Kinghelm Official Website's "Huaqiangbei Mini Encyclopedia" Column Is Now Online!

Huaqiangbei Museum, photo by a Kinghelm reporter

International Tech News:

1. Intel announced exclusive mass production of 300mm indium phosphide silicon photonic wafers, with cumulative shipments exceeding 8 million optical transceivers and 32 million integrated lasers.

2. The global market share of Chinese CMOS image sensor (CIS) companies has risen from 22% in 2023 to 31% in 2025. OmniVision Group, with a 13% share, has surpassed Samsung for the first time to become the world’s second-largest CIS supplier.

3. As AI moves from training to inference and Agentic AI, KV cache, long context, and large-scale data lakes are shifting pressure from compute to memory and storage.

4. China’s DAMO Academy showcased new progress by C950 in multi-core interconnect, AI inference, and server Java, and released the automotive-enhanced processor IP XuanTie E908A.

5. Kinghelm (www.kinghelm.net) has launched the “Huaqiangbei Mini Encyclopedia” column. Ten anti-fraud articles, including “Huaqiangbei Mini Encyclopedia: Exposing the ‘White Pigeon Scam’ in Huaqiangbei Fraud Prevention,” will be released successively. Mr. Song Shiqiang of Huaqiangbei hopes to purify Huaqiangbei’s business environment so that practitioners and consumers will be less likely to be deceived.

6. Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan said the company’s large-scale restructuring is about 80% complete.

Domestic Tech News:

1. Yuwei Semiconductor exhibited its new online atomic force microscope (AFM) product, APEX-X1.

2. Recently, Mingxin Qirui, an intelligent compute-in-memory chip developer, secured RMB 400 million in Series A funding.

3. Guoen Co., Ltd. acquired 80% equity of Sichuan Zhongfuneng New Materials Technology Co., Ltd. for RMB 1.504 billion, officially entering the high-barrier electronic specialty gas sector.

4. China has established a RMB 60 billion national AI industry investment fund and has invested in a number of high-quality projects.

5. Xi’an Eswin achieved revenue of RMB 1.062 billion in Q3 2026, up 68.50% year on year; net profit attributable to shareholders was RMB 441 million, up 302.55% year on year.

6. Piotech plans to acquire a controlling stake in PVD equipment manufacturer Wuxi Shangji and related assets for RMB 2.5 billion.