The use of the latest technologies not only offers a more immersive experience but also improves the overall quality of gameplay.Augmented Reality (AR) is used to overlay digital elements onto the real world. You can add different virtual elements to your surroundings.On the other hand, Virtual Reality offers a fully immersive experience in the digital environment. While using VR, you will be disconnecting from the real world. The latest games use a mix of both technologies.Playing VR games might also require you to invest in additional hardware. Only limited games are available with VR and AR support, but the growing demand for these technologies indicates bright opportunities for the gaming industry.Impact of VR and AR on the Gaming SectorThe entertainment industry seems to be the biggest user of these technologies, but other sectors are also benefiting a lot from these latest technologies. From real estate agents to hardware developers, everyone is using the latest technologies in different ways. When it comes to gaming, consumers expect more immersive gameplay and better-quality visuals. Here are some major impacts of these technologies in different niches of the gaming industry.Immersive GameplayGames are not just about shooting and running because there is a completely imaginary world in these days. Players spend hours making progress in these games, and developers need to have essential tech in place to keep them engaged.With VR headsets, users can enjoy a 360-degree view of the surroundings. Many games benefit from this feature as players need to be aware of their surroundings in the games. There are even motion controllers installed for these games that will take you to the digital realm.Pokemon Go is the biggest example of the successful integration of AR in the gaming world. While playing games based on AR, you will be interacting with the physical world via smartphone, but there will be different elements added to the environment with AR.Some casino games even use VR and AR technologies. Players will enjoy the same gambling experience as playing at a physical casino. Without spending much on new devices, gamblers still play free slot machine games at online casinos to experience the platform. Once you are done with the basic games, you can search for better and more entertaining options like VR and AR games.Enhanced Gameplay MechanicsOld games offered only limited controls where you could control the player's movement with a joystick and buttons only. With new games, new technologies and sensors allow players to use their body movements for the games.For example, if you are playing an action-adventure game, you will have to move your body in real-time to avoid the sword attack in the game. You will have to move your legs in the real world to move in the game.Traditional games can add new layers of creative elements and features with AR technology. Monster Hunter Now and Pokemon Go are quite popular games. You will be able to play games, move physically, and interact with virtual elements via your smartphone. Playing AR games does not require additional hardware because the camera of your smartphone is used to display different elements in the surroundings.Improved Social InteractionMost games are based on multiplayer gameplay features, and there are different platforms where users of the same game can interact in a virtual environment. Their avatars will be in the same room or space, and players behind these characters will be able to communicate with each other. Chat options and other means of communication don't offer that kind of smooth experience as VR spaces.As players will be interacting in real time via their smartphones, different players can also team up and play games together. They usually gather at a common place and then play in groups to make faster progress in the game.Innovative Game DesignTraditional gaming technologies have been entertaining the industry for ages. However, certain design limitations restrict the potential of the gameplay.With VR and AR, developers can add different innovative game elements to improve the creativity of the game. Players can climb mountains, run, and walk in the game by performing real-like actions and movements in real life. Their movements in real life direct and control the movement of the avatar in the game.More ways to interact with the game characters and surroundings increase the growth opportunities. Location-based games are the perfect example of the use of AR in the gaming world. Instead of limiting the design approach, developers take inspiration from real-world surroundings, and they keep adding new and innovative game design elements.The potential of AR and VR TechnologiesThe entertainment industry, including online casinos, video games, and the film industry, is using the latest visual technologies to improve production quality. The use of machine learning and artificial intelligence will open doors to new opportunities in the gaming world.Modern consumers want customized services and products in every aspect of life. The latest technologies and tools ensure easy personalization of different aspects of the game.With more realistic gameplay, users will be able to gain better control over the game dynamics and enjoy better flexibility in the games. The overall adaption of these technologies will take a few years, but the interest of tech giants shows that consumers can expect some major developments in the industry soon.ConclusionGames are not just a hobby or entertainment; people use these activities for personal and professional reasons, too. Streamers make their living by playing games online and then streaming to the interested audience.On the other hand, millions of users find peace and escape from reality in these games. So, the level of impact of gaming on our daily lives demands the swift implementation of the latest technologies in the industry. You will find VR and AR games easily available on almost every online gaming platform.

NewPower Worldwide, a leader in the distribution of electronic components and finished goods, has proudly announced its latest achievement as being named the #1 Independent Distributor in North America by Electronics Sourcing and the #10 Global Distributor awarded by Supply Chain Connect's Top 50 rankings.This year's rise to #1 completes a meteoric ascension to the top of the world's distribution charts. With 14 offices worldwide, NewPower is positioned to provide its customers with 24/7 world-class service. The company's proprietary cloud-based sourcing technology, EMPOWER, has been instrumental in this success, providing customers with real-time access to an extensive inventory of electronic components."Our climb in the rankings is a direct result of our team's innovative spirit and dedication to providing cutting-edge supply chain solutions. As the market evolves, we'll remain deeply committed to enhancing the efficiency of our customer's supply chains," said Carleton Dufoe, Chief Executive Officer.As an industry expert in sourcing, procurement, and redistribution of electronic components and peripherals, NewPower Worldwide has consistently been recognized for its performance, appearing at the top of highly competitive and rigorous annual reports for seven consecutive years.The company's achievements reflect its technological advancements and financial strength, as well as its customer-first mentality, which has been crucial in driving impactful results for its clients.For more information, visit www.newpowerww.com for a complete list of supply chain services or email solutions@newpowerww.com for immediate assistance.

Ever since the all-knowing AI demonstrated its capability to comprehensively respond to user inquiries at the end of 2022, businesses have been trying to utilize generative AI to build smart customer service and AI assistants as a means to reduce staff workload and increase work efficiency, while also boosting customer satisfaction.Participating in the smart mobility: Gogoro division of the AI Wave: Taiwan Generative AI Applications Hackathon, held on May 18-19, 2024 by DIGITIMES, the team named "How Come Fu-Gui Left," comprising Fu-Gui Wang from Bachelor's Program of Artificial Intelligence Technology and Application, Feng Chia University, as well as Si-Ya Chen, Yan-Ting Guo and Cheng-Han Lin from the Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, National Taichung University of Science and Technology, created "Gogoro Smart Scooter Wizard," an AI assistant built with generative AI that gives instant and complete responses to all kinds of user inquiries about Gogoro. The team stood out from a group of strong competitors and won the honorable mention award, voted unanimously by all the judges.The market has seen quite a few AI-based chatbots emerge in recent years. However, most of them only provide standardized answers to specific questions. In contrast, How Come Fu-Gui Left developed Gogoro Smart Scooter Wizard using the Anthropic Claude 3 Sonnet and Haiku models in Amazon Bedrock, a fully managed service that makes high-performing foundation models on Amazon Web Services (AWS), trained on massive data from Gogoro, allowing it to give organized and sensible responses. Users only need to input the Gogoro model to start asking any questions and get complete answers.Despite its powerful capabilities, generative AI with large language models (LLMs) may occasionally give false or misleading information. When this happens, it does not help but burdens customer service agents.To prevent this, How Come Fu-Gui Left implemented multiple measures in their AI assistant. First, it is restricted to providing answers only to Gogoro-related questions. Furthermore, to save the AI model from incorrectly identifying a Gogoro vehicle, the AI assistant searches the Gogoro knowledge base for information based only on the vehicle model entered by the user. It then sorts out relevant content and provides a user-friendly response. It will politely refuse to answer questions unrelated to Gogoro vehicles.Gogoro Smart Scooter Wizard further uses generative AI to give answers with images. Not only will this help users better understand the response, but it also optimizes the user experience and raises user satisfaction, thereby boosting Gogoro's brand awareness and trustworthiness.The team named "How Come Fu-Gui Left" won honorable mention for their AI assistant for Gogoro smart scooters

In the face of rapidly evolving cyber threats, apart from new AI tools for cybersecurity, data-driven analysis and prediction of potential cyberattack targets and methods will help mitigate the impact of cybersecurity incidents.Trend Micro provided the challenge for the cybersecurity division of the AI Wave: Taiwan Generative AI Applications Hackathon, held on May 18-19, 2024 by DIGITIMES, asking the participating teams to use cyber threat data and generative AI to strengthen corporate cybersecurity. Trend Micro also provided resources and data for the teams to use.The team named "Aspiring to Ensure Cybersecurity", comprising Jun-Sheng Shi from the Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, National Ilan University, and Wei-Chi Luo from the Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, National Taiwan Normal University, harnessed the power of generative AI to build an automated analyzer and chatbot that provides cyber threat intelligence summary, prediction on potential cyberattacks and data extraction from NoSQL databases. The team stood out from a group of strong competitors and won the honorable mention award, voted unanimously by all the judges.With today's growingly diverse forms of cyber threats, the team thinks if cybersecurity teams can leverage automation tools to sort through cyber threat data of the past, present, and future and thereby predict cyberattacks, not only will they be able to stay ahead of global cybersecurity trends but they will also work much more efficiently. Individual and corporate users are subject to cyber threats and need such tools to help ensure cybersecurity.Aspiring to Ensure Cybersecurity designed their automation tool to meet the needs of both professional and general users. This thinking drove them to use a chatbot to provide automated service that enables users to make the right decision as quickly as possible in response to a cybersecurity incident. As part of their efforts to protect critical data, corporate and individual users generally have some sort of cybersecurity mechanism in place. However, not everyone is capable of understanding the jargon from their cybersecurity tools.The automation tool developed by Aspiring to Ensure Cybersecurity provides the intelligence summary that Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) teams need. More importantly, it helps general users quickly decipher cybersecurity terms and take appropriate actions in response to all types of cyber threats, thereby minimizing potential impact.The team expressed great interest in the cybersecurity industry and appreciated the chance to learn generative AI and Large Language Models (LLMs) knowledge through the Amazon Web Services (AWS) workshops. The team members both have plans to obtain cybersecurity, AI, and ML certifications and aspire to a career in the cybersecurity industry.The team named "Aspiring to Ensure Cybersecurity" won honorable mention for their AI-powered cybersecurity analyzer and chatbot

Taiwan is a food lover's paradise, internationally recognized for its gourmet cuisine. This also means the food service industry in Taiwan is incredibly competitiveWhether restaurants can survive and thrive for long depends on their ability to attract customers. Wowprime provided the challenge for the innovative food service division of the AI Wave: Taiwan Generative AI Applications Hackathon, held on May 18-19, 2024 by DIGITIMES, challenging the participating teams to utilize generative AI to create innovative interactive applications that drive customers to restaurants.Wowprime also provided resources and data for the teams to use. The team named "Hoping to Meet the Turtle," comprising Yu-Xuan Liu from the graduate program of the Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering at National Cheng Kung University, as well as Wei-Xu Chen and Yan-Ting Lin from IBM, used generative AI coupled with game-based marketing to increase customer loyalty and draw new customers to restaurants. The team stood out from the competitors in the Wowprime - innovative food service division and won the honorable mention award, voted unanimously by all the judges.People in Taiwan enjoy good food. This is the key growth driver for the country's food service industry.A restaurant's ability to attract more customers is critical to its long-term operation. Hoping to Meet the Turtle used the Anthropic Claude 3 Sonnet model in Amazon Bedrock, a fully managed service that makes high-performing foundation models on Amazon Web Services (AWS), to analyze restaurant data provided by Wowprime and found the group of customers aged between 26 and 45 is the largest.According to Business Wire, the global gaming market value is set to reach US$40 billion in 2024 and the 26-45 age segment is also the most dominant. Because of this, the team came up with the idea of incorporating game-based marketing in their solution.Games evoke positive emotions, pique great interest, encourage interactions at a low cost, and build brand identity so game-based promotion is ideal for restaurants with a limited marketing budget. Apart from designing games catering to Millennials, the team also used location-based push notifications and Online Merge Offline (OMO) approaches to create winning marketing funnel strategies that enable continuing customer interactions and increase customer stickiness. For future enhancements, the team proposes add-on features including special holiday promotions, social media posts, and customized menus.In response to the award, Hoping to Meet the Turtle noted that game-based marketing has wide-ranging applications. Backed by powerful generative AI and suitable data for training, game-based marketing can be used in all kinds of scenarios wherein businesses need to reach out to customers. Going forward, the team will stay committed to related technology research and find more application scenarios.The team named "Hoping to Meet the Turtle Team" won an honorable mention award for their AI-driven game-based marketing solution to boost restaurant

In alignment with the global ESG initiative, businesses are increasingly paying attention to energy management.However, without specific expertise, most people have difficulty keeping abreast of energy efficiency issues. Fortunately, generative AI can help. Advantech provided the challenge for the smart energy management division of the AI Wave: Taiwan Generative AI Applications Hackathon, held on May 18-19, 2024 by DIGITIMES, challenging the participating teams to utilize generative AI to revolutionize user experience of smart energy management.Advantech also provided resources and data for the teams to use. The team named "Playing a Part in AI", comprising De-Ru Yu and Si-Yu Tsai from 8 Interactive and Ting-Ni Wu from CTBC Securities, created AI Agent, a virtual expert guiding energy conservation meetings.The team aimed to help managers new to energy conservation tackle challenges as they lack the experience to ask the right questions, sort through the data, and perform analyses. The team stood out from a group of strong competitors and won the honorable mention award, voted unanimously by all the judges.Generative AI has demonstrated its strong capabilities in a multitude of application scenarios. Businesses are now striving to harness the power of generative AI.To enable one-key data analysis and efficient energy management, Playing a Part in AI developed a solution that uses generative AI to look up data and prepare a presentation before a meeting, provide strategy suggestions and insights after the meeting, and regularly track records and personalized reports. It can help managers unfamiliar with energy conservation quickly grasp key points in a meeting.Playing a Part in AI built its energy conservation meeting AI Agent using the Anthropic Claude 3 Sonnet model in Amazon Web Services (AWS) Amazon Bedrock, a fully managed service that makes high-performing foundation models on Amazon Web Services (AWS), coupled with AWS Lambda, a serverless compute service, and Amazon DynamoDB, a fast NoSQL key-value database service.Before a meeting, managers only need to input the meeting topic, and the AI Agent will analyze a great amount of data and generate charts to help managers identify the key points. After the meeting, managers can use their mobile phones to upload data to the platform for the generative AI engine to sort, analyze, and archive. For regular tracking purposes, the AI Agent can send notifications with customized reports and charts according to user settings to help managers stay on top of project status.The Playing a Part in AI team members come from various backgrounds encompassing engineering, marketing, and business planning. The team attributed their success to the comprehensive training they received at the AWS generative AI workshops. It brought them on the same page and allowed them to communicate without barriers so that they could complete the project and win the award.The team named "Playing a Part in AI" won honorable mention for their AI Agent, a virtual expert for energy conservation meetings

Amid global warming, the COVID-19 pandemic, and armed conflicts around the world, energy prices have been soaring and everyone is searching for ways to reduce energy consumption and costs.Hitachi Air Conditioning assigned the problem for the innovative energy conservation division of the AI Wave: Taiwan Generative AI Applications Hackathon, held on May 18-19, 2024 by DIGITIMES. They challenged the participating teams to utilize generative AI to develop smart interactive applications for air conditioning systems that enhance user experience.Hitachi Air Conditioning also provided resources and data for the teams to use. The team named "Hao I Coding," comprising Zi-Zun Fang, Ying-Rong Lin, Yun-Hao Chang and Ruo-Yu Wu from the graduate program of the Department of Information Management at the National Central University as well as An-Chi Wang from Institute of Information Management, Department of Industrial and Information Management, National Cheng Kung University, built a solution that uses smartphones to keep an eye on electricity usage and leverages generative AI for electricity usage analyses. The team stood out from the competitors in the Hitachi Air Conditioning- innovative energy conservation division and won the honorable mention award, voted unanimously by all the judges.Coping with rising electricity prices, households are taking measures to reduce power consumption. After in-depth research, Hao I Coding found three major challenges hindering households' energy conservation efforts - inaccurate responses from chatbots, lack of air conditioning settings, and no way of knowing the electricity usage of traditional home appliances.To help address these challenges, the team decided to start by connecting smartphones with air conditioning systems to collect complete operation data and detect system malfunctions as soon as they occur. Based on that foundation, the team used generative AI to analyze air condition systems' electricity usage to help users find a perfect energy conservation balance, thereby resolving the two challenges - lack of air conditioning settings and no way of knowing the electricity usage of traditional home appliances.Although there are many generative AI solutions with Large Language Models (LLMs), they have difficulty providing correct responses to energy conservation questions without appropriate training using domain-specific data. Because of this, Hao I Coding conducted complete testing and decided to use the Anthropic Claude 3 Sonnet model in AWS Amazon Bedrock, a fully managed service that makes high-performing foundation models on Amazon Web Services (AWS) coupled with energy conservation big data, Hitachi Air Conditioning user manuals, and power-consuming appliance lists for training. They were able to build a chatbot that provides information-laden, logical and practical advice.Hao I Coding noted that the AWS workshop was a very valuable part of the hackathon as they did not have any opportunity to learn about generative AI and LLM before.The team named "Hao I Coding Team" won honorable mention for their smartphone-based AI solution for electricity usage analysis

The finance sector is one of the key areas where AI is put to use to drive innovations.FinTechSpace provided the challenge for the AI finance division of the AI Wave: Taiwan Generative AI Applications Hackathon, challenging the participating teams to utilize generative AI to develop innovative fintech solutions. The teams named "Happy Oh Oh" and "I Want to Travel Abroad" stood out from the competition and won the gold and silver awards.Happy Oh Oh drives green finance with generative AIYi-Ling Li, Xiang-Yi Ke, Hong-Chang Lin, Jia He, and Shao-Wei Chu from the Interdisciplinary Program of Management and Technology at National Tsing Hua University formed Happy Oh Oh. They used generative AI combined with green finance to solve financial difficulties for farmers and drive the low-carbon agriculture transition.Leveraging AWS Partyrock to build a generative AI application platform without coding, the team built three systems. They include an evaluation system that assesses farmers' credit risk and expected return, a check system that tracks farmers' project progress, and a settlement system that calculates carbon credits and issues payments.The way it works is that the bank grants a green loan to the farmer to cover upfront investment costs and the farmer earns carbon credits which can be used to pay off the loan. After the load period ends, the farmer can sell the carbon credits at the purchase price and the bank can trade the carbon credits in exchange for profit and SG responsibility fulfillment.With the solution, farmers can get extra income from selling carbon credits. Corporations can buy carbon credits as a way to reduce spending.Banks can make a profit while making a social influence. Governments can use the opportunity to build a carbon trading and offsetting system. Benefiting multiple parties, the solution integrates generative AI with green finance to improve farmers' financial well-being and drive low-carbon agriculture transition.I Want to Travel Abroad uses generative AI for fraud preventionMeng-Ru Chuang from AVA Angels and Hsiao-Hung Huang from Taiwan Association for Blockchain Ecosystem Innovation formed I Want to Travel Abroad. The team used generative AI to develop an innovative solution that fights increasing financial scams on social media.The team built a chatbot on the foundation of AWS PartyRock. Using an automated process, their solution gathers past performances of stock market gurus, analyzes the content, finds suspicious investment advice using big data algorithms, sorts the findings into personalized investment portfolios, performs fact checks, and offers the information to users via a friendly interface. The solution was aimed at using generative AI to help users identify suspicious investment advice and prevent them from falling victim to financial fraud.The rapidly rising popularity of social media on top of people's increasing need to invest their money provides a breeding ground for financial scams. The solution from I Want to Travel Abroad uses generative AI to collect different perspectives and convey them via a chatbot.It perfectly fits what users need and thus has great market potential. Future developments of the solution include collaborations with brokerage firms to provide their clients with tailor-made AI investment advice to create more revenue streams.The teams named "Happy Oh Oh" won the gold award for their innovative generative AI fintech solutionThe teams named "I Want to Travel Abroad" secured the silver award with their creative AI-driven fintech innovation

PARA LIGHT Electronics Co., Ltd., a global leader in LED design and manufacturing, recently announced the launch of five 650V and 1200V IGBT discrete products aimed at applications such as servo motor drive control, photovoltaic inverters, industrial energy storage, and power factor correction (PFC) of power supplies. These new products are expected to garner significant attention from customers due to their higher performance and power density.Among the five new IGBT products, four are packaged in TO247-3 and one in TO220-3. The voltage and current specifications for the four TO247-3 packaged models are as follows: PC50N065AH7S (650V, 50A), PC75N065AH7S (650V, 75A), PC40N120AH7S (1200V, 40A), and PC75N120GH7S (1200V, 75A), each capable of withstanding a short-circuit duration of at least 5 microseconds (5μs). The part number of the TO220-3 packaged model is PC50N65BH7, with voltage and current specifications of 650V, and 50A.Eric Hung, Vice President of Business & Marketing for the Power Semiconductor Division at PARA LIGHT Electronics, stated that these IGBT products offer higher performance, increased power density, and a wider range of switching frequencies. He also emphasized that their seasoned Quality Assurance team ensures the high quality of their new products. Additionally, PARA LIGHT's packaging and testing plant provides advantages in cost control and quick shipment, offering customers more flexible production plans for rush orders. All five new IGBT products utilize industry-leading 7th-generation IGBT design technology (Micro-Pattern Trench, MPT), offering efficiency performance improvements of 20%-30% over the industry's 6th-generation IGBTs, as illustrated in the IGBT FOM chart below.On top of higher efficiency, the five new IGBT products from PARA LIGHT feature a maximum operational junction temperature (Tvj) of up to 175°C. These two specifications allow customers' power electronic systems to maintain lower chip temperatures and system stability during long-term full-load operation, particularly in fan-less or tough industrial environments, thereby extending system lifespan. Notably, these IGBT products support a wide-range operational switching frequency, applicable from 1kHz to 65kHz, with an optimal range of 5kHz to 55kHz. This feature enables customers to use fewer part numbers of IGBTs across different power systems, reducing their procurement costs.PARA LIGHT also invites customers to collaborate on developing custom IGBT solutions tailored to specific needs. These custom solutions help customers address various unique or challenging application scenarios, enhancing their competitiveness in the market.FOM chart, performance comparison: PARA LIGHT's G7th IGBT vs. G6th IGBT of the global leading brandDavid Ma, Chairman of PARA LIGHT Electronics, highlights the critical role of IGBTs in power electronic systems, noting that their performance and quality consistency directly affect system performance, procurement costs, and failure rates. Despite numerous brands in the market, PARA LIGHT stands out with its reputation for quality and customer service. Leveraging its strengths, PARA LIGHT ensures consistent product quality for its new IGBT offerings. The company holds ISO 14001, ISO 9001, and IATF 16949 certifications, and its IGBT products undergo six major JEDEC reliability tests. All processes, from material inspection to shipment, are controlled by SPC, assuring product stability and consistency.PARA LIGHT's new IGBT products have received positive feedback from strategic customers during sample tests and are expected to be integrated into various new projects. These projects span multiple applications, including medical power supplies, industrial servo motor drive control, industrial solar inverters (PV inverters), energy storage power management equipment, industrial UPS systems, and DC fast charging stations for electric vehicles.Para Light's five new IGBT products are now in the mass production stage and open for batch or sample orders. The lead time for delivery is 14 weeks, but this can be reduced to 10 weeks for standing orders if demand forecasts are provided 15 weeks before the delivery date. To achieve mutually beneficial outcomes, customers in various sectors can contact Para Light to discuss strategic cooperation, including pricing and flexible logistic support.Founded in 1987 and listed on the Taiwan Stock Exchange in 2008 (stock code 6226), PARA LIGHT Electronics is a global leader in LED design and manufacturing. Nine years ago, it established an Optical Laboratory Center, expanding to LED module design and manufacturing. To adapt to quick global market changes, PARA LIGHT set up a packaging plant in Yangon, Myanmar, and is now expanding into the power semiconductor field.For more information or support on IGBT products, please contact PARA LIGHT Electronics' regional sales representatives or authorized distributors, or visit the official website: https://www.para.com.twPara Light logo

COMPUTEX 2024 is a global high-technology exhibition from June 4th to 7th at the Nangang Exhibition Center in Taipei. This year, Clientron will be showcasing its latest products and solutions across three main product lines: "Secure Thin Client Solution," "Smart Cockpit of Electric Vehicle," and "Smart Retail POS System" to comprehensively demonstrate its product development and innovations over the years."Secure Thin Client Solution"The hybrid working model has become normal due to the impact of COVID-19. It poses a great challenge for IT staff to ensure corporate information security and prevent hackers from hacking company internal servers and databases to steal data. Clientron, with decades of experience in manufacturing cloud endpoints, partnered with IGEL and 10ZiG to bring a secure and comprehensive hybrid workspace for the enterprise through Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) and Desktop-as-a-Service (DaaS) applications.As secure endpoint OS, IGEL & 10ZiG Linux kernel OS are read-only which prevents compromising and infecting with malware, ransomware, and cyber-attacks. No data is stored at the endpoint locally, such as SSD or USB drive, to avoid data breaches from lost or stolen endpoints. The accessibility of external peripherals, devices, and drives is completely controlled by IT staff for the sake of security. The endpoints are managed by the IGEL UMS & 10ZiG Manager (endpoint management tool) for the firmware, configuration, and setting to establish the corporate protection network."Smart Cockpit of Electric Vehicle"The key project displayed by Clientron is the "Smart Cockpit of Electric Vehicle" solution, which won the 2024 Taiwan Excellence Award. This innovative product is suitable for passenger and commercial vehicles. The smart cockpit has an in-vehicle information system, including integrated meter clusters, battery status, power indicators, gear positions, Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS) information, blind-spot detection, and in-vehicle infotainment, etc., for integrating smart technology and user convenience."Smart Retail POS System"Smart retail applications such as mobile payment, self-checkout, and unmanned stores bring convenience and technological experience to customers. We see the growing demand for flexible peripheral configurations and high-performance processors in POS systems. Clientron will exhibit a variety of new smart POS systems equipped with Intel® processors, ranging from entry-level to high-end, to deal with various innovative IoT businesses, create smart new retail transaction models, and provide customers with better services. Moreover, Clientron's POS system can also integrate POS printers and peripheral equipment. Store owners can customize the POS system according to their special needs to cope with various innovative smart services.Clientron, with 40 years of research and manufacturing experience, will showcase the development of its main products and demonstrate the ability to provide customized solutions. Clientron booth (No.R0614) is on the 4th floor of Hall 2, Nangang Exhibition Center. In addition, Clientron also displays the latest achievements of smart cockpits for electric vehicles at the TADA (Taiwan Advanced Automotive Technology Development Association) Automotive Tech Pavilion (No.N0814) on the 4th floor of Hall 1.Exploring Clientron latest endpoint security products, smart cockpit of EV and POS systems at Taipei Computex 2024