SK Hynix is recruiting engineers in San Jose to co-design 3D stacked DRAM-on-logic with US customers, extending its custom memory strategy beyond high-bandwidth memory and toward on-device AI applications.

Huawei founder Ren Zhengfei has publicly endorsed the company’s τ (tau) Law as Huawei’s sole technological path for advancing semiconductor development, underscoring six years of sustained investment in the approach. Rather than attempting to disrupt the existing semiconductor industry, Ren said the initiative aims to establish a sustainable path for chip evolution amid restrictions on access to leading-edge manufacturing technologies.

The Executive Yuan’s proposed special bill to fund Taiwan’s indigenous defense unmanned systems program has triggered debate over whether the initiative should focus primarily on military procurement or broader industrial development. The plan would allocate NT$210 billion (about US$6.5 billion) from 2026 to 2031 to acquire coastal surveillance drones, coastal attack drones and small suicide unmanned boats, aiming to enhance the armed forces’ asymmetric warfare capabilities.

Industrial PC maker IEI Integration joined Castec International at AMD Advancing AI 2026 in San Francisco on July 21 and 22 to showcase the new NANO-X100 4-inch single-board computer and edge AI inference applications, underscoring the two companies’ collaboration on integrated edge-computing hardware and software.

Benefiting from product mix optimization and a higher contribution from industrial applications, connector maker Sinbon on July 23, 2026, announced its unaudited operating results for the second quarter of 2026. Consolidated revenue and net profit after tax both hit the highest level for the same period on record, rising 16.58% and 19.02% year-over-year, respectively. However, operating profit edged down 1.76% quarter-over-quarter, weighed by higher strategic investment expenses.

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has taken an increasingly forceful position against possible sanctions from the Trump administration, arguing that US companies should remain free to use Chinese open-source AI models.