Chip News丨Google announces signing of agreement with Kairos to purchase nuclear power

❶ Google announces agreement with Kairos to purchase nuclear power

On October 15, according to foreign media, Google announced that it had signed the world's first corporate agreement to purchase nuclear power from multiple small modular reactors (SMRs) developed by Kairos Power. The initial phase of work aims to quickly and safely put the power company's first SMR into operation by 2030, and then deploy more reactors by 2035. (Daily Economic News)

❷Shin -Etsu Chemical enters semiconductor manufacturing equipment

Shin-Etsu Chemical, the world's largest silicon wafer manufacturer, plans to launch a semiconductor manufacturing equipment business as the first step to expand its core electronic materials division. Shin-Etsu Chemical controls about 30% of the silicon wafer market and is the world's second largest producer of photoresists and advanced photomask substrates used to form circuit patterns, playing an important role in the front-end process. Shin-Etsu Chemical President Yasuhiko Saitoh said the company hopes to become an all-round manufacturer in the industry and increase the products it provides to customers, including back-end processing equipment. (Ai Jiwei)

❸Scientists use artificial intelligence to discover the smallest planet to date that is closest to its host star

An international team led by Professor Ge Jian of the Shanghai Astronomical Observatory of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has recently innovated a deep learning algorithm that combines GPU phase folding and convolutional neural networks, and successfully discovered five ultra-short-period planets with diameters smaller than the Earth and orbital periods shorter than 1 day in the star photometry data released by Kepler in 2017. Four of them are the smallest planets closest to their host stars discovered so far, similar in size to Mars. (Cailian News)

❹China ’s generative AI service model has more than 600 million registered users

The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology recently stated that as of now, the scale of China's core artificial intelligence industry is constantly increasing, with more than 600 million registered users of generative artificial intelligence service models and more than 4,500 companies; a group of specialized and innovative companies in the field of artificial intelligence are thriving, their technological innovation capabilities are constantly improving, and the number of patent applications and authorizations ranks among the top in the world. (Global Network Finance)