According to the Transparency Market Research, the global connected car market is expected to reach US$131.9 billion by 2019 continuing to maintain its steady growth. Businesses are scrambling for a share of the automotive electronics market in recent years. Lelon Electronics, Taiwan's No. 1 manufacturer of aluminum electrolytic capacitors, entered the market at an opportune time and have secured their place in the OEM supply chain of American and European automakers. As the automotive electronics market continues to grow, Lelon is confident in sustaining its business model and market share in the second half of the year.

Artificial intelligence (AI) has grown to become more mature due to aggressive development by related players over the past few years and is now able to support more applications including autonomous driving, robots and voice assistant platforms. NVIDIA has been a pioneer of AI technology development and its expertise on GPU parallel computing also makes the company one of the top suppliers of deep learning hardware.

According to GTM Research's Global Solar Demand Monitor, global PV installations are expected to reach 85GW in 2017, after seeing a 30% growth to 78GW in 2016. China as a major solar energy producer has become the world's largest market of photovoltaic technologies.

As part of Taiwan president Tsai Ing-wen's five-plus-two innovative industries initiative, Taiwan is looking to transform into a center of biotechnology and medical R&D in Asia and has budgeted NT$10.94 billion (about US$360 million) in 2017 for a biomedical promotion plan.

CEVA is a global leader that provides the semiconductor industry with digital signal processing (DSP) silicon intellectual property (SIP). The firm has been developing DSP technology since 1991. DSP is capable of real-time data processing and can satisfy and support applications that require real-time response without any delays. Some of DSP's mainstream applications are ultra-high-speed voice processing, background noise elimination, data compression, and signal quality and efficiency enhancements that require mathematical algorithms. CEVA's DSP cores can help smart devices offer clearer sounds, sharper images and faster data processing, and various smart devices such as smartphones and wearable devices adopt DSP technology.

Internet of Things (IoT) is becoming powerful driving forces of business transformation. The technologies to connect devices for monitoring and managing things have inspired many startups to explore the immense possibilities in the IoT industry.

In 2012 Google set off a big bang in the artificial intelligence (AI) community and brought deep learning into the eye of the public when it announced that Andrew Ng and the Google Brain project had taught an army of servers how to recognize cats simply by showing them hours and hours of YouTube videos. This was a milestone in the AI industry in that Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) were used for machine learning and it has revolutionized artificial intelligence and the analysis of big data, dramatically influencing how the challenges of applications such as voice recognition and translation, medical analysis and self-driving automobiles are being approached. In addition, it has introduced a new computing model to the market, a model that quickly placed NVIDIA front and center in the deep learning community and which is now starting to deliver what NVIDIA CEO Jen-Hsun Huang characterizes as superhuman results for the company.

OCZ, an SSD brand offered by Toshiba for the consumer market, has been further strengthened presence in high performance solid-state storage drives (SSDs) market with resulted in improved system performance, lower power and more reliability. Alex Mei, Vice President Marketing, GM of Etail/Retail SSDs, talked about the prospects of the storage market and product highlights in Computex Taipei 2016 during an exclusive interview.

Conexant has been putting lots of effort into developing its AudioSmart technology in recent years, and has successfully driven a wide range of emerging audio applications. At this year's Computex, the company will demonstrate its latest-generation AudioSmart 3.0 technology, including highly-efficient, powerful silicon and software solutions that are redefining the audio experience for a range of consumer electronics - such as tablets and PCs.

Governments around the world entered into a global climate deal at the recent Paris climate summit and therefore are enforcing related measures. Amid the growing trend, the top priority is how to improve buildings that are generally considered the most energy consuming. How to make use of technology such as IoT solutions and smart analytics to raise building operation efficiency is a critical topic.