Samsung Electronics announced on the 17th that semiconductor department (DS) executives held an emergency meeting and decided to freeze the salaries of executives below the president。This is the first time the company has frozen executive pay since 2015.。Samsung Electronics explained: "Management and executives have reached a consensus that there is an urgent need to take special measures and lead by example to deal with the deteriorating business performance."。Samsung Electronics DS division accumulated a loss of more than 12 trillion won in the third quarter of last year。Industry expects cumulative operating loss of about 13 trillion won last year, record loss。

On November 30, AMD officially announced that it has opened its largest global design center "AMD Technostar" in Bangalore, India on November 28, local time. The park plans to hire about 3,000 engineers in the next few years, focusing on the design and development of semiconductor technology, including 3D stacking, artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning and other projects。Jaya Jagadish, head of AMD India, said: "The Indian Design Centre was established in 2004 with only a handful of staff.。Today, 25% of AMD's global workforce is based in India and supports AMD's leading product development, PC and embedded customers in data centers, gaming and more.。This new facility marks the next milestone in our growth journey and we will be a significant contributor to semiconductor advancements.。"

Recently, TSMC founder Zhang Zhongmou publicly stated that it is almost impossible for the U.S. semiconductor industry to be independent.。Zhang Zhongmou said that it is simply impossible for the United States to re-establish capacity (scale) like TSMC, at least not in the short term.。Talking about the U.S. Chip Act, Chang said that the amount of investment that attracted TSMC to set up plants in the U.S. was $52 billion, of which $39 billion was subsidized by the U.S. government, but that was the total amount of subsidies for many years.。While TSMC invests an average of $30 billion a year, or more, "can this be interpreted as a relatively small amount of investment in the United States?"。Zhang Zhongmou said that whether it is the U.S. Chip Act or other bills, "I think it is quite wasteful."。"If the United States thinks it can get into the world's most sophisticated chipmaking market by spending money, it's naive."。He said that semiconductor chip manufacturing is extremely complex, requires a lot of labor, and pay attention to the quality of assembly。"Zhang Zhongmou said。