Industry figures and analysts from Taiwan and the United States gathered on August 19 at an international unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) forum to discuss how Taiwan can move beyond its traditional role as a components supplier and become a strategic partner in the global drone supply chain. The discussion takes place at a time when drones have become the frontier of warfare, and countries such as the US are looking to build non-China drone supply chains.

Google has told suppliers it plans to move all production of Pixel smartphones, smartwatches and wireless earbuds out of China starting in 2027, after making progress developing and producing high-end Pixel phones in Vietnam this year.

Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) recently announced its acquisition of Canadian AI chip startup Taalas to sharpen its competitive edge in AI inference. Taalas’ core technology bakes model weights directly onto the silicon rather than relying on traditional high-bandwidth memory (HBM).

Custom System-on-Chip (SoC) designer Socionext has selected Intel Foundry’s 18A-P process node to build its next-generation custom silicon, aiming to accelerate workloads across data centers, edge computing, and artificial intelligence (AI).