TSMC is expected to continue using conventional microbump technology rather than hybrid bonding for advanced packaging that connects high-bandwidth memory, or HBM, with AI accelerators, according to materials industry sources cited on September 2. According to ChainCatcher, finer-pitch microbumps are expected to remain in use through the later stage of HBM4 and the early stage of HBM5. TSMC has asked materials and equipment partners to develop bonding and underfill solutions for bumps of about 5 microns, with suppliers in South Korea and Japan already working on the effort. Mass production of 5-micron bumps is expected to begin in the second half of 2028. Current HBM3E bumps are about 15 to 25 microns high, while HBM4 is close to 10 microns. Japanese materials suppliers had previously said it was difficult to guarantee quality below 15 microns. The smaller bump size is intended to address HBM stack height limits and the need for higher interconnect density. JEDEC sets the maximum HBM stack height at 775 microns. In TSMC's advanced CoWoS packaging, HBM stacks assembled by GPU and memory suppliers are mounted onto a silicon interposer through microbumps, while 16-layer DRAM die stacks are completed inside HBM packages by companies including SK hynix and Samsung Electronics. Hybrid bonding, which directly bonds copper pads to enable thinner and denser interconnects, is already used by TSMC on its SoIC platform for logic chip stacking, but HBM still relies on microbumps to connect to the interposer.

Pons said its RWA trading volume on Robinhood exceeded $111 million in the past 24 hours. According to Foresight News, the figure was disclosed in a post by Pons.

According to Jin10, domestic futures main contracts mostly fell at the midday close, with palladium down more than 4%, Shanghai silver down nearly 4%, lithium carbonate and platinum down more than 3%, Shanghai tin and Shanghai gold down more than 2%, and TSR20 rubber and coking coal down nearly 2%. SC crude oil rose nearly 9%, ethylene glycol (EG) hit the daily limit up, methanol and fuel oil gained more than 4%, benzene and low-sulfur fuel oil (LU) rose more than 3%, styrene (EB) climbed nearly 3%, and the European line container shipping contract rose more than 2%.

South Korea's Kospi ended a two-day winning streak as semiconductor and auto shares fell. According to Sina Finance, the index closed down 4.0% at 6,562.72. South Korea's August inflation accelerated less than expected, but core prices rose at the fastest pace in more than three years, reinforcing the case for the Bank of Korea to keep policy tight. According to Sina Finance, consumer prices rose 3.1% from a year earlier in August, above July's 2.8% and below the median forecast of 3.2%, while core inflation climbed to 3.4% from 2.6% in July. JPMorgan said weak market sentiment and likely continued outflows from leveraged exchange-traded funds mean South Korean retail investors are unlikely to buy stocks on a large scale in the near term. According to Sina Finance, analysts Rajiv Batra and Mixo Das wrote that corporate buybacks have become another new buyer of South Korean domestic stocks, while buying from long-only funds has also started to recover. Societe Generale said South Korean retail investors are shifting from leveraged exchange-traded funds to semiconductor-related structured products, reflecting a change in investment tool preference rather than weaker demand. According to Sina Finance, strategists including Rajat Agarwal wrote that although inflows into single-stock leveraged ETFs slowed over the past six weeks, ordinary stock buying remained firm and structured product issuance rose.

According to Jin10, HSBC expects the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) to raise rates in September and in the fourth quarter, with the cash rate reaching 4.85%.

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A Hong Kong court denied a bid by China Evergrande Group founder Hui Ka Yan’s lawyers to use assets under receivership to pay HK$1.2 million ($153,040) in legal bills, according to Bloomberg.

According to Jin10, Polish Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Radosław Sikorski reposted a Financial Times report titled "Russia Secretly Helps Iran Develop Hypersonic Cruise Missiles" and tagged U.S. President Donald Trump, saying, "Putin does not seem to be the U.S. president's friend." He later deleted that caption and reposted it, tagging Trump again and saying, "Putin does not respect the U.S. president."

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Tigermed's A shares fell 1.9% to RMB50.45 and its Hong Kong-listed shares dropped 3% to HK$38.76 in afternoon trade, according to ETNet. Jefferies cut its A-share target price on Tigermed to RMB55 from RMB65 and lowered its H-share target to HK$45 from HK$55. The broker said China's outbound licensing trend is unlikely to materially benefit Tigermed's late-stage clinical trial business because many multinational pharma buyers in China still retain their own clinical development capabilities. Jefferies added that clinical CRO projects typically run for two to three years, so any pricing recovery may take longer to feed through to earnings. It cited projects completed in the first half of 2026 as having been signed during the pricing trough in the second half of 2023. Tigermed's A shares have fallen nearly 11% this year, while its Hong Kong shares are down about 8.6%.

China Evergrande founder Hui Ka Yan's legal team has had its Hong Kong High Court application to use his receivership assets to pay about HK$1.2 million in legal fees rejected on September 2, according to ETNet. The court said the team failed to show that the seized assets were the only possible source of payment. Justice H. Au-Yeung also rejected the argument that Hui could not communicate with his lawyers or discuss his assets, and noted earlier questions over whether his family might cover the costs. The receivers argued they could not seek instructions from Hui because of those restrictions. The ruling is a setback for Hui's legal team, especially after a mainland court ordered the confiscation of his assets last month. Evergrande's liquidators disclosed last year that the group had total debt of about $45 billion and were pursuing about $7.7 billion of Hui's global assets to recover funds. Hong Kong's High Court appointed Evergrande's liquidators last year as receivers over Hui's assets to identify, preserve and safeguard them.

Fable 5.1 and Mythos 5.1 were released less than a few hours ago, and Fable 5.1 has already been cracked! The well-known hacker Pliny the Liberator released a 270,000-word system message, completely exposing the weaknesses of Fable 5.1.

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