Mars Finance News: Investors should focus on the following pre-market US stock market headlines. 1. Futures for the three major US stock index contracts fell across the board. Dow Jones index futures fell 0.30%, S&P 500 index futures fell 0.31%, and Nasdaq 100 index futures fell 0.18%. 2. International oil prices rose collectively. WTI crude oil futures rose 3.47% to 86.292 USD per barrel; Brent crude oil futures rose 3.20% to 90.919 USD per barrel. According to the news, Trump said the United States will respond to an incident in which US forces were attacked by Iran. 3. International spot gold and silver prices saw mixed moves. Spot gold fell 0.19% to 4,445.86 USD per ounce; spot silver rose 1.09% to 67.02 USD per ounce. 4. Europe’s three major stock indices were mixed. The UK FTSE 100 rose 0.29%, France’s CAC 40 rose 0.21%, and Germany’s DAX 30 fell 0.69%. 5. Nvidia launched a new generation of high-bandwidth memory technology, NVIDIA NVHBM, which can provide XPU with higher memory performance and efficiency. 6. TSMC said that the underlying architecture of optical transceivers is undergoing a structural shift; silicon photonics has become the mainstream form. TSMC expects that its market share could exceed 50% in 2027, and that silicon photonics’s end-state is ultimately achieved through Co-Packaged Optics (CPO). Production ramp-ups are expected to be undertaken by vendors in the second half of this year. 7. SK hynix is considering assigning some HBM base bare dies to Intel to reduce reliance on TSMC’s wafer foundry services. The plan is expected to start with the seventh-generation HBM chip HBM4E. 8. Apple will officially complete its CEO transition on September 1 for the first time since 2011. Current Senior Vice President of Hardware Engineering John Ternus will succeed Cook as CEO and join the board of directors. 9. It is reported that some AI labs, including OpenAI, have already purchased tens of thousands of Mac mini and Mac Studio units for training AI agents and are urgently in need of more devices like these. Anthropic has also leased Mac mini units from Amazon AWS. 10. SpaceX is building a foundry in Bastrop, Texas, to produce blades and vanes for large gas turbines. The time to bring gas turbines into operation can be advanced by up to 18 months. 11. Eli Lilly said that research data for both Taltz and Zepbound in obesity treatment have shown positive results. (Caixin)