As the AI computing race accelerates and semiconductor manufacturing capacity is increasingly redirected toward advanced memory, the memory industry is shifting from price-driven competition to a battle over resource allocation and supply security. The rapid expansion of high-bandwidth memory (HBM) production continues to consume advanced fabrication capacity, constraining the supply of conventional memory products and creating persistent shortages across the market. This concentration of high-end production has widened the supply-demand gap, driving the average selling prices of certain premium memory products to levels eight to ten times higher than previous norms

Rugged edge computing brand – Cincoze will showcase its latest embedded computing solutions at COMPUTEX Taipei 2026, from June 2–5 (Hall 2, Booth Q0401a). Cincoze will display its full range of edge computing solutions around the theme of "Smarter, Faster, More Reliable - Powered by Edge AI" encompassing the full spectrum of edge application environments in four dedicated zones, including DIN-Rail computers, industrial panel PCs and monitors, rugged embedded computers, and GPU embedded computers

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Corning's long-running intellectual property (IP) dispute with China-based IRICO has entered a new phase after the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) issued what Corning views as a fair and critical Initial Determination in the company's trade secret case.The ruling marks a critical legal moment in Corning's broader effort to defend its display glass compositions and fusion manufacturing technology against IRICO's unauthorized use of Corning's patented technology, the misappropriation of trade secrets, like engineering drawings, and the deployment of Corning's proprietary technology across its manufacturing lines.For Corning, the dispute is not merely a matter of one product line or one regional market. It is a direct defense of research, process expertise, and IP that underpin its position in high-precision display glass. "This latest decision from the International Trade Commission is clearly affirms our unwavering commitment to innovation," said Brendan Mosher, International Vice President and General Manager, Corning Display Technologies."We believe strong intellectual property protection, fair competition, and trusted partnerships are fundamental to a healthy innovation ecosystem. As a 175-year-old company, Corning is continuously advancing and protecting innovation so our customers across Asia can collaborate with confidence and compete successfully in global markets."April Wins Set the StageThe July 24 outcome follows two important legal wins for Corning in April. On April 7, an Administrative Law Judge at the ITC issued an Initial Determination in a separate glass-composition patent case, finding that IRICO infringed both asserted Corning patents and that the patents are valid.The determination also recommended a Limited Exclusion Order against IRICO, including certification requirements and a prohibition on importing IRICO-manufactured LCD glass substrates that fall within Corning's proprietary composition space, as well as products, such as LCD TVs and monitors, containing such glass.Corning stated that it sought the ruling to protect its proprietary display glass substrates and technology and enforce its intellectual property against infringing products imported into the United States.Corning secured another favorable result in Europe. On April 16, a judge at the Unified Patent Court in Germany ruled in a composition patent case that IRICO infringed Corning's patent and further confirmed the patent's validity. The ruling allows Corning to seek damages and enforcement of an order that could block televisions using IRICO's infringing glass from entering Germany.Together, the April rulings gave Corning added legal momentum ahead of the July 24 trade secret determination and reinforced its stated position that its display glass IP portfolio remains valid, enforceable, and strategically important.Trade Secrets Case Expands the StakesThe trade secret case carries broader significance because it goes beyond a single glass composition. According to Corning, the company had expected a favorable result based on what it described as clear evidence that IRICO stole engineering drawings and improperly used Corning's proprietary technology across its manufacturing footprint.Corning also stated that the trade secret case is important because it could restrict imports of all IRICO glass compositions manufactured using Corning technology, including the 616 composition that closely mirrors Irico's 615 composition found to violate Corning's patents.With the latest ITC ruling now in place, the dispute moves from a composition-patent fight toward a broader question of manufacturing know-how.In advanced materials, this distinction matters. The value of a technology platform is rarely limited to a formula or a finished product; it is embedded in process control, equipment engineering, production discipline, and accumulated know-how developed over decades.A favorable trade secret determination therefore strengthens Corning's ability to argue that the dispute concerns the core of display glass manufacturing, not merely the outer boundary of one patent claim.IP Protection as an Industrial DisciplineCorning's robust legal defense reflects a broader IP philosophy. The company states that invention and innovation have been central to its success for 175 years, and that its leadership in the LCD industry is built on investment, innovation, collaboration, and trusted customer relationships.It also emphasizes that IP protection is not only about safeguarding invention; it is about defending the long-term R&D investment that enables industry-changing products, sustainable customer success, and technologies that enhance people's lives.With a global patent portfolio spanning more than 30 countries and decades of experience and investment in technology commercialization and compliance, Corning frames IP protection as a foundation for trusted innovation in high-standard global markets.This is also where Corning draws a hard line. Its IP philosophy states that when the company finds unauthorized use or misappropriation of its technology, it will take action and will not tolerate situations where its IP is compromised or infringed.And Corning's message to the industry is direct: advanced materials innovation depends on intellectual property protection and fair competition.From Fusion Process to Industry-Wide ImpactThe dispute ultimately points back to the technology at the center of Corning's display glass leadership: the fusion process. Developed more than 60 years ago, the process was created to solve one of the most difficult challenges in precision glassmaking — how to produce large, thin, exceptionally flat glass sheets at industrial scale without compromising surface quality.Unlike conventional glass-forming approaches that may require contact with forming surfaces or extensive post-processing, Corning's fusion process allows molten glass to flow over both sides of a forming structure, meet at the bottom, fuse in midair, and be drawn into a pristine sheet. Because the exterior surfaces remain untouched during formation, the process can deliver the surface quality, dimensional stability, and thickness control required for advanced display manufacturing.Over decades, this manufacturing platform became a key enabler of the flat-panel display industry. Fusion-formed glass helped support the transition from bulky cathode-ray tube (CRT) displays to thin, flat, high-resolution screens, while giving panel makers the precision substrate needed for increasingly complex LCD and TFT processes.Its impact was not limited to material performance. By enabling larger substrates, higher productivity, and more advanced panel architecture, the fusion process also helped change the economics of display manufacturing.For Corning, defending the IP behind fusion-based display glass is therefore not a peripheral legal exercise. It is a direct defense of the technological foundation that helped reshape the global display industry.

Taiwan Electrical and Electronic Manufacturers' Association (TEEMA) on July 21 held an investment briefing in Taiwan on its Mexico science park plan, bringing together representatives from Mexico and Sonora state as it advanced a project aimed at helping Taiwanese small- and medium-sized enterprises expand overseas. The initiative was highlighted as part of a broader push to give smaller suppliers a more direct path into foreign markets.TEEMA said the overseas science park concept took shape two to three years ago after executives identified a gap between the support available to large manufacturers and the barriers faced by smaller firms abroad. The association said local governments overseas also have limited resources when courting investment, since officials must approach companies one by one and can only match with a limited number of firms.As a result, TEEMA wants to act as an intermediary platform that connects small businesses with resources while also easing the workload for host governments. The association said Mexico responded faster than other countries and showed the strongest support, making it the first location selected for the overseas science park plan.TEEMA outlined three priorities for the park: giving large, medium and small tenants similar treatment; creating a single service window so companies can handle permits and local government coordination more easily; and building Taiwan-style living services, including familiar food and daily amenities, to reduce adjustment costs for staff posted overseas. The association said the park is designed to bring together large companies, small firms, governments, financial institutions, and overseas partners into an industrial cluster that can lower barriers to overseas investment.The association also said the effort comes as global industry is being reshaped by geopolitics, tariffs, supply chain restructuring, and the rapid rise of AI. TEEMA said competition is increasingly determined by the integration of supply chains, manufacturing, energy, logistics, talent, and services, and that Taiwanese companies need to expand overseas together rather than operate alone to preserve global competitiveness.

Marine debris management is entering a new phase of data-driven applications. Converting years of accumulated coastal imagery into actionable tools for surveying, identification, and monitoring has emerged as a critical challenge in the digitalization of ocean governance.Under the guidance of Taiwan's Ocean Affairs Council (OAC), the National Academy of Marine Research (NAMR) is hosting the "2026 International Marine Debris Image Recognition AI Challenge." Featuring a dataset of over 20,000 real-world marine debris images, the competition invites AI, data science, computer vision, and marine science teams from Taiwan and abroad to participate.The competition is supported by Amazon Web Services (AWS) as the AI technology partner, with model evaluation and competition operations managed through the Industrial Technology Research Institute's (ITRI) AIdea AI Co-Creation Platform. Registration is now open.NAMR sets the challenge: bringing AI to the frontlines of ocean governanceMarine debris has long been a fundamental issue in coastal environmental governance - and one of the most difficult to address in the field. Coastal debris is diverse in type, scattered in distribution, and frequently degraded by sun exposure, seawater erosion, sand burial, and physical damage, making manual surveys and image interpretation highly labor- and time-intensive.To accelerate digital transformation, NAMR has established MDImageNet, an AI-Ready marine debris image dataset covering the ICC19+1, NAMR26+1, and NAMR33+1 marine debris category schemes. The competition draws on NAMR's existing marine debris image dataset, comprising over 20,000 images annotated with YOLO-format bounding boxes. The dataset covers common coastal waste categories including plastic litter, fishing-related debris, and other anthropogenic waste.A "post-mapping" strategy is adopted: participants first train models using the original class labels provided, then map predictions into 20 official recognition categories during inference, with final scoring based on 19+1 primary marine debris target classes.The competition design confronts teams with the real-world constraints of field data - cluttered backgrounds, diverse object classes, and significant appearance variations. By requiring quantitatively evaluated object detection models, the challenge goes beyond open data sharing: it validates whether AI can be transformed into deployable tools built upon existing survey infrastructure.The competition comprises preliminary and final rounds, evaluated primarily on mean Average Precision (mAP) at an IoU threshold of 0.5. A "Best Lightweight Optimization Award" is also offered, using NetScore to balance detection accuracy, model size, and computational complexity-encouraging models suitable for practical deployment in coastal patrols, UAV-based image analysis, and long-term environmental monitoring.AWS cloud resources and AIdea platform power hands-on AI developmentThe competition integrates resources from AWS and ITRI's AIdea AI Co-Creation Platform to support teams throughout model development, training, testing, and evaluation. AWS provides the cloud development environment, offering Amazon SageMaker AI and computing resources for machine learning workflows. Technical workshops are also scheduled to familiarize participants with cloud-based AI development tools and model training pipelines.ITRI's AIdea Platform handles competition execution, dataset support, and automated scoring. The standardized cloud environment and evaluation framework ensures all teams operate under identical conditions, maintaining fairness and reproducibility.The competition is open to high school students, college students, and professionals, with teams of two to five members. Cross-institutional and interdisciplinary collaboration is encouraged, combining expertise in AI, computer vision, data science, and marine science to produce evaluated model outcomes for marine debris recognition.Registration for the "2026 International Marine Debris Image Recognition AI Challenge" is open until August 10. The total prize pool is NT$300,000, with two additional Best Lightweight Optimization Awards.NAMR aims to bring together the AI community, research institutions, academia, and industry to convert marine debris imagery into deployable environmental monitoring models-building Taiwan's AI application experience and marine data foundation for ocean governance.For competition details and registration, visit the official website (link).