The largest ICT trade show in Asia and the second largest in the world, Computex Taipei 2014, attracting over 130,000 visitors, including 38,000 international visitors with 1,700 exhibitors using 5,000 booths, will be held during 6/3-6/7. The motherboard leading manufacturer ECS will demonstrate product diversity and innovation along with the new product announcement during this event. Welcome to find out more at ECS Booth L0118 Nangang Hall, Taipei.After Intel released its 9-Series chipset in May 2014, ECS' high-end gaming brand, L337 GAMING, has launched its brand-new Z97-MACHINE with Intel Z97 Express chipset, a gaming-oriented motherboard with world-class ESS SABRE audio to rock gamers' sounding experience. Also two new L337 GAMING family members with ITX form factor, Z97I-DRONE and H97I-DRONE, will be globally announced at Computex. Besides gaming motherboards, ECS emphasizes the importance of customer satisfaction and tries to fulfill different aspects of motherboard applications, such as multimedia, business, and industrial PC, ECS provides a total solution for different needs. Other than motherboards, the highly asked LIVA Mini PC Kit, recently released in Taiwan and Japan, will be the most anticipated highlight at Computex. With only 190g, a PC consumes just as a light bulb, LIVA is not only the world's smallest Windows-based mini PC kit but also a milestone of how people change the perception of using computers. At LIVA Section at ECS Booth, there will be the "Design Your Own LIVA" competition final. All the participants are able to vote for the masterpieces and get the opportunities to win grand prizes. As of the growing all-in-one PC, ECS shows great determination in introducing innovation. G24 with 4K Ultra HD monitor demonstrates astonishing visual possibility and only 3100g V20 with fan-less thermal design defines brilliant sounding in silence.Besides the exciting ECS new products, there will be plenty of shows and activities, and a special bonus will be presented to ECS visitors during Computex. Come visit ECS Booth at Computex Taipei 2014.About ECS (Elitegroup Computer Systems)ECS, the Elitegroup Computer Systems, was established in 1987, and is approaching its 27th year of business. More than two decades, ECS has overcome a great deal of obstacles facing new businesses and has experienced the joy of significant growth and development. Its main focus has expanded to not only motherboards, but also desktop and notebook computers, graphics cards and other mobile products. ECS is strongly committed to develop cutting-edge technology in order to generate innovative products under environmental friendly designs. ECS comprehensive system of quality control provides our clients with reassurance and fosters long term cooperation. Visit http://www.ecs.com.tw to learn more.

Conexant has announced at Computex the CX20952, a new HD Audio CODEC that enables high quality audio on computers and tablets with low power consumption, two cap-free headphone amplifiers, and a fully-integrated Class-D amplifier. Part of Conexant's AudioSmart family, the new CX20952 is also an intelligent device: a single-chip solution that monitors power delivered to speakers, ensuring maximum sound pressure level (SPL) and optimal performance without damage to system components.Differentiated from standalone smart amplifier solutions, Conexant's fully-integrated CX20952 enables a smaller motherboard footprint and lower bill of materials (BOM) cost for applications that do not require the high output power of a large, discrete device. The new SoC is designed to meet consumer demand for high quality audio that pushes the limits of sound in tablets and compact PCs.With two cap-free HP/Line outputs and a universal jack that automatically detects and configures itself to support CTIA (Apple) or OMTP (Nokia) style headsets, Conexant's high quality CX20952 solution delivers the following key features required for low-power, small form factor devices:- Support for multiple peripheral types (headphones, headsets, powered speakers, microphones and line-in devices) with a single 3.5mm audio jack.- Support for an additional direct-drive headphone output on a docking station or second jack panel.- Loud, clear audio playback from small speakers in space-limited enclosures (typical of today's compact industrial designs)."Consumers are beginning to expect the same high level of performance and clarity from audio as they have become accustomed to with HD video," noted Saleel Awsare, Conexant vice president and general manager. "Our entire AudioSmart product line is designed to address users' high expectations for a better, clearer, richer audio experience - and the new CX20952 does it all in a single chip."Additional features include:- Stereo AudioSmart Class-D Speaker Amplifier for intelligent delivery of up to 2.8W per channel - Integrated Hardware EQ/DRC with SpeakerShield Class-D protection- Mono Output with tunable hardware LPF/BPF for subwoofer applications- Up to four digital microphones supporting advanced configurations for tablets, convertibles, clamshells and AIOs - Analog PC BEEP, EAPD and GPIOs- I2C interface allowing real-time software control of auxiliary devices- D3 Live supporting pass-through audio playback to Class-D with active EQ/DRC while system is asleepComputex attendees are encouraged to stop by Conexant's suite at Pacific Business Center PBC Hotel, Meeting Room D during the show to get a first-hand look at the new audio CODEC in action. Please visit www.conexant.com for more details.About ConexantConexant Systems, Inc., an audio and imaging innovation leader, combines its significant IP portfolio in DSP, analog and mixed signal technology with embedded software to deliver highly innovative silicon and software solutions to enrich and expand audio and imaging capabilities. Both enterprise and consumer markets are addressed by Conexant's AudioSmart and ImagingSmart solutions. Products with the company's technology built-in include PCs, tablet computers, TVs, headsets, printers, video monitors, game consoles and a variety of other devices. Founded in 1999, Conexant is a privately-held fabless semiconductor company headquartered in Irvine, Calif. with offices and design centers worldwide. To learn more, please visit www.conexant.com.Contact:Stephanie OlsenLages & Associates(949) 453-8080stephanie@lages.com

PROMISE Technology, a storage industry global leader, has announced that it will showcase its complete line of storage solutions for the cloud/IT, video surveillance and rich media markets, including the new Pegasus2 M4, Vess R2000 high-availability NAS, and VTrak G-Class NAS Gateway, at Computex Taipei 2014.Computex is an important event that offers an excellent platform for PROMISE to engage our partners and customers and to showcase our customer-oriented solutions for the cloud/IT, video surveillance and rich media markets, like the Pegasus2 R8 which was named the top storage solution at this year's show, said James Lee, CEO, PROMISE Technology. "A major theme for PROMISE at Computex is to demonstrate how we have evolved from a storage component designer and manufacturer to a leading solution developer and the full-scale demos we have prepared will illustrate exactly how the company is addressing the most pressing challenges facing our customers."Featuring a range of cloud solutions from IaaS to SaaS, PROMISE will showcase a portfolio of storage solutions that enables users to expand their capabilities, whether they require a robust cloud infrastructure or innovative applications, including FileCruiser, PROMISE's Enterprise File Synchronization and Sharing solution that is ideal for a wide range of vertical markets, including education, healthcare, SMB and enterprise IT, governments and more. Additionally, for SMB and Enterprise IT customers, the new Vess R2000 high availability dual controller NAS solution will be demoed to illustrate how it can be deployed in virtualization, backup and many more environments.With the growing adoption of 4K video, content creators are faced with serious infrastructure challenges as they require more capacity and there are latency and bandwidth issues. PROMISE will showcase its end-to-end storage solutions that will help creative professionals be 4K-ready, including Pegasus2 with Thunderbolt 2 which provides performance for content creators who need storage on the field and can connect directly to the VTrak A-Class shared storage appliance. Additionally, the demos will feature the new VTrak G1100 NAS Gateway which provides 10Gb Ethernet access to the A-Class appliance, allowing multiple users to simultaneously edit video for post-production and broadcasting.Video surveillance plays an increasingly important role for many businesses and organizations and PROMISE's Vess A2000 storage appliances will be featured in demos with video management software from Milestone Systems and AxxonSoft. The demonstrations provide an in-depth look at the innovative solutions that enable customers to efficiently manage higher resolution video while providing reliable access to content at impressive speeds with a robust infrastructure that serves as a secure foundation for an effective IP video surveillance platform. Additionally, guests can try the Surveillance Solution Planner and see firsthand how this valuable tool from PROMISE makes it easier to design a solution for the requirements of each project.For more information, join PROMISE in Taipei at booth #J0418 at the NanGang Exhibition Center from June 3-7.

GIGABYTE Technology, a leading IT product manufacturer will showcase a new IoT solution at Computex: a BRIX mini-PC coupled with the Intel Gateway Solution for Internet of Things (IoT). This solution features a pre-installed software and hardware platform containing a Wind River Linux 5.01, and security and management features. GIGABYTE expects to simplify the deployment of IoT products for its customers as the solution allows secure data aggregation, filtering, and analysis from edge devices to the cloud through Ethernet or WiFi connections.As an associate member of the Intel IoT Solutions Alliance, GIGABYTE understands that customers require readily-available solutions to tackle the complexity of IoT infrastructure. That is why GIGABYTE has worked with Intel to develop this compact size system integrated with the Intel Gateway Solution as an intelligent internet gateway product. Intel and GIGABYTE have been working together to accelerate the development and deployment of the Internet of Things, which in turn helps to drive business transformation.Measuring only 4.2 x 4.5 x 2.2 inches, the BRIX is a compact system designed for IoT applications such as power grid, factory automation and much more. The BRIX offers a LPC header onboard which can be extended to four COM connections for sensors or data aggregation control devices, a Gigabit Ethernet LAN port, a USB 3.0 and two USB 2.0 ports. In addition, it also comes with one half-size mini PCIe slot that supports a Wi-Fi network card.The BRIX is pre-installed with the Intel Gateway Solution for IoT which bundles the Wind River Linux 5.01, Wind River IDP 2.0, McAfee security functionalities, and a wide variety of connectivity protocols and programming environments. This brings the benefits of IoT to legacy infrastructures with device management and data sharing through a system. Customers do not need to replace existing infrastructure and are able to securely aggregate, share, and filter data from the edge to the cloud and finally, are able to focus on new value-added services thanks to this turnkey solution.We cordially invite you to visit us at COMPUTEX 2014, booth D0002 in TWTC Hall 1 and experience our innovative development. To learn more about GIGABYTE Intelligent IoT Gateway, please visit b2b.gigabyte.comPhoto: Compnay

Shuttle, an industry-leading designer and manufacturer of small form factor (SFF) PC solutions and mobile internet devices, is highlighting its latest innovations during Computex 2014. Shuttle is showcasing its high-performance XPCs, digital signage players, its EDUPAL education solution, as well as its ODM designs at their head office on June 2-7, 2014.In 2010, the consumer PC manufacturer launched its "Application PC for Business" platform and has seen great success across vertical markets. Rooted in 30 years of SFF research and design, the company has demonstrated its ability to provide reliable products that can be integrated with a variety of software to meet the needs of diverse industries.New from ShuttleMini-computer hardware for vertical ARM-based signage hardware: DSA2LS and DSA2LVIn response to growing market demand for cost-effective media players, Shuttle designed an ARM-based player and motherboard solution. The series includes the DSA2LS signage player and DSA2LV motherboard both made to deliver quality media with a Freescale i.MX6DL 1Ghx dual-core processor and Full-HD 1080p playback capability.Windows-based signage players: Entry-level to high-performanceShuttle has a number of signage players, including players made to drive video walls with 4K imaging, support fanless Intel Bay Trail technology and high-performance Intel Haswell/Haswell Refresh technology, and players made to connect with multiple peripherals. Whether for entry-level or high-performance applications, Shuttle has built in as much flexibility and performance into each product as possible to support the latest digital signage innovations in each segment.EDUPAL Smart School SolutionEDUPAL is the most holistic solution in today's education market. Over the past five years, Shuttle's R&D team has worked meticulously on their education solution, EDUPAL. EDUPAL is an industry-leading Android-based educational solution designed with innovative and user-friendly UI with proven success to enhance the learning process in school systems.For classroom useEDUPAL Classroom is dedicated to teachers and students in their daily classroom process. It includes two classroom management interfaces, "PC to Pad" or "Pad to Pad", allowing teachers to effectively manage classrooms while better understanding a student's learning process in class.For school managementEDUPAL School is for school administrators and is designed to create a modern learning environment that syncs teachers, students, and parents on an easy-to-manage digital platform. It includes EDUPAL Classroom management products with options for E-Library and Homework expansion packs to enhance students' reading and out-of-class learning.For government and large scale education institutionsEDUPAL Cloud integrates is a complete package which includes EDUPAL School and EDUPAL Classroom products and is made to help governments and educational institutions manage multiple school districts. EDUPAL Cloud helps build up smart school education systems that sync the classroom, the school, and the department of education together on a digital cloud.Digital library in schoolEDUPAL Library features a strong content management backend system which supports e-reader tool and helps publishers and school administrators build a content protected platform to manage digital content. For end-users like teachers and students, EDUPAL Library provides a resource that is easily accessible from mobile devices anywhere.Shuttle ODM 2-in-1 and Windows-ARM tabletShuttle's ODM business has been focusing on the LOEM market sector since 2010, while gradually gaining worldwide LOEM customers' recognition for its innovative ecosystem. Shuttle has improved its supply-chain and generated new SPA (Shuttle Standard PCBA) form factor technology, providing its customers a more competitive ODM service. This COMPUTEX Shuttle is going to introduce its latest product line-up which includes 2-in-1 tablets and Windows-ARM tablets made with sleek IDs and competitive cost structure.Shuttle introduces its first ARM-based digital signage solution with Android operating systemPhoto: CompanyMore than 4,000 teachers and students use EDUPAL solution in daily teaching and learningPhoto: CompanyAbout ShuttleFounded in 1983 in Taiwan, Shuttle Inc. is one of the world's leading electronics manufacturers in providing trusted and innovative computing hardware and software solutions for home, business, and vertical application.With 30 years' motherboard and graphics card manufacturing and leading in small form factor barebone design, Shuttle now offers a full product line of consumer and commercial electronics, including barebone, All-in-One PCs, NAS, notebooks, tablets, digital signage players, facial recognition systems, educational turnkey solution and others. For more information, visit www.shuttle.com

Over the past 10 years the commercial computing market has been enamored with the idea of being able to move data and heavy computation to a central resource, where it can be accessible by the many rather than just the one. You hear about it when companies trumpet cloud computing and discuss virtualization, especially in the context of virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI), client consolidation infrastructure (CCI) and hosted virtual desktops (HVD). While the market potential for virtualization is huge, it has remained widely untapped. However, when NVIDIA launched its Kepler-based GRID virtual GPU (vGPU) solutions last year, for the first time, the market saw true hardware virtualization of the GPU. Since then, an excited ecosystem has been gearing up for a much wider virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) in the corporate PC market. NVIDIA has made key partnership deals with hypervisor suppliers Citrix and VMware, OEM server hardware suppliers IBM, Dell, HP among others, and NVIDIA is now inviting the market to test drive NVIDIA GRID virtual GPUs with their favorite software free of charge. The company recently launched an online trial of GRID technology and Taiwan are the first markets outside of the U.S. to have access. Solving the Challenges of Virtualization There are currently more than 700 million PCs available in the commercial PC market but the penetration rate for virtualization has remained low at only 3.5%, even as more and more enterprises are realizing the benefits of leaving big data in a central datacenter, rendering it on a server, and shipping only encoded rendered pixels to the client. The main issue with virtualization is that computing is a visual experience and up to this point using a virtual desktop interface (or VDI) has delivered less than stellar results in terms of giving users a level of visual experience they have grown accustomed to on their PCs. To put it more precisely, every PC has a graphics processor of some kind, even tablets and smartphones have a graphics processor - customers wouldn't use them otherwise, but VDI continues to be driven by CPU-centric server designs. Under such a scenario, a hypervisor sits on the server and runs virtual machines whose graphics are rendered by the server CPU. This method is incredibly inefficient. Even running a Microsoft Windows 7 desktop requires DirectX 9 support, meaning it needs to be rendered on a GPU. To do that in a data center requires a large amount of server resources and this has not really been a financially attractive option for enterprises. So as a result, the VDI market has mostly targeted the 100 million or so PCs that focus on data input and simple office productivity applications - the realm of the task worker. The rest of the market - the more than 600 million knowledge workers, power users and even designers have been left mostly untapped. Kepler the key ingredient It is a bit misleading to say that GPUS have not been used in the datacenter for certain applications and that deployment in these areas can be effective; however they do have limitations. One solution being used is GPU sharing, where the hypervisor lets the client application behave as though it has its own dedicated GPU, while the server GPU responds to one master host. GPU sharing has been a reasonable solution for some companies, but it not ideal. Since a shim driver lives in the guest OS instead of a native graphics driver, not all applications are served well by that shim driver. And, when an enterprise has a long list of applications that need to be compatible with the virtualized environment, the GPU sharing method becomes difficult to manage. An alternative solution has been to provide dedicated physical GPUs in servers implementing GPU pass-through. Unlike the rest of the physical system components, which are represented as multiple virtual instances to multiple clients by the hypervisor, the pass-through GPU is not abstracted at all, but remains one physical device. Each hosted virtual machine gets its own dedicated GPU, eliminating the software abstraction and the performance penalty that goes with it. However, shortcomings in both models have prevented widespread deployment. For, example, the software overhead for GPU sharing constrains performance as the user count rises. And the physically dedicated GPU relationship of GPU pass-through misses out on the point of large-scale virtualization - the ability to supporting multiple clients with one shared computing resource. With GRID, however, NVIDIA has been able to deliver 2D/3D imaging and 100% API support, while being able to scale with the number of concurrent users (CCUs), thus giving GPU-accelerated rendering broader appeal. The key has been Kepler, which implements a Memory Management Unit (MMU) that maps and translates a host's virtual address to the system's physical address, with each process working in its own virtual address space. Kepler also has 256 independent input buffers, each dedicated to a different host, separating each VM's command stream into independent rendering contexts. This combination of an address-space unifying MMU and a VM-specific MMU provides for a true virtual GPU that can serve multiple CCUs without the performance and latency penalty of excessive software overhead. Expanding the market Under a VDI using GRID vGPUs, NVIDIA has made it possible for all graphics to be rendered in the cloud, freeing up the end point device from having to have specific requirements. What is displayed on the client is can be as simple as an h.264 stream, meaning anything that can play a YouTube video can view and modify the file. This could revolutionize some key industries such as 3D designing and video processing that are used to copying data to the client for processing. These industries are seeing dramatic growth in the volume of visual computing data that needs to be processed and the manipulation of files that measure in the hundreds of gigabytes if not terabytes. Copying the raw data from datacenter to datacenter can waste a lot of time. It makes much more sense to leave big data in a central datacenter, rendering it on a server, and then ship only the rendered pixels to the client. Moreover, peripheral business users, such as in marketing, sales engineering departments and in procurement departments, will be able to access the visual data remotely to tap into a single, up-to-date project database at any point in the workflow. These power users and knowledge workers may not be directly engaged in product creation, but their work still depends on being able to quickly, accurately view and mark up project material. In terms of market opportunities, it may seem easy to understand the opportunities for 3D engineering but what is much harder to understand and what the industry has been missing for quite a while is the benefits for average workers and their reliance on Microsoft Windows 7, which is the most pervasive graphics application in the world. The Windows 7 desktop requires DirectX 9, while office productivity applications also increasingly rely on multimedia and complex graphics. Even Internet usage without HTML 5.0 support is not visually compelling. So, while a single user may be able to get away with a CPU-based VDI or previous versions of shared GPU, such solutions cannot scale for larger enterprises, which was a previous sticking point for companies looking at virtualization. With GRID vGPUs, performance results will improve to the point where companies can make decisions on considerations other than "it just doesn't look good." This means the market is moving to a new opportunity whereby not only the 225 million designers and power users could benefit, but the 600 million knowledge workers could benefit from virtualization as well. Building an ecosystem No company had ever been able to virtualize a GPU before NVIDIA released its GRID vGPUs so there was no widespread ecosystem support. NVIDIA has been working closely with industry partners over the past year to transition the market and make GRID vGPU a viable solution for the enterprise. Hypervisor vendors need to build vGPU support into their technology, while server OEMs need to include GRID vGPUs in their servers. NVIDIA has also been working with customers to implement test trials. In terms of hypervisor support, Citrix was agile and quickly began supporting NVIDIA GRID vGPUs with its Citrix XenServer. Citrix's support helped NVIDIA grow its base of company trials by 10-fold in one year, from a handful of trials to to over 500 enterprises now. VMware announced it will begin supporting NVIDIA GRID vGPU later this year, and with the market share of its VMware ESX hypervisor approaching 80%, it should spur even more interest in NVIDIA GRID. Under NVIDIA'S relationship with VMware, In addition to providing virtualization of GPU under a private data center scenario, it will also support VMware's Horizon DaaS (Desktop as a Service) platform that can support public and hybrid clouds. Currently, VMware supports about 19 partners, with Navasite currently being first in the process of deploying NVIDIA GRID for enabling virtual desktops. This opens up the opportunity for deploying a hybrid cloud, which would consist of an onsite premise deployment and then additional capacity for customers would be deployed by using a cloud hosted environment. On the hardware side, NVIDIA has signed up all the major global hardware OEMs to deliver GRID vGPUs installed. Cisco, Dell, IBM, Fujitsu, HP, Asustek, TYAN, Supermicro and Quanta Cloud Technology(QCT) are all supporting GRID. These products are not just niche products. The HP ProLiant DL380 is the number one server in the world in terms of shipments and the Dell PowerEdge R720 is right behind. These are the models that are supporting NVIDIA GRID. Test drive NVIDIA GRID virtual GPUs Because the virtual GPU market is so new, NVIDIA realizes that customers are struggling with believing the benefits of VDI due to their previous disappointing results with virtualization. Therefore, NVIDIA is now offering customers the ability totest-drive its cloud-delivered graphics acceleration for enterprise applications. Customers no longer need to invest large amounts of time or money to build a proof-of-concept private cloud; they can simply test benefits of graphics acceleration for virtualized desktops. NVIDIA is confident that it can deliver a better experience for remote desktops and applications, can run graphics-rich applications in a virtualized environment, and can handles complex graphics files and images. Customers are invited to take the free GRID test drive at http://www.nvidia.com/trygrid. Will Wade, Director, GRID Product Line, NVIDIAPhoto: Company

WD, a Western Digital (NASDAQ: WDC) company, and world leader in storage solutions, will be demonstrating the first PCI Express hard drives at Computex Taipei, June 3-4, 2014. Enabled with key technology partners, WD's prototype introduces the new SATA Express interface, a form of PCI Express technology, which is offered on recently launched Intel series-9 chipset motherboard platforms. The SATA Express interface provides a roadmap for faster speeds, lower power consumption and increased flexibility for future OEM designs.The road to the world's first demonstration of SATA Express has been in development for almost 3 years. In 2011, SATA-IO, the group responsible for charting the future of SATA, announced that it was developing a new specification that would fundamentally change the core technology behind SATA by melding it with the more advanced PCI Express computer interface. In 2013, the SATA Express specification was announced; and just one year later, WD and selected partners have realized a prototype of what is expected to be the next generation of storage technology.By moving to PCI Express, the industry marries the world's most popular storage bus with the world's most popular computer bus. This union provides a solid growth path to innovate new capability, while preserving the ability to plug legacy SATA drives into new SATA Express based computers. In another innovation, SATA Express allows cable connections with lower costs, by removing the PCI Express Sync line via SRIS (Separate RefClock with Independent SSC), which lowers the overall cable cost."WD has been at the forefront of SATA technology, and we see a vibrant growth path for adoption of the future SATA Express Roadmap," said Matt Rutledge, senior vice president, storage technology, WD. "SATA will remain a standard for many years in many applications, and for customers who want to discuss a future beyond vanilla SATA, WD is ready to plan the future with them."The SATA Express interface will be demonstrated in systems from WD's key partners at Computex to show the operational interface with their new platforms. This new SATA Express infrastructure allows customers to work with SSDs, SSHDs, and HDDs on a single common bus.WD's demonstration prototype leverages standard AHCI drivers and is compatible with all known, currently supported client operating system releases."SATA Express is a breakthrough interface for internal storage. As a pioneer and leading provider of SATA Express host solutions, ASUS is glad to see exciting new devices demonstrated in the market. The SRIS-enabled SATA Express technology has been carefully engineered in selected ASUS 9 Series motherboards for great compatibility with SATA Express devices. The complete ASUS SATA Express solution together with the WD hard drive will be showcased at the ASUS booth M0410," said Joe Hsieh, Corporate Vice President and General Manager of ASUS Motherboard Business Unit and Desktop Business Unit."With the launch of the Intel 9 series chipset, GIGABYTE is excited to bring several new motherboards to the market that supports the very latest SATA Express technology," commented Colin Brix, Director of Marketing of GIGABYTE Motherboard Business Unit. "As an industry leader in the storage space, WD is one of the first vendors to demonstrate SATA Express devices, and GIGABYTE is thrilled to be able to demo one of their latest drives at Computex so we can show our customers just how much faster PCI Express based SATA Express is than previous generations."Kevin Peterson, WD's Senior Director of Platform Engineering showcasing the first PCI Express hard drive, equipped with the new SATA Express interface.Photo: CompanyAbout WDWD, a Western Digital company, is a long-time innovator and storage industry leader. As a storage technology pacesetter, the company produces reliable, high-performance hard disk drives and solid state drives. These drives are deployed by OEMs and integrators in desktop and mobile computers, enterprise computing systems, embedded systems and consumer electronics applications, as well as by the company in providing its own storage products. WD's leading storage devices and systems, networking products, media players and software solutions empower people around the world to easily save, store, protect, share and experience their content on multiple devices. WD was established in 1970 and is headquartered in Irvine, California. For more information, please visit the company's website at www.wd.com.Western Digital Corp. (NASDAQ: WDC), Irvine, Calif., is a global provider of products and services that empower people to create, manage, experience and preserve digital content. Its companies design and manufacture storage devices, networking equipment and home entertainment products under the WD, HGST and G-Technology brands. Visit the Investor section of the company's website (www.westerndigital.com) to access a variety of financial and investor information.

Intel president Renee James has unveiled several new innovations at Computex 2014 including a SoC platform for entry-level mobile devices, 14nm fanless mobile PC reference design, new CPUs and technologies.Noting progress toward bringing the company's first integrated mobile SoC platform for entry and value smartphones and tablets to market in the fourth quarter of this year (2014), James made the first public phone call using a smartphone reference design based on the dual-core Intel SoFIA 3G solution. Intel will also bring a quad-core SoFIA LTE part to market in the first half of 2015 and last week announced a strategic agreement with Rockchip to add a quad-core SoFIA 3G derivative for entry-level tablets to the SoFIA family, also due in the first half of next year.James also revealed the company's 14nm fanless mobile PC reference design. The 2-in-1 is a 12.5-inch screen that is 7.2mm thin with keyboard detached and weighs 670g. It includes a media dock that provides additional cooling. The design is based on the first of Intel's next-generation 14nm Broadwell processors that are purpose-built for 2-in-1s and will be in market later this year. The reference design is powered by Intel's Core M processor for energy efficiency.James introduced the fourth-generation Intel Core i7 and i5 processors "K" SKU, deliver four cores at up to 4GHz base frequency. The desktop processor, built for enthusiasts will start production shipments begin in June of this year.For the data center I/O needs, James introduced the Intel Solid-State Drive Data Center Family for PCIe to meet the increasing need for high-performance, consistent and reliable storage solutions in the data center while helping to lower total cost of ownership. The drives will be broadly available in the third quarter of this year.In order for computing to become more personal, James said it needs to meet people on their own terms, making interaction more natural and intuitive. She highlighted collaborations and new advances to bring Intel RealSense technology and 3D cameras and supporting applications to a growing number of 2-in-1, all-in-one, tablet and other personal computing devices.James said that the Intel RealSense software development kit 2014 will be made available to developers in the third quarter of 2014, providing opportunity for developers of all skill levels to create natural, intuitive user interfaces.Intel 14nm fanless mobile PC reference designPhoto: Company

As part of Toshiba, OCZ Storage Solutions is able to leverage Toshiba's NAND and combine it with its proprietary controllers, firmware and software. Toshiba's financial strength has also put OCZ in a better position to compete in the rapidly growing SSD market.Alex Mei, CMO at OCZ Storage Solutions recently spoke about the company's plans during Computex Taipei 2014 and its outlook for the year ahead.Q: What are the hot products OCZ will be showcasing at Computex 2014?A: We are excited to return to Computex as this is always a good show for us in terms of meeting with our partners, customers and media. This year we are showcasing our complete line of client and enterprise solid state solutions including our recently launched RevoDrive 350 PCIe SSD as well as our enterprise class Intrepid SATA series. We are also unveiling our latest addition to the award winning Vector SATA SSD family, the Vector 180 which leverages our proprietary Barefoot 3 controller with the latest generation Toshiba NAND and adds new enterprise features including partial PFAIL protection. We are seeing the lines blur between high end workstation drives and hyperscale/datacenter server SSDs and this product is designed to bridge that gap.Q: Recently OCZ launched a new PCIe SSD (RevoDrive 350), what is the main significant advantage using PCIe interface? What is the difference compared to other SSD using SATA Express standard?A: The RevoDrive 350 is designed for customers requiring high performance and is able to achieve three times the performance of SATA-based SSDs, delivering RAID like performance in a single easy to deploy single card solution. The RevoDrive 350 is based on our proven performance architecture and features 19nm Toshiba NAND to complete our portfolio transition to in-house flash, offering a high-performance yet cost-efficient SSD for bandwidth-intensive applications. This exciting new drive provides customers with workstation-grade design capabilities and maximum performance for professional content creation, multimedia, and extreme gaming. RevoDrive 350 is able to reach up up to 1.8GB/s sequential speeds and up to 140,000 4K random write IOPS thanks to the PCIe Gen. 2 x8 interface and multiple LSI SF-2282 processors to offer more bandwidth than the previous generation. Enabling both performance and functionality for applications ranging from scientific computing to extreme gaming systems, this workstation-class storage product also leverages our unique and proprietary Virtualized Controller Architecture (VCA) 2.0 to deliver highly efficient performance aggregation while reducing the burden on host resources, effectively accelerating application performance and taking full advantage of today's multithreaded processors and software. RevoDrive 350 also supports up to 50GB of host writes per day for 3 years to provide leading endurance for media professionals over less robust consumer SSDs.Q: How did OCZ and the storage market as a whole perform over the past year?A: The entire market for SSDs continues to grow and it is great to see the technology being utilized in everything from OEM laptops to enterprise cloud computing applications. There are so many demand drivers for SSDs that we are seeing adoption only accelerate as the need to store and manage data continues to grow. Last year was a transition period for OCZ and while we had the controller, firmware and application software technology already in-house it was becoming increasingly difficult to compete without the direct access to NAND. Today as part of the Toshiba Group we now have all the necessary technology pieces and are once again able to focus on delivering leading-edge products for our client and enterprise customers.Q: After the Toshiba-OCZ combination, what advantages bring to OCZ?A: Now that we are a Toshiba Group Company, one of the most exciting things about OCZ Storage Solutions is that we have been infused with even greater resources to develop next generation products. Toshiba acquired all of the company's R&D and engineering assets and not only kept them completely intact, but enabled these teams to refocus their efforts on developing our own next generation in-house controller, firmware, and enterprise software. These teams will continue to create products that are specifically designed for our target audience. As part of Toshiba we also have earlier and greater access to next generation NAND which allows OCZ optimize our next generation controllers and firmware to take advantage of the complete range of features, and opens the door to further enhance performance and endurance in future client and enterprise drives. This early access can also potentially accelerate the design cycle making it possible to release innovative products with even better time to market.Q: What are the fastest growing SSD interfaces in the enterprise segment? Is PCIe gaining traction?A: SATA continues to be the lion's share of the market but we have seen a continued ramp on PCIe SSDs both in the workstation and enterprise markets. With our current controller technology we are already at the point where we are saturating the SATA III bus so PCIe is a natural transition for customers looking for more bandwidth. We are already well along the design of our next generation controllers that are both native SATA and PCIe and I think that in the future we will see many PCIe SSDs in form factors beyond edge cards as customers seek the ideal combination of performance, density, reliability and ease of deployment.Q: Where does Taiwan fit into OCZ's operations?A: Taiwan has always been our APAC operations headquarters and continues to be home for our sales and marketing functions in the region. Our manufacturing operation in Taiwan has been absorbed by a Toshiba manufacturing partner and will continue to produce our drives. This organization has a wealth of expertise in the manufacture of storage products for Toshiba and is infusing additional resources into the operation. As we ramp both our client and enterprise businesses there is a major push to continually improve quality throughout the organization and our local team in Taiwan continues to play a key role in this regard.Q: Can you tell us more about your enterprise SSD strategy?A: The enterprise market continues to be a key growth area for us and where we are investing a lot of our resources on the R&D side. We have been refining our solution offering to build products that our customers are specifically asking for, in some cases this includes adding new enterprise features, something that we are able to do because we have our own controllers and firmware. We are also continuing to push are total solutions approach, like our newest ZD-XL SQL Accelerator 1.5 which is a tightly integrated hardware/software plug-and-play acceleration solution optimized for Microsoft SQL Server applications. This solution leverages OCZ's industry-proven PCIe SSD hardware and application-tuned software to deliver low latency flash that resolves potential SQL Server bottleneck issues enabling the flash to be deployed as a local flash volume, a flash cache for HDD volumes, or as a combination of both. The solution includes a combination of fast flash performance, a unique cache mechanism that makes advanced and statistically-optimized decisions on what data to cache, and a dynamic cache warm-up scheduler that enables workloads to be placed on flash cache in advance of demanding and critical jobs. Solutions like this make it easier to deploy and leverage the benefits of SSD technology and we are continuing to make investments in this arena, making it easier for enterprise customers to address their enterprise storage challenges no matter what the application may be.Q: Can you share your views about the outlook for SSD? What is your business outlook for 2014? Which are the most exciting challenges ahead of OCZ short-term, mid-term as well as long-term?A: While there is no doubt there will continue to be consolidation in the SSD market I expect that the NAND Fabs will continue to become the key players in this space. I believe we will continue to see a surge in adoption in both the PC and Data Center space with the most growth in the mainstream PC segment as drives only become more affordable. OCZ is back with a renewed focus and our most exciting short term challenges are mostly behind us as we have transitioned our portfolio to Toshiba NAND, and we were able to retain almost our entire team through the transition to let us hit the ground running. Mid-term and long term our challenges are on building back our business with all of our valued customers and partners across all regions, as well as accelerating our product development to leverage cutting edge TLC and 3D NAND technologies. OCZ has always pushed the performance envelope and we are committed to continue to support both the client and enterprise markets with quality SSD products. This is both a very exciting time for the maturing SSD market as well as our own organization, and with Toshiba's support we now have even more resources in which to bring to market innovative solutions that address our customer's requirements head on.OCZ Storage Solutions launched a new PCIe SSD RevoDrive 350Photo: Company

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