Shuttle, an industry-leading designer and manufacturer of small form factor (SFF) PC solutions and mobile internet devices, is highlighting its latest innovations during Computex 2014. Shuttle is showcasing its high-performance XPCs, digital signage players, its EDUPAL education solution, as well as its ODM designs at their head office on June 2-7, 2014.

Over the past 10 years the commercial computing market has been enamored with the idea of being able to move data and heavy computation to a central resource, where it can be accessible by the many rather than just the one. You hear about it when companies trumpet cloud computing and discuss virtualization, especially in the context of virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI), client consolidation infrastructure (CCI) and hosted virtual desktops (HVD).

Until recently, Vitesse Semiconductor saw its core market as being the carrier Ethernet market, particularly what it calls the IP edge, which is anything from base stations to picocells to backhaul microwave/milliwave small cells, as well as routers and switches in the aggregation network. However, the company has noticed that there is demand for its chips and reference designs in the industrial segment, as that market is migrating from proprietary protocols toward Ethernet, and Vitesse has been able to provide timing and low power solutions that fit market needs.

WD, a Western Digital (NASDAQ: WDC) company, and world leader in storage solutions, will be demonstrating the first PCI Express hard drives at Computex Taipei, June 3-4, 2014. Enabled with key technology partners, WD's prototype introduces the new SATA Express interface, a form of PCI Express technology, which is offered on recently launched Intel series-9 chipset motherboard platforms. The SATA Express interface provides a roadmap for faster speeds, lower power consumption and increased flexibility for future OEM designs.

Although not best known for its notebooks, Gigabyte Technology has been operating in the notebook business for quite a while and entered the gaming notebook business two years ago.

Intel president Renee James has unveiled several new innovations at Computex 2014 including a SoC platform for entry-level mobile devices, 14nm fanless mobile PC reference design, new CPUs and technologies.

As part of Toshiba, OCZ Storage Solutions is able to leverage Toshiba's NAND and combine it with its proprietary controllers, firmware and software. Toshiba's financial strength has also put OCZ in a better position to compete in the rapidly growing SSD market.

Formosa Electronic Industries Inc. (8171:TT) is one of the earliest members of Wireless Power Consortium (WPC) in Taiwan, and also an Apple MFi qualified manufacturing licensee, authorized to produce Made for iPhone/iPad/iPod products for the mass market. FEii is a complete new brand launched by Formosa Electronic in the end of 2013 aiming to provide mobile power to people anywhere anytime, and bring them closer.

Notebooks, tablets, and peripherals such as hard disk drives, cameras, and more recently displays have derived power over USB interfaces, enabling simple connections for power and data, eliminating the need for large cumbersome power adapters. Digital devices like smartphones are now almost exclusively USB for charging and data transfer.

For the first time presenting at Computex Taipei 2014, Vision Advance Technology (VATek) is about to reveal the whole series digital modulator chips. Other than the multi-format DTV modulator chip, world's first ENMODER (Encoder + Modulator) will be shown at the fair as well.