1. On May 9th, the University of Manchester and the University of Melbourne jointly developed ultra-pure silicon for manufacturing high-performance quantum bit devices. This research achievement has been published in the journal "Nature Communications Materials."

2. Intel has confirmed that Panther Lake is set to begin production, with an expected market launch in mid-2025. This move marks Intel's transition to using the new Intel 18A process technology to produce consumer-grade terminal products.

3. Recently, Luminar, a US-based supplier of LiDAR sensors, announced that Tesla has become one of its largest buyers of sensors in the first quarter, accounting for over 10% of the company's total revenue of $21 million, expected to reach $2 million.

4. The Apple M4 chip has been unveiled, with a transistor count of 28 billion and utilizing TSMC's second-generation 3nm process.

5. It is reported that the United States has further tightened export restrictions on Huawei, revoking licenses for chip companies Qualcomm and Intel to sell semiconductors to Huawei.

6. On May 8th, Honda China released the April sales data, with Honda China's terminal car sales reaching 73,000 units in April 2024, a year-on-year decrease of 22.18%.

7. Rogue Valley Microdevices, a pure MEMS foundry in the United States, announced that its second wafer fab under construction in Palm Bay, Florida, has 12-inch MEMS wafer foundry capabilities.

China News:

1. Xiaomi's router BE5000 Wi-Fi 7 has been launched, adopting the Wi-Fi 7 protocol with MLO dual-band aggregation technology, achieving a wireless speed of 5011 Mbps.

2. At 9:43 am on May 9, 2024, the Long March 3B carrier rocket successfully ignited and lifted off from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center, sending the Intelligent Sky Network No. 01 satellite (A/B) into the designated orbit. The launch was a complete success.

3. Alibaba Cloud recently held the AI Leader Summit - Beijing Station event, announcing the release of the Turing Q&A 2.5 large-scale language model, with some performance surpassing GPT-4.

4. The joint team of the National Information Optoelectronic Innovation Center and the Peng Cheng Laboratory has completed the development and functional verification of a 2Tb/s silicon photonic interconnect chip, verifying for the first time in China the architecture of 3D silicon-based optoelectronic chip, achieving a one-way interconnect bandwidth of 8×256Gb/s on a single chip.

5. Song Shiqiang, General Manager of SlkorMicro and Kinghelm Electronics(www.kinghelm.net), has produced another influential work, "Song Shiqiang's Discourse on the Efficiency of Enterprise Management (Part I)," which has been widely circulated and reprinted by numerous media outlets.

6. In the first four months of 2024, China's total import and export value of goods reached 13.81 trillion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 5.7%. Among them, the export of integrated circuits was 355.24 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 23.5%.

7. Tianhe Optoelectronics released its financial reports for the full year 2023 and the first quarter of 2024. The reports show that Tianhe Optoelectronics achieved significant revenue growth in 2023, reaching 113.392 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 33.32%.