South Korea's ICT exports decreased by 32% in February 2023, with semiconductor, display, and computer exports declining significantly, while communication equipment exports increased slightly.

OpenAI has released their latest language model, GPT-4, which is more accurate, creative, and collaborative than previous versions and will be used for their paid ChatGPT Plus service, with the ability to receive both text and image inputs, while also warning of its limitations including social biases and illusions.

The Chinese PC market experienced a 15% decline in 2022, but Huawei saw an 89.1% increase in shipments and ranked fifth, while Canalys predicts a stabilizing trend in PC shipments in 2023 with desktops growing by 15% and laptops declining by 7%.

The release of Canon's new i-line stepper photolithography system, the FPA-5550iX, with high-resolution and large-field exposure capabilities, offers versatile applications in semiconductor and advanced display manufacturing. 新闻主体：

The increasing adoption of SiC technology in the development of high-performance electric powertrains for EVs by major automakers has boosted the SiC power device market, with a projected annual growth rate of 41.4% and a value of $22.8 billion by 2023.

The downturn in the semiconductor industry has affected the top ten wafer foundries, including TSMC, Samsung, UMC, and GlobalFoundries, whose revenues are expected to decline further this season due to traditional off-season and environmental uncertainty, with orders being reduced and customers demanding lower prices.

Samsung is set to begin mass production of its third-generation 4-nanometer process in the first half of this year, in a bid to compete with TSMC and win over major customers such as Qualcomm, AMD, and Nvidia, with TSMC already having a 4nm process and a 32% revenue contribution from its 5nm family in Q4 2021, and the competition between Samsung and TSMC for the highest revenue contribution from advanced processes becoming more intense.

DB Hitek plans to spin off its non-wafer chip business in response to a drop in demand caused by the global economic downturn, focusing instead on its core chip manufacturing operations, and aiming to become a pure wafer foundry enterprise in the chip industry.

Google and Microsoft's Korean subsidiaries have started downsizing, offering compensation packages of 6 to 15 months of salary depending on the position and years of service, as part of the large-scale restructuring of global tech companies, with Google having about 40 employees and Microsoft having about 20 employees undergoing restructuring in Korea.

The downturn in the semiconductor industry has resulted in a loosening of wafer foundry capacity, prompting IC design companies to diversify their sources of goods and leading to potential pricing pressure on wafer foundries in the future.