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Samsung Electro-Mechanics and Qualcomm are jointly developing organic bridge technology for 2.1D packaging, with related development and validation ongoing for over a year. The organic bridge is similar to the silicon bridge used in Intel's EMIB but is made with organic materials and produced using substrate processes to connect multiple semiconductor chips within the same package.Samsung Electro-Mechanics embeds the organic bridge in FC-BGA substrates with grooves, connecting Qualcomm chips and evaluating performance and reliability. Qualcomm is considering using it for large multi-chip semiconductors in data centers and applied for related patents in October 2024. Samsung Electro-Mechanics is also developing this technology in parallel with several other customers.The organic bridge aims for 5 to 7 layers of redistribution layers, with line widths and spacings of 1.5 to 2 microns, and vias of 4 to 5 microns, achieving a pattern density of 500 to 1000 per millimeter between chips. Samsung Electro-Mechanics is self-manufacturing and evaluating samples while also assessing external suppliers and collaborating with Samsung Electronics' wafer foundry for packaging evaluations.

On September 10, Kim Sang-hoon, the head of the packaging division at Samsung Electro-Mechanics, delivered a speech at the KPCA Show International Seminar INSIGHT 2026 held at the Incheon Songdo Conference Center, proposing a multilayer core (MLC) technology direction to address the large-scale and high-multilayer challenges of AI semiconductor packaging substrates.Kim Sang-hoon stated that in the past, the single-layer core (SLC) method, which increased the thickness of a single CCL, led to increased difficulty in processing internal vias and circuits as the core thickened, and the size of the vias became limited. The MLC approach shifts to a combination of CCL and PPG multilayers, or even a mixed structure of two CCLs, which can simultaneously enhance rigidity and wiring freedom, while also allowing for ground or signal wiring to be arranged in the PPG layer. A bonding layer added between the two CCLs can provide more stable support for the substrate, but the process is more complex.Currently, the commonly used bump pitch in mass production is above 90μm, with around 85μm being the turning point for printed fine solder ball processes. The difficulty significantly increases around 80μm, and the 55-45μm range may shift towards metal bumps. Glass cores are another option, offering higher rigidity and lower thermal expansion coefficients, which help reduce warping in large packages, but issues related to fragility and micro-hole plating technology need to be addressed. The substrate must meet signal integrity, power integrity, and mechanical integrity requirements simultaneously, with high-performance packaging substrate layers expected to evolve from about 20 layers at the 90mm level to 120mm and even more than 40 layers.

According to a report by ZDNet Korea on the 9th, Samsung Electro-Mechanics and LG Innotek are advancing into the Intel EMIB-T packaging substrate supply chain, with related product development and testing already underway. EMIB connects chips with small silicon bridges, which Intel previously used mainly for its own chips; the improved EMIB-T is expanding external sales. The next-generation AI accelerator TPU that Google plans to launch in the second half of next year will be the first to use EMIB-T. EMIB-T inserts silicon vias for power transmission within the silicon bridge.Insiders say that Samsung Electro-Mechanics has developed EMIB substrate samples over the years and is currently advancing EMIB-T supply based on the 2.1D packaging substrate concept. Recently, LG Innotek delivered EMIB-T packaging substrates to SK Hynix for sample testing, and both parties are installing HBM on the substrate to evaluate product characteristics.Currently, EMIB-T packaging substrates are supplied by Japan's Ibiden, Shinkawa Electric, Taiwan's Xinxing Electronics, and Austria's AT&S. Ibiden has decided to utilize idle factories to construct a dedicated production line for Intel's EMIB-T substrates, with an investment scale of about 20 trillion Korean won, and it is reported that they have already received advance payments from Google, Amazon, Intel, and others.

The LayerZero research team, in collaboration with Oblivious Labs and researchers from Carnegie Mellon University, has published a paper proposing a new automated market maker mechanism called OTTER, aimed at enhancing resistance to Maximum Extractable Value (MEV).OTTER employs a batch clearing mechanism similar to VCG auctions, making it a dominant strategy for traders to report valuations and budgets truthfully, while weakening the ability of block builders to profit through transaction ordering, sandwich attacks, or injecting false bids.

Recently, Sun Yuchen launched a batch of real-name complaints against the self-media that criticized him. Sun Yuchen filed multiple complaints against several self-media accounts, including Luke Wen Studio and "Luo Serious," on the grounds of "defamation/commercial reputation/invasion of privacy/portrait rights."The complaint materials requested the platform to deal with articles that used qualitative expressions such as "cutting leeks" and reinforced negative personas, and stated that he has entrusted a lawyer to secure evidence.

According to the latest MLCC industry research by TrendForce, South Korean giant Samsung Electro-Mechanics has recently taken the lead in raising prices for OEM and ODM customers for the fourth quarter of 2026, indicating that the MLCC industry has officially entered an upward trend. TrendForce estimates that Samsung Electro-Mechanics will raise the prices of consumer-grade X5R products for OEM and ODM customers by an average of 25% to 30%, in order to suppress order willingness and free up capacity to expand high-end production lines.The high-end X6S products used in AI servers will see an average price increase of 10% to 20% depending on customer negotiations. Japanese manufacturers Murata, TDK, and Kyocera are currently taking a wait-and-see approach, maintaining stable prices, and whether they will follow up with price adjustments will be key to observing whether the upward trend can expand.

On August 21, 3D storage-computing integrated chip company Qianhe Yibang announced that its self-developed global first 4-layer 3D DRAM stacked storage-computing integrated chip successfully returned to the wafer and was powered on, marking the transition of this technology from validation to the engineering implementation stage. This chip adopts a three-dimensional integrated native computing architecture, with data access and storage bandwidth improved by an order of magnitude compared to traditional solutions, while access and storage power consumption, latency, and single data processing costs have all decreased by an order of magnitude.Qianhe Yibang was established in January 2024, incubated by NetEase, and recently completed over 2 billion yuan in Series B financing.

U.S. Trade Representative Tai stated that the agreement reached with Canada will include comprehensive market access for all U.S. goods, commitments to economic security, and digital trade integration.

According to The Elec, Samsung Electro-Mechanics' investment schedule for semiconductor glass substrates has been delayed due to bottlenecks in the reliability assessment of customer prototypes. As a result, the construction schedule for the production line of GlaSSEM, the glass core joint venture between Samsung Electro-Mechanics and Dongyu Fine Chem, has also been postponed, and the timeline for ordering related equipment has become uncertain.The report states that GlaSSEM has failed to communicate the equipment order schedule to its partner manufacturers. Previous orders have been postponed from December last year to March and June this year, and this has happened more than three times. After June, no further schedule guidance has been provided. Industry insiders believe that the main reason is that global communication semiconductor customers have not passed the reliability assessment certification for glass substrate prototypes. Samsung Electro-Mechanics is still producing prototypes at its Sejong plant, and most of the suppliers for key processes required for building the mass production line, such as deposition, etching, laser drilling, and inspection, have already been selected.Since the prototypes need to be remade and resubmitted, the originally planned investment schedule will inevitably be further delayed. Samsung Electro-Mechanics had set a target for mass production in the second half of 2027 when establishing GlaSSEM earlier last month, but during last month's financial report meeting, this timeline was adjusted to 2028, and now the mass production time is expected to be further postponed.

According to the Korea Herald, in order to combat drug trafficking using virtual assets, the South Korean police have established a specialized virtual asset tracking and investigation team consisting of 41 members, and have intensified investigations into drug sales networks on platforms such as Telegram since August 3.In the first half of this year, South Korea conducted large-scale crackdowns from March to June, arresting a total of 5,203 drug offenders and detaining 1,039 individuals; compared to the same period last year, the number of arrests increased by 94 (an increase of 1.8%), and the number of detentions increased by 75 (an increase of 7.8%).

The People's Bank of China Shenzhen Branch, Shenzhen Securities Regulatory Bureau, Municipal Internet Information Office, and Municipal Local Financial Supervision Administration continue to carry out special rectifications, urging local website platforms to strictly implement their main responsibilities and legally handle a number of illegal self-media accounts.Some typical cases include: "USDT Merchant Group Chat," "Gather Together to Play Virtual Currency," "Search for Bitcoin," "WeChat Quick Exchange," "Zhongchain Laojiu," "Medicine Breaks a Good Sleep," "Little Goldfish 9884," "User 0767527971," and other accounts that illegally provided marketing and promotional information related to virtual currency business activities within the country, enticing the public to participate in illegal financial activities related to virtual currency. According to the relevant policy provisions such as the "Notice on Further Preventing and Handling Risks Related to Virtual Currency," the aforementioned accounts have been permanently closed and dealt with by the platform in accordance with the law and agreements.

According to The Block, Michael S. Selig, chairman of the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), announced the establishment of an innovation advisory committee consisting of 35 members, with several executives from the cryptocurrency industry appointed.Selig stated that the committee will assist the CFTC in developing a regulatory framework regarding the role of "breakthrough technologies" such as artificial intelligence and blockchain in financial markets, ensuring that its decisions reflect market realities and establishing clear rules for "a golden age of American financial markets." The committee members include representatives from blockchain projects, such as Vivek Raman from Etherealize, Anatoly Yakovenko from Solana Labs, Brad Garlinghouse from Ripple, Sergey Nazarov, CEO of Chainlink Labs, and Hayden Adams, CEO of Uniswap Labs.In terms of centralized exchanges, executives from Bullish, Coinbase, Crypto.com, Gemini, Kraken, Bitnomial, and Robinhood are included. Shayne Coplan, founder of the prediction market platform Polymarket, and Tarek Mansour, founder of Kalshi, have also been appointed. Chris Dixon from a16z crypto, Vance Spencer from Framework Ventures, and Alana Palmedo from Paradigm are also on the list. The committee also includes representatives from traditional financial institutions such as Cboe, CME, DTCC, Nasdaq, and options clearing companies.

ChainCatcher news reports that, according to market sources, a virtual currency fraud case has been disclosed by the court. An 8-member fraud gang colluded with a virtual currency investment platform, attracting victims by posting low-price exchange information on social media, and impersonating "crypto trading experts" to send forged profit screenshots to gain trust.The gang colluded with the virtual currency investment platform, taking commissions based on the amount of client investment losses, and then carried out a carefully planned scam. Some members posted low-price virtual currency exchange posts on social media and other platforms to "cast a net." Once someone took the bait, other members approached them as "investment experts," befriending them and sending forged profit screenshots to lower their guard.In the end, they induced victims to invest with high leverage, and through malicious market manipulation, caused them to "liquidate," with the funds flowing into the pockets of the fraudsters. In March 2025, the Yangpu District Prosecut

ChainCatcher news, senior officials at the White House stated that Trump plans to impose additional tariffs on semiconductors, pharmaceuticals, and potential critical minerals that are not covered by the new tariffs. Trump will respond to retaliatory measures from other countries to ensure that the emergency order is not compromised. Exemptions for goods from Mexico and Canada that comply with the USMCA will continue. (Jin Shi)

ChainCatcher news, YZi Labs director Ella Zhang shared a set of data on the changing trend of the market capitalization ratio between Meme coins and non-Meme coins: the ratio rose from 2.5% in February 2024 to 5% in March 2024, peaked at 9% in November 2024, then fell back to 7.5% in January 2025, and further dropped to 5.67% in February 2025.

ChainCatcher news, according to Jinshi Data reports, U.S. President Trump signed an amendment to the tariffs on Mexico and Canada, exempting products that meet the "United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement" (USMCA) from tariffs until April 2.In addition, Trump stated that there would be no changes to the tariffs on steel and aluminum. On February 1, Trump signed an executive order imposing a 25% tariff on products imported from Mexico and Canada.On February 3, Trump announced a 30-day delay in the implementation of the tariff measures on the two countries and continued negotiations. According to this decision, the relevant tariff measures took effect on March 4.

ChainCatcher news, according to GlobalNewswire, the publicly listed crypto mining company DMG Blockchain announced that it has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with an undisclosed counterparty to acquire a 10-megawatt data center to support its deployment of the Gen AI strategy. The final agreement is expected to be completed within the next 90 days. Currently, DMG Blockchain has paid a $5 million deposit, and subsequent payments will be made according to the Gen AI computing power purchase agreement.

ChainCatcher news, Vitalik stated that the claim about him holding 3 out of 5 seats on the board of the Ethereum Foundation (EF) is inaccurate. He clarified that since 2017, he has only held one seat on the three-member board.