In the 5G era, Bitcoin mining machines, artificial intelligence, new energy vehicles, and the Internet of things all developed rapidly on the silicon wafers, but the technical foundation at the bottom, as a silicon wafer for integrated circuit manufacturing materials, is continuing to be out of stock. At present, the main production capacity of global silicon wafers is concentrated in the five suppliers, with a market share of over 95%, and there is currently no significant expansion. The supply and demand of the current silicon wafer industry is a rational and healthy state. The production capacity of the five global manufacturers has been booked even from 2019 to 2020.

In July 2018, 24 major excavator manufacturers included in the statistics sold more than 11,100 excavators, a year-on-year increase of 45.28%, and sales reached a record high in the same month for the third consecutive month. In the first seven months, the cumulative sales of excavators exceeded 131,000 units, a significant increase of 58.65% compared with approximately 82,700 units in the same period last year. The possibility of a record high for the whole year was further improved from last month. The sales volume of small, medium and large digging was about 63,000 units, 48,000 units and 2 million units respectively, accounting for 48.2%, 36.8% and 15.0% respectively.

The team led by Professor Thomas Ximel of the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology in Germany has developed a single-atom transistor, a quantum electronic component that uses current to control a single atomic displacement. Single-atom transistors operate at room temperature and consume very little power, opening up new applications for future information technologies. Digitalization has a huge demand for energy. In industrialized countries, information technology currently accounts for more than 10% of the total industrial electricity consumption, whether it is computer processing centers, personal computers, or embedded applications from washing machines to smart phones. system.

Presently, no matter where we are, discussions about the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) are endless. Moreover, for different industries, this trend is manifested in different aspects. For example, Industry 4.0 is a concept developed specifically for production equipment. In the power grid, IIoT is represented as a smart grid; the oil and gas industry's IIoT is reflected in the digitization of the wellsite. Although the different forms of IIoT have their specific representations and processes, the technology and advantages provided by IIoT are roughly the same. While the advanced companies are eager to take advantage of IIoT, it's hard to imagine what it would be like to connect 50 billion devices by 2020.