To address diverse needs of outdoor life and provide leisure activity gear and equipment to bring users fresh experience and convenience, WiMe has launched in 2016 a whole new car starter, FlashJumper, a five-in-one multi-function device that is not only fun but also useful in emergencies.FlashJumper combines a car starter, mobile power bank, LED warning tripod, ultra-high brightness flashlight and three outdoor white-light lamps. The design integrates these common outdoor tools in a 32x7.8 cm package for easy assembly and portability. FlashJumper's innovative and user-friendly design meets all user needs by providing emergency assistance in the case of traffic accidents, convenient light sources during outdoor activities and safety warning when the car stops at roadside. The product is patent pending in the invention, utility and design categories in the US and China.Unexpected circumstances may arise when traveling outdoors, such as the car battery suddenly running out. FlashJumper provides a capacity of 10,000 mA with a cable to bring the battery back to life and the trip back to fun. Furthermore, people nowadays usually bring electronic devices, including smartphones, cameras and tablets, to their outdoor events. FlashJumper enables plug-and-play anywhere free from the limitation by jumper cables and electric sockets.Combining a warning tripod with 36 high-brightness red LED, FlashJumper protects users in a vehicle stopped in the dark from accidents, ensuring traffic safety by warning other vehicles on the road and preventing collision with approaching cars.FlashJumper's ultra-high brightness flashlight, equipped with a 5W LED spotlight with 350 lumens, can light up a dark campsite and can easily be seen from a distance. FlashJumper is detachable into three 2W diffuse lights to meet the use scenario for multiple light sources on a camping trip. For latest information on FlashJumper, please visit www.wime.tw. Inquiries relating to the product can be directed to sales@wimegroup.com.tw.Photo: WiMe FlashJumper

CviLux (Opro9 brand) has taken the lead to launch Apple Homekit devices in Taiwan. The first series will be smart outlet and light bulb, and more will come in the future. CviLux has built a foundation to provide iPhone flash drive with encryption function for data protection, so we got approval from Apple to develop and produce Homekit devices based on encryption and wireless technologies.The characteristics of Apple Homekit devices are: one MFi approved app, operating through different brands of Apple Homekit devices; OTA (over the air) update on the software and long hardware life; Apple-Bonjour standard meets zero configuration for end user's friendly setting to Home/Room/Zone/Scenario easily; remote control by Siri voice command, both indoors and outdoors; highly encryption function to protect user privacy. And CviLux develops its own app, software and cloud service, which creates product differentiation and competitive advantages.CviLux-Opro9 has launched SmartDiaper. Infants and children generally wear one diaper for a long period of time which can cause diaper rash and skin infections. Severe infections can even jeopardize the lives of infants. The CviLux-Opro9 Smart Diaper sensor, manufactured using SGS certified-safe materials, doesn't even touch the child's skin directly, but only needs to be put on the outside of the diaper. When the infant urinates, temperature and moisture information will automatically be sent to the cellphones and tablets of parents, and will remind parents it is time to change the child's diaper using sound, vibration, and graphical means. The Opro9 SmartDiaper app, free on the App store, provides an easy-to-use, beautifully designed, interface to help new parents review and track their child's habits. The app provides statistical information, including records of daily and weekly urination times, average number of times urinated, urination frequency and so on, to allow parents to use the app records to make appropriate health-related decisions. If parents agree to allow upload of their child's data to CviLux's secure cloud, then the company's cloud-based data analysis programs, combined with clinical research from medical professionals, can provide parents with even more accurate health care data about the child's health.Future development plans include working in cooperation with manufacturers of diapers and baby supplies to provide targeted in-app advertising and e-commerce options, to help parents of newborns receive timely information on relevant, high-quality baby-care products.Photo: Apple Homekit devices and Opro9 SmartDiaperDuring computex, CviLux is at Nangang Exhibition Center (Hall-4, M0320) from May 31 to June 4, 2016.About CviLuxCviLux is a listed company in Taiwan and an Apple MFi manufacturer (Made For iPhone/iPad/ipod, CM6.4)). The CviLux Group consists three main business units: Connector & Cable Business Unit, Mobile Electronic Business Unit and Cloud Service and S.I. Business Unit. It is dedicated to making high quality products and providing turnkey total solutions from components, PCBA to final electronic product assembled. Its business model is based on OBM and ODM, local and on-site warehouse/logistic service in Taiwan, Hong Kong, mainland China, Singapore, California-USA , and Holland-Europe, etc . It strives for O2O- B2B-B2C online and office services. It runs the Opro9 brand worldwide .

Elo, a leading global supplier of commercial touchscreen solutions, has introduced large format TouchPro Pro-M projected capacitive (PCAP) touchscreens. The latest Pro-M series will catch the eyes of today's consumers. This series includes the standard 32-inch, 42-inch, 46-inch and 55-inch touchscreens with customized larger screens, and together with Elo's existing Pro-G series, covers multi-touch screen sizes from 7.0-inch up to 70-inch. These larger screens are designed for more flexible commercial usage and are customizable to meet the needs of almost any application or environment.Elo's TouchPro family of touchscreens includes the Pro-G touchscreens, which offer a highly durable glass-glass construction in sizes up to 27-inch while the Pro-M series is designed with leading edge mesh construction with sizes up to 70-inch. With the Pro-G series, touchscreens can already be tuned to provide multi-touch performance in robust, high durability applications with up to an 8mm total touch-through glass capability. The Pro-M series uses an advanced metal mesh solution which has a lighter weight construction to balance the larger sizes and uses leading low resistance technology. This construction allows highly flexible screen designs that will meet most application requirements and boasts industry leading optical performance. The Pro-M touchscreens can also be customized to provide support for up to a 50-point, multi-touch solution. Both solutions offer excellent optics, fast touch response and high durability with industrial grade reliability.With more than 40 years of engineering expertise, Elo provides designers various custom options to meet their specific needs with a range of cover glass choices. Glass treatments including tempered, chemically strengthened, heat strengthened, anti-glare, or thicker cover glass for vandal-proof applications are all available for customization. In addition, Elo drivers offer enhanced capabilities including touch on release, touch exclusion zones, touch count restrictions, edge acceleration, beep on touch and a real-time application programming interface. While already supporting multiple operating systems including Apple Mac OS, Google Android, Linux, and Microsoft Windows, Elo design engineers can also custom craft driver software to your specifications. "The large format PCAP screens offer our clients so much more flexibility," said Niklas Fallgren, Elo's vice president of the OEM Business Unit. "The size and customization options and construction choices of our TouchPro series means we can custom craft products that meet the unique requirements of OEM designers with the quality, technical expertise and design leadership that the industry has come to rely on from Elo."Elo will demonstrate the Pro-M and other Elo next generation technology products in Booth K0630 at the MRT Nangang Exhibition Center Station for Computex in Taipei on May 31-June 4, 2016.About EloElo Touch Solutions is a global leader in fully integrated touch solutions used by embedded technology designers across multiple touch markets. Elo has crafted best-in-class touchscreen solutions used to realize more than 20 million inspiring products in over 80 countries. The Elo experience has consistently stood for quality, reliability and innovation for more than 40 years. Elo intellectual property is protected by global patent, trademark and design registrations. Learn more at EloTouch.comPress ContactsBJ Bounds bj.bounds@elotouch.com(214) 457-0276

In a quest to differentiate their businesses, leading semiconductor companies are focusing on developing technologies that enable data-driven applications - such as power reductions, sensor capabilities, mobile smart device features, and Internet connectivity. This combination of technologies is used to create Internet of Things (IoT) devices - it is one of the most disruptive technology breakthroughs for the industry. In terms of scale, while mobile phones consume 1-2 billion chips every year, IoT devices are projected to consume over 100 billion chips per year. This booming sector is fast becoming the driver for growth in the electronics and semiconductor industries.IoT is enabling another industrial revolution by fundamentally changing the business model for various industries. The model for durable goods OEMs is changing from a transactional model (sell and forget) to a service model (sell and continue to serve) as enabled by IoT technologies. To stay competitive in this changing landscape, companies are collaborating with leading solution providers in order to enable and deliver this business transformation through IoT.To further explore industrial transformation through IoT technologies, Digitimes recently interviewed Hans Rempel, Exosite's CEO and co-founder, to discuss the company's vision, how it is helping organizations IoT-enable their business, and the outlook for the IoT market.Using Data Analytics, IoT Enables Enterprises to Successfully CompeteExosite provides a reliable, secure, and scalable IoT software platform that enables organizations to pursue new business opportunities through connected devices. Exosite customers include leading companies in industrial automation, smart home automation, safety surveillance, wearable and industrial energy management sectors. Global brands use Exosite IoT solutions to strategically differentiate their products and services from their competitors."When Exosite was founded in 2009, the Internet of Things was not yet even a term," Rempel said. "Although technologies have advanced, the transformative nature of IoT remains the same today and is enabling a revolution in how companies do business." Some key trends contributed to this IoT revolution. First, massive amounts of information have been collected due to the lower cost and availability of networking technologies, connectivity, and sensors. This mountain of data has created a strong need to leverage the power of data analytics.Second, Big Data analytic tools have made it possible to derive new insights from the data and to visualize customer trends. These insights are used to build innovative applications that provide real-time decision making guidance, and which leverage IoT-enabled cloud infrastructure and connected devices. Rempel said, "IoT is not only the technologies itself, but the vehicle upon which business transformation is delivered."By adding connectivity to devices, applying data analytics, and enabling new product designs, companies realize a more streamlined manufacturing process and sustainable product development cycle. In business-to-business IoT applications, the intelligent data analytics provided by Exosite's cloud platform also helps to improve process and workflow of enterprises. And, most of all, IoT-enabled products help companies enhance their user experience , forming an expectation of reliability and visibility that creates new business value.Legacy Business, New Value Proposition: How IoT Transforms BusinessRempel pointed out that traditional manufacturers are one of the best beneficiaries of IoT. A smoke detector is a great example - almost each family has this kind of sensor device installed in their house. With a traditional unconnected product, it is difficult for the smoke detector manufacturer, and also the home-owner, to understand whether the smoke detector is functioning properly. A properly functioning smoke detector fulfills the key value proposition of the device - that it alerts the occupants in the very rare occurrence there is a fire. This weak link is improved by applying IoT solutions. By leveraging the Exosite IoT platform, it is easy to build a connected smoke detector that can communicate pro-actively if there is a problem (e.g. low battery), so that the device is ready for service when needed.According to Rempel, IoT has redefined value propositions and created innovative new ways for companies to do business. By leveraging data analytics on their product data, manufacturers can gain insights into how the product is being used, and can turn those insights into new value-added services for the end customer. For example, a pump manufacturer can change their value proposition of selling a pump with certain specifications into selling the assurance of reliable fluid flow and pressure. The pump maker sees IoT technology as a way to help ensure the pumps are performing at peak efficiency. Through the use of data analytics, manufacturers can provide an improved maintenance service and build a more reliable fluid supply system. By providing the pump product as a service, a one-time payment of equipment sales can be converted into monthly utility payments. This transactional sale migration to a service sale is revolutionizing the value chain of the entire business engagement process. IoT is not just a matter of connecting things - it is a matter of transforming business through the value that connectivity brings. Exosite solutions help leading companies focus on the value their product is providing to their end customers by helping define and deploy their connected product strategies, and by supplying best-in-class IoT software to enable and sustain the deployments. By working in conjunction with OEMs and their solution partners, Exosite's goal is to accelerate and de-risk the exciting process of business transformation through IoT technologies. Some of Exosite's customers are manufacturers who have done business for more than 100 years - they are leaders in their sectors. Exosite's software and team are leaders in IoT technologies. By combining these two experts, manufacturers can shorten time to market, set new standards of excellence in their industries and maintain stronger relationship with customers. Rempel emphasized, "If customers want their products connected to the cloud, Exosite is the one to provide the best cloud solution."Photo: Hans Rempel, Exosite's CEO and co-founder

AIC Inc., a leading player in server and storage solutions industry worldwide, will showcase the whole series of products including server boards, chassis, JBOD, all-flash-array NVMe and high-density storage server at 2016 Computex Taipei (05/31~06/04/2016), on the 4th floor of Nangang Exhibition Hall. Meanwhile, to demonstrate AIC's sturdy strength and developing strategies to the global data center and cloud computing demanding, AIC specially design an area of "Smart Rack Series," to display 48U, 19U, and 15U racks.To echo the theme of AIC's 2016 global exhibition - "The Innovator in Cloud Computing and Data Centers," AIC will feature a series of smart racks, which includes 48U21-inch, 25U21-inch, and 15U19-inch. AIC will live demo one rack to present the Big Data running with Hadoop based on OpenStack platform, and the application of VSaaS (video surveillance as a service). AIC provides a complete platform for cloud computing and data processes in the data center.In addition, AIC unveils a new series of all-flash-array NVMe server systems, support most NVMe drive vendors in the market and upgrade to Intel Xeon Processors E5-2600 v.4 Product Family, to provide a "highly dense & hybrid" storage solution. In 1U and 2U form factor, but provide functions of high-speed, high-bandwidth, high-density and low latency. Support 2.5" NVMe PCIe SSD, AIC's all-flash-array NVMe series server systems, providing the perfect server environment for running applications that requires fast data delivery, such as video-on-demand broadcasting, hyper-scale computing, Big Data analytics, Hadoop, and Very Large Database (VLDB).Another important section of AIC's booth is new series of AIC's high-density and high-availability storage servers, including 1U12Bay, 4U24&60Bay, and etc. All products support up to Intel Xeon Processors E5-2600 v.4 Product Family. Compact mechanical designing tool-less chassis will able to save maintenance staffs' loading. All products with hot-swappable HDDs and fans, including smart fans management and low-power consumption system, will able to maintain machine at optimum status. High-Availability Server Storages include 2U24Bay and 4U24Bay, are the best solution for enterprise demanding to multi-task processing and storage. All support up to Intel Xeon Processors E5-2600 v4 product family, dual nodes would provide working configuration as "active/active", and internodes communicate with 10G Ethernet via Backplane, PCIe NTB or SAS. Most of the components on AIC's high-availability servers are totally redundant and hot-swappable, which decreases or nearly eliminates downtime if a node needs to be serviced because of a failure or a scheduled maintenance time.AIC also features series of server boards, chassis and storage JBOD product lines at the booth. Global visitors & partners can find out more innovative products and furthermore, to find out AIC's solid technical strength and the future development and marketing strategy. For more product information and possible partnership, please visit AIC's booth in 2016 Computex Taipei.Photo: AIC HA202-PHDate: May 31-June 4, 2016Booth Number: L0818, 4th Floor of Nangang Exhibition Hall1For more information, please visit: www.aicipc.comMedia contact:Jean Ko+886 3 433 9188 ext. 8300jean.ko@aicipc.com.twAbout AIC:AIC is a leading provider of both standard OTS (off-the-shelf) and OEM/ODM server and storage solutions. With expert in-house design, manufacturing and validation capabilities, AIC's products are highly flexible and configurable to any form factor, standard or custom. AIC leads the industry with nearly 25 years of experience in mechanical, electronic, system-level engineering, software, as well as a dedication to innovation and customer satisfaction. Headquartered in Taiwan, AIC has offices and operations throughout the United States, China, Russia, and Europe.

With over 20 years of development in digital cinema and home theater sound technologies, DTS has been dedicated to bringing consumers premium audio experiences whether at home, in the car, on the move or in the theater. DTS technologies enable smooth and seamless enjoyment during the transition between different use scenarios.DTS has introduced stunning next generation audio solutions including Headphone:X, Play-Fi and DTS:X in the last two years. The acquisition of iBiquity Digital at the end of 2015 has helped DTS secure the HD radio technology that holds a large share of the in-vehicle infotainment system market in North America. DTS is now pillared on a foundation built up of four leading technologies enabling applications of DTS technologies ranging from TV, home theaters, mobile devices, streaming services to in-vehicle systems, delivering high-quality immersive audio experiences to consumers.Aaron Chen, general manager of sales at DTS Taiwan Branch Office, indicates DTS will showcase its latest achievements in its four major technologies at Computex 2016 and present to visitors how these audio solutions can enhance their audio entertainment anywhere.AVR brands supporting DTS:X together hold more than 90% of the AVR marketDTS:X breaks through the barrier of traditional Ultra HD(UHD) surround sound processing technology and transitions from having 5.1 and 7.1 sound channels set on one platform to adding a height channel to enable a whole new 11.1 or 11.2.1 sound channel experience. Several Denon, Onkyo and Yamaha AVRs currently support DTS:X via firmware updates, and several more brands including Acurus, Pioneer, ARCAM, ELITE, Marantz and Pioneer will be releasing updates over the next several months. More than a dozen Blu-ray Discs with DTS:X audio have been released, with several more to be announced this year. Titles released thus far include The Big Short, Ex Machina and The Last Witch Hunter.In terms of theatrical content, there have more than 20 Hollywood and Chinese films exhibited in DTS:X audio so far, such as blockbusters Minions, The Hunger Games Mockingjay Part 2, Everest, The Martian, The Mermaid and The Monkey King 2. Several more films are expected to be released in DTS:X sound in the second half of the year. In addition, DTS is working with leading global digital cinema solution provider GDC and has installed more than 100 DTS:X theaters in the US and China. The number is expected to increase to more than 200 by the end of the year.DTS has also made significant achievements with Headphone:X since 2015. High-end mobile devices from known brands including ASUS, Acer, HTC and Huawei are adding support for Headphone:X technology with the goal to bring the premium home theater audio experiences to mobile devices. For example, more than 10 models of ASUS tablets have enabled support for Headphone:X technology. In terms of headphones, the Logitech G933 and G633 gaming models embed a built-in Headphone:X chip, as do gaming headsets from Turtle Beach, Steel Series and Triton Katana.A popular music streaming platform is to announce its support for Headphone:XChen reveals that after DTS and QQ music formed a licensing partnership in 2015, another online music streaming platform popular in Taiwan, Japan and Southeast Asia has also decided to join forces with DTS, with an announcement scheduled for June. Then, consumers will only need to use a Headphone:X-enabled mobile device and select preferred audio settings on a Headphone:X app and they will be able to enjoy top-quality streaming music from the service platform with in-ear, circumaural or supra-aural headphones.When the consumer returns home, he or she can use existing Wi-Fi connection at home and get streaming music from online music streaming service providers including Spotify, Pandora, Rhapsody and Tidal through a mobile device or PC. Then, with DTS Play-Fi, the user can wirelessly stream the music to every speaker in the home and enjoy lossless playback quality, which is far superior to Bluetooth streaming. Play-Fi speakers partners include widely known brands such as Paradigm, Polk, MartinLogan, Definitive Technology and McIntosh. The Play-Fi technology enables seamless streaming across several speaker brands. Furthermore, consumers with ASUS or Acer mobile devices including built-in Play-Fi drivers can remotely control speakers to play back music.HD Radio, a recent addition to the DTS technology portfolio, comes with FM Plus, which is similar to an application program that can be installed on a mobile device to allow users to listen to flowing digital radio broadcast without consuming too much bandwidth. However, this technology is more suitable for places such as India or Mexico where wireless connection speed tends to be low. Mobile devices in Taiwan can be pre-loaded with FM Plus to enhance product appeal and boost sales in emerging countries.Photo: Aaron Chen, general manager of sales at DTS Taiwan Branch Office

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.In its most recent quarterly results, NVIDIA announced record datacenter revenues of US$143 million, up 63% year on year (compared with 9% growth YoY for Intel) and up 47% sequentially, reflecting the enormous growth in deep learning.Hyperscale companies have been the fastest adopters since NVIDIA first began being involved in deep learning three years ago. NVIDIA GPUs today accelerate every major deep learning framework in the world. NVIDIA powers IBM Watson and Facebook's Big Sur server for AI, and the company's GPUs are in AI platforms at hyperscale giants such as Microsoft, Amazon, Alibaba and Baidu for both training and real-time inference. Twitter has recently said they use NVIDIA GPUs to help users discover the right content among the millions of images and videos shared every day.And now with the launch of the NVIDIA DGX-1, the world's first purpose-built system for deep learning and based on NVIDIA's ambitious new Pascal GPU architecture, the company expects increased deep learning adoption within academia and the hyperscale landscape, as well as growing deployment among large enterprises.Neural networksWhen Ng approached machine learning with the Google Brain project, he saw that traditional coding, i.e. writing if-then statements to classify every feature of every object in every image would be too labor intensive for Google's massive video, image, and voice datasets. Instead, Ng used an A.I. algorithm called a Deep Neural Network (DNN) which works by training the computer program with data, without having to write traditional computer code.For neural networks, rather than having to write code to identify what a self-driving car is seeing on the road, or identify what an x-ray image is, researchers implement a framework and then feed it a lot of untagged data - in this case, 10 million YouTube video frames. The network transforms this input data by calculating a weighted sum over the inputs and applies a non-linear function to this transformation to calculate an intermediate state. The combination of these steps is called a neuron layer, and through repetition of these steps, the artificial neural network learns multiple layers of non-linear features, which it then combines in a final layer to create a prediction.However, one main issue with neural networks is that they are computationally greedy, and can thus be quite expensive if they involve too many neurons. Up to that point, most had been designed having 1-10 million connections. Ng wanted to utilize over one billion connections. But while he rethought the software side of the equation by using a DNN to make it more efficient, Ng stuck with a traditional approach on the hardware and simply leveraged 2,000 Google servers (16,000 cores and using 600,000 watts) from its datacenter to create a distributed computing infrastructure for training the neural network, at a cost of millions of dollars.It did not take long for researchers to realize that since neural networks at their core are based on matrix math (non-linear) and floating math, they were inherently well suited to be processed by GPUs, which can have up to 3500 parallel CUDA cores. But researchers were amazed at how well-suited GPUs were. A follow-up experiment was performed using a combination of GPUs and off-the-shelf hardware and the results of Google's neural network training experiment were achieved with just three commodity servers using 12 GPUs.This was a key turning point for deep learning, setting off dramatic growth in the market and perhaps more importantly, democratizing deep learning. There are only a handful of companies in the world that can dedicate 2,000 servers and 600,000 watts of power to a project but to get three servers at a cost of around US$50,000 is affordable enough for any research center at any division of a large company. And customers quickly started housing GPU-based solutions at data centers or plugging makeshift solutions into wall sockets at their offices. Even at the basic level, a single user can buy a GeForce to get going on deep learning or users can even just start accessing GPUs in the cloud.GPUs are not only cost efficient but they also allow researchers to be more productive. As previously mentioned, deep neural networks need to be trained by inputting hundreds of thousands, if not millions of images. This training takes time. For one image-recognition neural network called AlexNet, it took an NVIDIA TITAN X (that sells for less than US$1000) less than three days to train the model using the 1.2 million image ImageNet dataset, compared with over 40 days for a 16-core CPU.That was in 2015, and the results did not satisfy Jen-Hsun Huang, who challenged the company's engineering team to come up with a solution that could have AlexNet trained an order of magnitude faster. And while we all know that Moore's law doesn't improve performance 10x in one year, at this year's NVIDIA GTC (GPU Technology Conference) the DGX 1 was able to train AlexNet in only two hours. This also highlights Huang's commitment to achieving a post-Moore's Law era of computing acceleration, whereby new models are implemented in order to create productivity and efficiency gains. GPU computing is not only a major new computing model but one that is now going mainstream.And it is not just hyperscale firms like Google and Baidu that are taking advantage of deep learning. For example, there are now 19 different automotive companies that have research labs in Silicon Valley. In the medical imaging industry, every big company has big data projects of some kind or another and they are all seeking out NVIDIA. In 2015 alone, the company spoke with 3500 customers to talk about deep learning projects. Interest spans all different industries.The reason NVIDIA is being sought out is that its GPUs are really the ideal processor for the massively parallel problems tackled with deep learning, and the company has optimized its entire stack of platforms, from the architecture to the design, to the system, to the middleware, to the system software, all the way to the work that its does with developers all over the world, so that it can optimize the entire experience to deliver the best performance.For example, the recently launched DGX-1 is the first system designed specifically for deep learning - it comes fully integrated with hardware, deep learning software and development tools for quick, easy deployment.The turnkey system is built on eight NVIDIA Tesla P100 GPUs based on the Pascal GPU architecture. And Pascal is really the first GPU platform that was designed from the ground up for applications such as deep learning that are well beyond computer graphics. Each Tesla P100 GPU is partnered with 16GB memory and the system delivers up to 170 teraflops of half-precision (FP16) peak performance, providing the throughput of 250 CPU-based servers.The DGX-1 features other breakthrough technologies that maximize performance and ease of use, including NVIDIA NVLink high-speed interconnect for maximum application scalability. The GPUs are manufactured using 16nm FinFET fabrication technology and are the largest, most powerful 16nm chip ever built, delivering 15.3 billion transistors on a 600mm2 chip for unprecedented energy efficiency.Key research centers around the world will be receiving the first servers this month, with the customer list including a number of universities such as Stanford, Berkeley, NYU, the University of Toronto and Hong Kong University. Massachusetts General Hospital will also be among the first to get a DGX-1. The hospital launched an initiative that applies AI techniques to improving the detection, diagnosis, treatment, and management of diseases, drawing on its database of some 10 billion medical images. This is the kind of research that the DGX-1 was designed to support.As a turnkey solution the NVIDIA DGX-1 also features a comprehensive deep learning software suite, including NVIDIA Deep Learning GPU Training System (DIGITS), the newly released NVIDIA CUDA Deep Neural Network library (cuDNN) version 5, and a GPU-accelerated library of primitives for designing DNNs. It also includes optimized versions of several widely used deep learning frameworks - Caffe, Theano and Torch.Over the past three years, NVIDIA has seen how quickly the technology has changed in the deep learning community, including with the software. Most of the software used is open source, and while hyperscale companies like Baidu and Google may be very comfortable working in an open source, the same cannot be said for more traditional companies like high-end automotive firms or hospitals. Therefore, NVIDIA will provide services for maintaining and patching the open source software for the DGX-1. A system box can be installed in a data center and connected to NVIDIA's cloud. There, the customers can find their deep learning software and download the latest optimized versions, with NVIDIA patching any bugs that come up. And all the while, all of their data remains secure and never leaves their data centerWhen it comes to deep learning, NVIDIA is seeing deployments not just in one or two customers but basically in every single hyperscale datacenter in the world in every single country. Jen-Hsun Huang thinks this is a very, very big deal and that it is not just a short-term phenomenon. The amount of data that the world processes is just going to keep on growing.For neural networks, researchers do not write code to identify what a self-driving car sees on the road, or identify what an x-ray image is; instead they implement a framework and then feed it a lot of untagged data.

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.1. What are the key products which OCZ would showcase in Computex Taipei 2016?As part of Toshiba we are now seeing a convergence of our client SSD product line, OCZ is now a premium series of solid states drives under the Toshiba portfolio that is specifically designed for high performance consumers. This will be one of our key messages this Computex and we will be showing our updated line of SATA SSDs ranging from our value oriented TR150 series to the high performance VT180 series which is designed for gamers and power users, as well as our brand new RD400 M.2 solid state drive series, designed to propel high-end computing into a new realm of possibilities. The OCZ RD400 PCIe Gen3 x4 outperforms SATA SSDs by over 4.5 times in sequential read (up to 2,600 MB/s), and over 3 times in sequential write performance (up to 1,600 MB/s) so end users will be able to enjoy the storage bandwidth their data-intensive workloads require. The OCZ RD400's next generation NVMe® interface provides a more responsive PC experience and shorter storage latency than that of today's traditional hard disk drives and SATA SSDs. Along with high performance, the OCZ RD400 is designed for mobile, desktop, or workstation applications and will be available both as a standalone M.2 module or AIC (Add-In-Card) version making this solid state solution easy to deploy across the complete spectrum of mobile or desktop platforms, and even enable users to change configurations over time based on their evolving needs.2. Through massive efforts to promote SSD drives and applications, what is the current situation of how industries adapted these storage solutions?SSD technology continues to develop at an increasingly rapid pace and the benefits of SSDs are no secret to customers, whether they are an end user gamer or a hyperscale datacenter architect. Across just about every industry there are opportunities to leverage SSDs to improve the performance of their products and services, and it is very exciting to see all the ways that different industries are leveraging SSDs to provide an even more robust and feature-rich offering to consumers. I am particularly excited about NVM Express, which provides a standards based approach to enabling broad ecosystem adoption and PCIe SSD interoperability. It has never been easier for industries to adopt and leverage the potential of today's latest compact yet high performance PCIe SSDs.3. Various market research highlighted global SSD market posting a high CAGR growth for the next five years, what do you see the SSD market trends?SSDs continue to see positive growth, fueled by use in both client and enterprise applications. SSDs are now becoming the go-to solution for most high performance PCs, and the average capacity is also trending upwards quickly as this adoption accelerates. NVMe is an area where there is going to be rapid adoption, and as customers look for a more compact yet high capacity solution M.2 will likely be the form factor of choice moving forward. In the enterprise market hyperscale customers will continue to be among the earliest adopters of the latest SSDs as their workloads are driving datacenter expansion. This includes hyperscale applications like ingesting and serving content, organizing and preserving information, and computing and analyzing large data sets rapidly and dynamically.4. How does OCZ look at the future of SSD solutions?Toshiba offers a complete spectrum of quality SSD solutions for both enterprise and client applications, and the integration of the OCZ brand within Toshiba has enabled us to focus on what the brand has been known for historically, innovative and high performing products designed for enthusiasts. As the consumer market continues to grow we see a lot of opportunity to address the market with the Toshiba-OCZ branded SSDs as we continue to invest in products that are really designed with the end-user in mind. We want our solid state solutions to be easy to use, more reliable, and improve the computing experience for our customers whether they are working or enjoying the latest games. A few years ago many believed that console gaming would kill PC Gaming, but this clearly has not been the case. PC Gaming is not only alive and well but exclusive titles, eSports, streaming, and even virtual reality, are all driving the need for better storage. We are embracing gamers by introducing products like our RD400 NVMe/PCIe SSD which are designed specifically with their needs in mind.5. Any message for Taiwan?It is no surprise that Taiwan is the home of so many platform providers, and not only do we appreciate all the support that our partners and customers have shown the OCZ brand over the years, but we are even more excited about what we have to offer now that we are under the Toshiba portfolio. I would just like to say thank you to all our valued customers in Taiwan, and rest assured the best is yet to come!The demonstrations of OCZ SSDs can be viewed between the hours of 9:30AM and 5:00PM from May 31st through June 3rd 2016 in private suite at Room #1141 of the Grand Hyatt Taipei Hotel.Alex Mei, Vice President Marketing, GM of Etail/Retail SSDs

Founded in 1986, Leadtek has three decades of experience in delivering high quality visual computing solutions and maintaining reliable supply. The widespread graphics display cards and market activities range Leadtek a unique and unmatched position in Asia. In order to handle the increasing number of design engineers and required graphics power in supporting varying hardware setups and dozens of different applications, Leadtek adopted NVIDIA GRID virtual desktops and application technology to streamline its visual computing server solutions with optimized GPU resources.Meanwhile, with its visual computing product quality steadily reaching new heights and its customer services getting stronger, Leadtek decided to expand into IoT and healthcare sectors since 2000 and gradually penetrated into the market with a series of certifications including Taiwan Ministry of Health and Welfare and comply with EU safety, health and environmental requirements.For further exploring the healthcare solutions, IoT products and cloud servers leverage the strength of virtual desktop Infrastructure (VDI) and dynamic allocation of GPU power, Digitimes had the opportunity to interview with Mr. KS Lu, Leadtek's CEO and president, discuss the company's products showcasing at Computex 2016 and overall outlook for the market in addition to the company's strategy to develop healthcare solutions.From virtualization to deep learning training, Leadtek GPU accelerator product lines serve higher end applicationsThe first highlight in Leadtek Computex booth is virtualization computing product lines. As designer engineers, power users, or knowledge workers looking for highly responsive virtual desktops and increasing user density by allocating more efficiently GPU power through adopted servers to enable applications for viewing 3D-intensive multimedia contents, heavy CAD models and office productivity in a virtualized and secured environment. Leadtek's WinFast GRID Servers and add-on boards deliver high-performance sharing of the GPU across multiple users, optimizes hardware configuration and the NVIDIA's GRID technology. Leadtek's GRID add-on boards are specifically designed to enable securer, faster, interactive graphical experience to a variety of users in virtualized environments. NVIDIA's GRID vGPU (virtual GPU) Manager allows up to 16 users to simultaneously share a single GPU, which instantly increased user density without compromising graphics performance.In the other hand, Leadtek also well integrates with industry-leading virtualization solutions, such as VMware Horizon View, PCoIP Zero Clients to complete a consistent, fully interoperable system. Especially, Zero Client enables all computing resources and data to be transferred to the centralized server in a secure data center and lowers support overheads for IT engineers. The whole system enhances enterprise data management and security over a standard IP network while delivering an enhanced user experience to comply with the increased number and complexity of corporate demands.Mr. Lu also mentioned deep learning technology has become the fundamental building block in delivering amazing cloud solutions for end users. It is a big opportunity for GPU accelerator because the unique strength of memory access and computing power for dramatically reducing training time within hours versus days on CPU based computer systems. The GPU accelerator is quickly aiming to provide the solutions in the high performance computing sector.Leadtek Healthcare Solutions focus on Cardiovascular DiseaseHealthcare solutions are one of the major focuses in Leadtek Computex show booth. These solutions mostly are through the development efforts from ApoDx Technology and Wegene technologies. Both are Leadtek invested companies and subsidiary. Integrated with a comprehensive array of technologies and medical wearable devices including different biochemical sensors, physiological measurement devices for home use and real-time online service, Leadtek aims to deliver complete and real-time cloud solution to provide day-to-day health management to the patients of cardiovascular disease and workaholic burnout syndrome by measuring various physiological data.This is because Leadtek believes that day-to-day health management is a better solution compared to treatment. With integrated with core medical technologies, Leadtek's amor H1 Mini-ECG Recorder provides features precise measurement of the user's heart rate variability (HRV) statistics. Coupled with the amor H1 APP that provides statistics charts and sent various physiological data wirelessly to the Leadtek's amorRunner Cloud server which is embedded in the Leadtek virtualization infrastructure, users will not only be able to keep track of their workout results but also facilitate the activity to achieve better physical fitness.The benefits of leveraging its virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) and dynamic allocation of GPU power to virtual machines via vGPU, Mr. Lu continued, the current Leadtek's healthcare solutions are trying to integrate with AUDICOR technologies. This is one of the best exercises to help physicians to provide a powerful clinical tool that integrates heart sound detection and analysis with electrocardiography (ECG) for earlier diagnosis of cardiac patients at high risk. Through this optimized healthcare services and utilized AUDICOR technologies in its integration, Mr. Lu highlighted proudly, it is going to have huge opportunity to help human to reduce mortality and morbidity in cardiovascular disease every year.The Leadtek's healthcare solutions are going to launch with Taiwan hospitals together in this year. It is also targeting the medical corporate projects with worldwide hospitals.The medial IoT solutions for assisting further health care of patientsThrough the integration of daily healthcare solutions and features such as medical wearable devices which collect day-to-day physiological data of patients, Leadtek is trying to integrate its home video surveillance technologies and global positioning service (GPS) for introducing medical IoT solutions. For patients recovering at home or nursing facilities after surgery, once the alarm is triggered, the Leadtek solutions bring together IP camera, network video recorder (NVR) Servers, alarm devices and a central management system (CMS) automatically stream images from the location to the manager's mobile device. Coupled with the indoor Beacon and outdoor GPS services, the precise location of the event or patient will be shown on the map to shorten response time and ensure none of the golden hour is wasted. So Healthcare Professional Provider can provide remote care for patients when issues occur. Leadtek has created a well-rounded cloud services for health and safety care in its healthcare integration.Leadtek will also be featuring wearable devices and healthcare products using its brand name "amor" in the market. These products are also developed for the people with poor blood circulation including Far Infrared Wave Nano Band. To see more Leadtek's products, Mr. Lu welcomes guests to visit Computex Booth# A0813a at TWTC Exhibition Hall 1 to jointly explore Healthcare, medical IoT cloud-based solutions, desktop virtualization computing, and more. For detailed product information, please visit: http://www.leadtek.com/Mr. KS Lu, Leadtek's CEO and president human to reduce mortality and morbidity in cardiovascular disease every year

EVEN Systems has always been a POS system provider that is able to stay ahead of market trends by establishing close collaboration with local partners throughout North America, Europe and Asia. These partners' in-depth understandings on the local industries help EVEN Systems grasp evolving market developments and design new products meeting market demand. At Computex 2016, EVEN Systems demonstrates new products targeting three major application fields – all-in-one computer, mPOS and healthcare touch screen solutions, which are results of refined design ingenuity made possible through in-depth understanding of user needs. Jia-Wei Chang, sales manager, sales department, EVEN Systems, points out the company presents its all-in-one systems including StealthTouch II, S-Line II and Cyprus series at Computex 2016. Compared to its predecessor, StealthTouch II is designed with a double hinge at the base so the system can be adjusted to face different angles from standing vertically at 90 degrees to lying flat at 180 degrees to accommodate for counter height in the field and user preference. EVEN Systems' distribution partners can also choose to fold StealthTouch II systems during shipping to save transportation costs with more compact packages. DASH T3 enables a high level of integration to meet diverse application requirements S-Line II that integrates an all-in-one computer with a printer is an upgrade from the previous generation by moving the hard drive from the base to behind the touch screen such that the base, only holding the printer, can be significantly reduced in size. Furthermore, S-Line II still has the patented slider design that has always been highly acclaimed by customers. It allows the printer to be quickly replaced in just a few simple steps. The Cyprus series has a new computer and base design with a dashing, streaming style and color choices in silver and black to offer an alternative to the traditional heavy and dark model that is unpopular with most European customers. Chang emphasizes the new generation EVEN Systems all-in-one computer offerings are all designed to be cable-free. The intricately designed cable tray placement hides the wire chaos to achieve a neat and aesthetic system appearance. In addition, EVEN Systems is fully capable of a wide variety of customizations to meet customer requirements including adjustments to the color of the all-in-one system or the dimension and style of the base. In terms of mPOS, EVEN Systems features DASH T3 at Computex 2016. Chang indicates DASH T3 is being used in a rapidly growing number of applications, such as wall mounted DASH T3 at wholesale stores for consumers to conveniently check merchandise costs and purchase history, tableside DASH T3 at restaurants for ordering meals and DASH T3 used with a fingerprint reader by businesses as an employee attendance system. DASH T3 is able to satisfy a host of different uses by integrating a variety of peripherals and thereby turning into different application devices achieving various operation purposes. Amid the red hot IoT trend today, DASH T3 can also be used in combination with multiple sensor devices, transcending its original point-of-sale role to take on the task of data collection for subsequent big data analysis and create additional values for business owners. DASH T3 enables diverse form factors. The standard base allows connection to two USB devices. An L-shaped low-profile metal base and a wall-mounted base are also available. There is a uniquely designed space underneath the base for the user to hide the transformer to keep the system looking neat. CarisTouch for healthcare applications is additionally available with 18.5-inch screens EVEN Systems' healthcare touch screen products are essentially all-in-one computers originally available with 15-, 17- and 21-inch screens. However, some American and European customers have indicated that 15- and 17-inch screens are too small and 21-inch screens are too large so EVEN Systems has decided to add a new flagship model CT18 in its CarisTouch series and hopes the 18.5-inch screen will satisfy the needs of most healthcare facilities. "CT18 not only provides a different screen size from past products but also enables a surprisingly high level of integration with peripherals," said Chang. The most common application of the CarisTouch series is in mobile medical vehicles where power supply is a big problem to users and the insufficient number of USB ports is also a source of complaint. To address these issues, CT18 offers as many as five USB ports and embeds a built-in IC card reader to free up USB ports. Furthermore, CT18 is ingeniously designed with a Clean Me button, which when pressed by a healthcare professional can temporarily switch off the touch control function to enable quick cleaning of the screen. More importantly, CT18 substitutes the conventional design of using a single large battery in a mobile medical vehicle with an embedded replaceable battery to maximize the effectiveness of mobile healthcare. The considerate feature shows how skilled EVEN Systems is at capturing the subtle details of end user needs. Even Systems will reveal the latest product offerings at Computex 2016