The US International Trade Commission’s final determination against Innoscience has been upheld following the conclusion of the Presidential Review Period, confirming that the Chinese GaN chipmaker infringed a patent held by Germany’s Infineon Technologies.
Alan Wei Zhaolun, an executive at Aperia Group, pleaded not guilty in a fraud case alleging that he and three others illegally misrepresented themselves to obtain servers containing Nvidia chips before rerouting them to China. He has been accused by Singaporean prosecutors of money laundering and other charges, as Singapore emerges as a hub for illicit AI chip flows to China.
Strong AI demand lifted Quanta’s revenue to a record high in June 2026 and pushed second-quarter sales to a new peak, with servers serving as the main growth driver and notebook shipments also contributing. Quanta shipped 4.5 million notebooks in June, up 28.57% from the previous month, bringing second-quarter notebook shipments to 11.5 million units, compared with 10 million in the first quarter.
PCB maker Zhen Ding said June revenue climbed to a fresh 2026 high, extending strong year-over-year growth as demand for AI-related high-end applications continued to build.
China’s sodium-ion battery sector is drawing intense attention as surging lithium carbonate prices lift lithium battery production costs. But Chinese media say the market is already showing a split between “big-company heat and small-company chill,” and that large-scale production could expose new material shortages.
South Korea’s hydrogen rail commercialization is entering the final stretch, with Hyundai Rotem, a unit of Hyundai Motor Group, building hydrogen trains equipped with Hyundai Motor’s in-house fuel cell system. The first commercial service is expected as early as 2029, but a 2024 shutdown of hydrogen trains in Foshan, China has raised questions about economic viability.
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