1. The big flash memory manufacturer SanDisk reportedly raised prices, and all products rose by more than 10% from April 1

According to Kuai Technology, a price increase notice sent to partners by Sandisk, a major NAND Flash manufacturer, shows that the manufacturer plans to increase the price of all products for channels and consumer customers from April 1, with an increase of more than 10%.

SanDisk stated in the notice that it is expectedstorageThe industry will soon transition to a state of supply and demand.Coupled with the recent tariff action, it will affect supply and increase costs.The notice also mentioned that SanDisk will continue to conduct frequent pricing reviews and expect additional gains in the coming quarter.

2.Infineon: It now ranks first in the global MCU market

InfineonIt was announced on March 10 that it now ranks first in the global MCU market.According to Omdia's latest research, Infineon increased its market share to 21.3% in 2024 (17.8% in 2023), achieving the largest year-on-year growth among its competitors (3.5 percentage points).This makes Infineon the world's most successful MCU supplier for the first time in the company's history.

InfineonOver the past few years it has surpassed the market.Since 2015, Infineon's MCU business has grown on average 13% per year, while the overall market has grown only 4% per year.In 2023, Infineon climbed tocarThe MCU market is the first.Now, Infineon ranks first in the entire MCU market and all terminal market combinations.According to Omdia, total global MCU sales were $22.4 billion in 2024, compared with $28 billion in 2023.

3.InfineonAnnounced RISC-V architecturecarMCU Product Plan

InfineonAnnounced on March 6, the company iscarThe industry is the first to adopt RISC-V and will launch a new automotive MCU series based on RISC-V in the next few years.This new family will become part of Infineon's automotive MCU brand AURIX.It will expand the company's existing automotive MCU portfolio based on TriCore (AURIX TC series) and Arm (TRAVEO series, PSOC series).

The new AURIX series will cover a wide range ofcarApplications, from entry-level to high-performance MCUs, are beyond the current range available on the market.On Embedded World 2025,InfineonA virtual prototype is now launched, powered by key ecosystem partners.This is the starter kit for Infineon partners to start silicon software development.

InfineoncarDivision President Peter Schiefer said the company is committed to making RISC-V an open standard in the automotive industry, and in the era of software-defined cars, real-time performance, safe and reliable computing, as well as flexibility, scalability and software portability have become more important.RISC-V-based M, CU helps meet these complex requirements while reducing vehicle complexity and time to market.”

4. CountryChip TechnologyTechnology: Important progress has been made in RISC-V research and development and industrial application

According to Cailianshe,Chip TechnologyTechnology said that the company has made important progress in the research and development of RISC-V architecture and industrial application.In recent years, in order to meet the development needs of AI technology, the company has carried out research on the neural network extended instruction set architecture based on RISC-V instruction architecture, forming a special instruction set for neural network processors, which can support the accelerated processing of neural network algorithms, and launched CRV4AICPU and CRV7AICPU.

In addition, as the leading cloud security in ChinachipThe company's latest extremely high-performance cloud security chip CCP917T, which has been designed and is being verified by chips, is also a CRV7 multi-core processor design based on the independent RISC-V architecture, and will be suitable forAI,cloud computingSecurity, network security and operator core network applications.

5. European DARE starts the project to develop data center-level RISC-V chip

According to IT Home, EuroHPC JU (European High Performance Computing Consortium) announced the launch of the DARE project on the 6th local time. Under the name of this project, all parties involved will develop a number of data center-level RISC-V architectures.chip.

The DAR project aims to achieve digital autonomy through the RISC-V architecture in Europe, aiming to use competitive process nodes to build prototype HPC and AI systems based on industry-standard core particles designed and developed by the EU, and create a complete software stack for these systems.

The first period of DARE contains three brancheschipProject: General purpose processor for general purpose HPC workloads, vector accelerators for HPC-AI fusion, and AI processor designed for AI inference acceleration in HPC applications.