➀ Anhui's richest man, Cao Renxian, recently invested in Akiydemi Semiconductor, a power semiconductor chip company in Hefei, supported by two academicians.

➁ Akiydemi has received strong support from Hefei and completed a 300 million yuan angel round in 2021.

➂ SunPower, a leading solar inverter company, has invested in Akiydemi, with SunPower's affiliated investment fund, Renfa Investment, becoming the third largest shareholder.

➀ NVIDIA, AMD, and Intel have jointly invested in Ayar Labs, a startup that specializes in optical I/O solutions for large-scale AI workloads.

➁ Ayar Labs has raised $155 million in funding from investors including NVIDIA, AMD, Intel, and GlobalFoundries, valuing the company at over $1 billion.

➂ The company's optical I/O technology aims to redefine AI infrastructure by overcoming the bottlenecks of traditional copper interconnects.

➀ The US-China tension is fostering a tech hub in Southeast Asia with over $100 billion in foreign direct investment in Malaysia and Vietnam.

➁ The rise is driven by multinational corporations, governments, and startups developing AI and establishing chip manufacturing centers.

➂ Malaysia is expanding its chip manufacturing capacity and attracting foreign investment, aiming to become a high-income country.

➃ Vietnam's Bac Ninh province is becoming a high-tech industrial center with over 37,000 new jobs created.

➄ China's tech firms are setting up operations in Vietnam to avoid trade restrictions and access advanced chips.

➅ Singapore's Jurong district is becoming a hub for AI and data centers, with significant investments from Nvidia and Microsoft.

➀ Five new SiC-related projects have been announced with an investment exceeding 200 billion yuan;

➁ Tarq Semiconductors and HCL's Vama Sundari Investments are investing 27.65 billion yuan in two semiconductor manufacturing factories in Yeadon, India;

➂ Shanghai Fuanyuan Technology Co., Ltd. is investing 115 million yuan in a SiC module packaging equipment R&D and production project;

➃ Huaxin邦 is investing in a SiC chip advanced packaging process line in Haikou, Hainan Province;

➄ Powerex has received 2 million yuan in subsidies from the U.S. Chips and Science Act to expand SiC module production lines;

➅ Heraeus has opened a ceramic substrate factory in Changshu, Jiangsu Province.

➀ Hefei's 12-inch MEMS manufacturing line project, with an initial investment of 5.1 billion yuan, has been halted due to external factors.

➁ The project was initially a framework agreement and has not yet been constructed or launched, and it will not affect the company.

➂ There is currently no hope of restarting the project.