[Overview of U.S. stock market pre-market news: ASML’s new generation EUV lithography machine has been promised to be used by TSMC and Samsung; Apple and Kioxia signed a long-term NAND agreement with no price limit; Zimbabwe has suspended the export of antimony and tungsten] September 8th, the financial news of the U.S. stock market that investors need to focus on is as follows: 1. The three major U.S. stock index futures rose or fell mixedly. Dow Jones futures fell 0.78%, S&P 500 futures fell 0.24%, and Nasdaq 100 futures rose 0.06%. 2. International oil prices have both strengthened. WTI crude oil futures prices rose 2.33% to US$93.611/barrel; Brent crude oil futures prices rose 1.51% to US$98.468/barrel. On the news, the Houthis said they were about to launch an in-depth attack on Saudi Arabia. 3. International gold and silver spot prices fell slightly. Spot gold prices fell 0.10% to US$4,401.77 per ounce; spot silver prices fell by 0.05% to US$66.11 per ounce. 4. The three major European stock indexes fluctuated within a narrow range. Britain's FTSE 100 index fell 0.01%, France's CAC40 index rose 0.01%, and Germany's DAX30 index fell 0.06%. 5. ASML announced that it is working with TSMC and Samsung to promote the application of next-generation high numerical aperture lithography machine technology. TSMC has promised to use this technology for advanced process mass production in 2030, and Samsung will use it for DRAM mass production by 2028. 6. ASML and TSMC announced that they will promote the upgrade of high numerical aperture extreme ultraviolet lithography masks from the current 6 inches to 12 inches. The two parties plan to establish a 12-inch mask trial production line in 2031. 7. Apple signed a long-term supply agreement for NAND flash memory with Japan's Kioxia. The contract may have a term of three to five years and has no price cap. 8. According to supply chain sources, Intel PC CPU prices are expected to increase by another 10% in early October 2026. At the same time, the small core product line with low gross profit margin may start to be discontinued and delisted. 9. Samsung Electronics’ 4-nanometer process is reported to be operating at full capacity, and 50%-60% of its output is being used to produce basic bare wafers of HBM4 memory chips, corresponding to a monthly production capacity of 15,000 pieces. 10. Quantinuum, a quantum computing company, received a US$100 million R&D grant from the U.S. Department of Commerce for local manufacturing of trapped ion quantum computer chips and complete machines. 11. Zimbabwe will ban the export of antimony and tungsten with immediate effect, and the export of ores and concentrates will also be suspended to promote local processing. 12. People familiar with the matter said Anthropic gave up on acquiring Israeli AI startup Decart, which had previously expected the transaction size to be $6 billion.