, etc., ranking among the top 10 in the national aluminum industry. Since this year, the temptation of ultra-high profits in polysilicon has attracted many cross-border players to invest heavily. (The Paper News)
■Haide Shares signed an all-vanadium redox flow energy storage battery industry development cooperation agreement
Haide Shares announced that the company has signed a cooperation agreement with China Vanadium Energy Storage and China Vanadium Energy Storage Co., Ltd. China Science and Technology signed the "All-vanadium Redox Flow Energy Storage Battery Industry Development Cooperation Agreement" and plans to jointly invest in the establishment of an all-vanadium redox flow energy storage battery industry development company to promote the integration of vanadium ore resources, high-purity vanadium smelting, and the manufacturing of vanadium-based new materials. , vanadium electrolyte production, all-vanadium liquid energy storage power station construction and other all-vanadium liquid flow energy storage battery industry project development. The three parties unanimously agreed to accelerate the merger and acquisition of vanadium ore resources and the construction of Hubei Province's first 100-megawatt vanadium energy storage power station and supporting 30,000-ton high-purity vanadium electrolyte production line in the near future. (36氪)
medicine biology
■Changchun High-tech: The application for marketing authorization in China for products in the field of central nervous system treatment has been accepted
Changchun High-tech Announcement, Golden Race The pharmaceutical industry received notification from Luye Pharma that its application for overseas production drug registration and marketing authorization for Rivastigmine Transdermal Patch (twice a week), a product developed by it in the field of central nervous system treatment, has been approved by the Drug Evaluation Center of the China National Medical Products Administration. Accepted for the treatment of mild to moderate symptoms of Alzheimer's disease. (Financial Associated Press)
Tebao Bio: The "Y-type PEGylated recombinant human granulocyte stimulating factor" project has completed phase III clinical research
On the investor interaction platform, Tebao Bio responded that the company's The "Y-type pegylated recombinant human granulocyte stimulating factor" project has completed Phase III clinical research. (Science and Technology Innovation Board Daily)
■October Capital led hundreds of millions of yuan in Series A financing of Seho Medical
Starting from the field of neurorehabilitation, Angelai Technology (Hangzhou) Co., Ltd. (Hangzhou), a cutting-edge intelligent robot enterprise, (referred to as "Angelai Technology") ) announced the completion of tens of millions of yuan in Pre-A round financing. This round of financing was led by October Capital, with Shanghai Juyuan also participating. This round of funds will be used for the expansion of research and development, clinical trials and commercial promotion of urgently needed neurological rehabilitation medical products. (Science and Technology Innovation Board Daily)
■Acaso Biotechnology completed an angel round financing of 20 million yuan
Suzhou Acaso Biotechnology Co., Ltd. announced the completion of an angel round financing of 20 million yuan. This round of financing is exclusively invested by Oasis Capital, and the funds will be used for the company's high-throughput 3D microfluidic chip research and development, multiple pipeline research on biological microspheres and drug microspheres preparations, and the construction of the company's R&D center. (Science and Technology Innovation Board Daily)
■ Smart Bud: There are about 88,000 patents related to nanopore sequencing technology worldwide, and China's technology research and development is booming
Smart Bud's latest "Gene Sequencing Frontier Technology Insight Report" shows that global nanopore There are approximately 88,000 patents related to sequencing technology. Among them, the United States is the country with the largest number of patent applications in this field, and the United Kingdom has the fastest development. In recent years, China has shown a booming development trend in the field of nanopore sequencing technology.(Science and Technology Innovation Board Daily)
Artificial Intelligence
■ Damo Academy launches a new pre-trained dialogue model, using semi-supervised learning for the first time
Researchers at Alibaba Damo Academy use semi-supervised learning to inject annotated human knowledge into the pre-trained dialogue model, in human This is the first time in the field of machine dialogue that SOTA (best effect) has been achieved on three international mainstream dialogue data sets: Stanford In-Car, Cambridge MultiWOZ2.0 and Amazon MultiWOZ2.1. The relevant papers have been accepted by AAAI2022, the top artificial intelligence conference. . (Science and Technology Innovation Board Daily)
■ Intel China Research Institute announced new progress in government-industry-university-research cooperation in edge computing, smart healthcare, etc.
Intel China Research Institute today announced the progress of a number of government-industry-university-research cooperation. In the field of edge computing technology innovation and application, Intel China Research Institute announced its cooperation with Nanjing Kirin Technology Innovation Park to jointly establish Intel Intelligent Edge Computing Joint Research Institute, and today announced non-contact sensing and interaction technology, digital human motion capture and other first batch of projects. (Science and Technology Innovation Board Daily)
■ Tencent Cloud WeChat has launched OCR text recognition capabilities, supporting batch identification of nucleic acid testing records
Recently, Tencent Cloud MicroChassis has launched OCR text recognition capabilities, supporting batch recognition of nucleic acid testing records, itinerary cards, etc. Valid information in the screenshot will be automatically tallied to the data management background. According to the official introduction, the recognition accuracy of this capability in specific scenarios is as high as over 99%. A single image can be recognized within 0.1 seconds, and it also supports simultaneous recognition of massive images. (36kr)
Metaverse
■ Sony and Lego will invest US$2 billion in the Metaverse created by Epic Games.
Epic Games company announced that Japanese electronics manufacturer Sony and Danish toy manufacturer Lego will invest $2 billion in the Metaverse created by Epic Games. Yuanverse invested US$2 billion, and the two companies each invested US$1 billion. (Financial Associated Press)
Meta plans to test digital asset sales tools on the Metaverse platform
Meta issued a statement saying that it plans to test digital asset sales tools on its virtual reality social platform Horizon Worlds, which is a key part of its plan to establish Metaspace. Some specific users can use this tool through VR helmet and sell virtual fashion accessories, or provide paid access services to specific content to other users.
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