The rapid developments of IoT (Internet of Things) have brought new opportunities for silicon vendors. As a leading provider of mobile and TV chipsets, MediaTek has been putting lots of efforts in deploying IoT market over the past years, aiming to leverage its advantages in smartphone market to make inroads into the emerging applications."We have made significant progresses with several customers launching end products to the market," JC Hsu, corporate vice president and general manager of IoT Business Development at MediaTek, said. "We will keep building comprehensive IoT solutions and drive the industry moving forwards as a technology enabler."Bring Mobile Advantages into Full PlayHsu explained that IoT is a natural evolution from mobile Internet technology, along with the availability of telecommunication infrastructure. For a wide range of consumer IoT devices, low-power, connectivity, and multimedia are the key features, and these are the areas that MediaTek excels at."In terms of power consumption, IoT devices require more compact area but perhaps only one fifth of power budget. Similarly, connectivity includes cellular, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and other standard, thus we need to consider higher integration and interference issues in a smaller area. All these will be the critical factors for chip vendors to stand out from the competitive market.""In addition, quality multimedia and camera functions are also essential. With our strengths in the TV, DVD, and mobile phone market, we are fully confident that we will be able to embrace new opportunities."However, there are still plenty of challenges to be solved in the market. "IoT market is characterized by full diversity, small volume, multiple standards, security, and service-oriented vertical applications. Because of different functionality, specifications, and services, the turnkey solutions that used to be successful in mobile phone market can no longer fit. It challenges not only device makers' design and manufacturing ability, but also chip vendors' to provide total solutions."Providing Solutions to Lower Design BarriersIn order to embrace market trends, according to Hsu, MediaTek is the members of GSMA, 3GPP, OIC (Open Interconnect Consortium), working with leading companies to participate in standardization process. Moreover, MediaTek's products are designed to support JD Cloud, Aliyun, OIC, and Apple Home Kit standards, as well as software and hardware development kits, in a bid to meet various product requirements.Strategically, MediaTek will mainly focus on consumer market, where the company already has solid customer bases, and then expand to other applications, including industrial and automobile.There are already some customers adopting MediaTek's MT2502 and MT2601 to develop a wide range of wearables, such as smartwatches, fitness bands, kid shoes, and bike computers. In addition, early this year, the company announced MT2511, its first bio-sensing analog front-end chip designed for health and fitness devices, to enable bio signal acquisition through electrocardiography (ECG) and photoplethysmography (PPG) simultaneously. Another new product is MT7697, which delivers low energy Bluetooth and dual-band Wi-Fi for smart home and home automation products.On the other hand, MediaTek endeavors to provide comprehensive hardware and software solutions and easy-to-use development platforms to help customer lower entry barrier and shorten time to market. At the same time, the company also actively builds an ecosystem, forming partnership with companies across different industries.For example, by establishing MediaTek Labs, MediaTek tries to help developers and start-ups to quickly move from concept designs to mass production. With the market featured with small-volume but large-variety, it is difficult for developers and start-ups, which have very limited resources, to find manufacturing partners. "We hope to play a role between them and to fulfill both of their demands, so that these companies will be able to shorten time to market and get success."Furthermore, MediaTek has actively sponsored several innovation competitions and cultivation programs in Taiwan and China to explore new innovative products and foster talents."Among them, Tinitell, a Sweden-based start-up, adopted our solutions to develop a wearable mobile phone for kids. By integrating 2G and GPS functions, the product can not only help parents track the locations of kids, but also talk to them directly. It was us that help Tinitell find a suitable manufacturer in China. This is a perfect example of how MediaTek Labs supports star-ups to launch products on market, because we believe that our success relies on customers' success", Hsu saidInnovation + Cross Cooperation to Shape New LandscapeAs for industrial applications, Chunghwa Precision Test Technology Company (CHPT), a subsidiary of Chunghwa Telecom, adopted MediaTek's solution to develop data acquisition equipment, heading to embrace the Industry 4.0 trend. Also, the smart remote control devices developed by China's BroadLink can be used to control home appliances through mobile apps, the first step to realize the smart home vision, and the products has been moved into mass production this year. These are some of the successful stories that MediaTek has achieved to diversify its customer base in IoT market recently.In terms of automobile applications, according to Hsu, by combining cellular and GPS technologies, various connected car applications, such as fleet management and asset tracking, are increasingly popular, and this is the area that MediaTek can play an important role.He emphasized that the success of IoT relied on the combination of business models, hardware devices, and applications. Because devices are of no fixed functions, it is very important for device makers to understand the requirements of end applications and to seek for cross-industry cooperation opportunities. For example, in-car OBD (on-board diagnosis) devices can be used to collect related driving information for the analysis of drivers' behavior. The device can have more add-on values if they are provided to insurers, so that they can design insurance policies with more flexibility based on customers' driving patterns. This is an example to show why the design concept of IoT devices can not only be purely hardware, because their true value lies in effective business models, and needs to leverage through cross-cooperation.Many of MediaTek's design-win cases in wearables and smart home markets are from China. Hsu said, "With rich resources and a great deal of companies, it is true that they are moving quickly to grab the business opportunities. For Taiwan, I think the industry should make more efforts to enhance its speed and flexibility to make inroads into IoT. In order to achieve more concrete results, we need to keep driving innovation and cross-industry cooperation. We find that many of Taiwanese companies begin to be active in the market. It's a great sign. Under the mega IoT trend, we do hope to team up with more companies to reshape the future landscape."

AVEXIR Technologies Corp., the world's memory brand in exclusive patented breathing LED & plasma tube technology products, announced new product series at 2016 Computex Taipei, which will bring lighting frenzy again.AVEXIR had officially expanded product line to SSD and launched the world first LED SSD: S100 series SSD last year. Henceforth customers are looking forward to what will come out after. Certainly, Avexir never stops moving forward and keeps developing and researching. At 2016 Computex Taipei, AVEIXR will bring you more new products and new product concepts.Firstly, AVEXIR is excited to introduce you to a new SSD, M100 series SSD. The target audience of M100 series SSD is totally different from those of S100 series SSD. It aims to business people and consumers who need portable memory disks. M100 series SSD is a dual interface SSD, with SATA III and the newest USB 3.1/ TYPE-C support. By means of USB 3.1 high-efficient transmission, external portable hard drive is no longer subject to transmission interface influence. Also, it can 100% deliver SATA III superior read/write performance, the read speed up to 540MB/s, and the write speed reaches up to 450MB/s. It will be available in 120GB /240GB/ 480GB capacities. As to product appearance design, it is only 7mm thickness and with robust metal material housing, also adding leather texture on the top to enhance the quality. In addition, it has RGB LED lighting effect, which stands out the moment you take it out from the suit pocket.Secondly, it's Raiden PCIe M.2 SSD series. AVEXIR has been modifying, polishing and even redesigning it after its conceptual model was displayed at COMPUTEX Taipei last year. From PCB, product martial to appearance design, AVEXIR takes user-experience, and other design concepts into account and to make sure mass production. Raiden PCIe M.2 SSD supports M.2 AHCI SSD with high-speed PCI-Express interface, and shares bandwidth with PCIe Gen 3 x4, theoretically speeds of transmission up to 2000MB/s. Exchangeable M.2 design enables users randomly choose the speed and capacity they want. Also, it supports 128GB-1TB M.2 SSD with AHCI interface, which allows some old motherboard chips set can have free-driver to enjoy high-speed SSD performance. Moreover, Raiden PCIe M.2 SSD is with AVEXIR exclusive patented technology of plasma tubes, the lighting effect will be definitely the focus of your PC.Last but not the least; it is the new member of Raiden Family: Green Tesla, the most anticipating product. AVEXIR is proud to launch Raiden series products, including Raiden series and Red Tesla, which have become the most popular and best-selling of AVEXIR memory products. However, blue and red plasma tube lighting effect cannot meet everyone's needs. Therefore, AVEXIR has secretly showcased green plasma tube lighting effect in CaseMod builds around the world and it triggers people's curiosity of what Green Tesla is. AVEXIR will officially showcase Green Tesla at 2016 Computex exhibition. Comparing with original Raiden series with enthusiastic character, Green Tesla shows the sense of mystery. Due to the trend of switch to DDR4, Green Tesla will only release DDR4 version and start with 2666MHZ dual channel 16GB capacity. AVEXIR believes that it can meet users' needs at performance, capacity and visual effect.Apart from our latest and innovative products, AVEXIR is going to held lots of interesting activities and special events this year. Also, we have ten unique & special CASEMODs here at AVEXIR booth for visitors closely experiencing those awesome works. Come to Avexir booth for more info. Let's meet AVEXIR at 2015 COMPUTEX TAIPEI from 5/31 to 6/4. (Booth No. I0818) For more information, visit AVEXIR official website page http://www.avexir.com.twPhoto: AVEXIR announces M100 series SSD, Raiden PCIe M.2 SSD and Green Tesla

Audio and imaging innovation leader Conexant Systems, Inc. is on hand this week at Computex 2016 to highlight their AudioSmart 3.0 product line. These highly-efficient, powerful silicon and software solutions redefine the audio experience for a range of consumer electronics - including tablets and PCs. Today, Conexant is showcasing the world's first PC to receive Microsoft Skype for Business certification as a Group Speakerphone, along with their high-performance, four-microphone far-field voice input pre-processing technology and context-aware control automation software.Conexant has partnered with a top computer maker to create the world's first PC certified by Microsoft as a Skype for Business Group Speakerphone. This landmark achievement takes collaboration to the next level by supporting and extending the Microsoft Skype for Business Group Speakerphone experience within a single, fully-integrated productivity platform. The system features both hardware and software from Conexant, culminating in a highly portable notebook computer that also completely replaces a desk-based speakerphone by enabling loud, clear telephone calls directly from the PC itself.The level of performance achieved by this platform addresses the fact that Skype audio problems often hinder communication and put a damper on productivity. Catching up with your family across the country or having a VoIP roundtable discussion with your colleagues on the other side of the world can indeed be challenging when portions of the conversation often can't be heard or understood. Similar challenges arise when attempting to communicate with intelligent personal assistants. Isn't it frustrating when Microsoft Cortana can't understand you or produce the results you need?With Conexant AudioSmart 3.0 technology and design services, however, things simply work better. Conexant's voice processing algorithms allow users to speak naturally and be heard - as well as better hear what others are saying. With advanced de-reverb, superior noise reduction (on both sides of the conversation), integrated smart amplifier technology, and excellent Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) hit rates, AudioSmart 3.0 makes VoIP communication more natural, and hands-free control less of a burden - even in far-field conditions.Conexant has also created a suite of technologies that intelligently sense context, leveraging information about how a device is being used to automatically optimize the end-user experience. The ability to discern what a device is being used to do under particular conditions allows Conexant technology to intelligently adapt and ensure the audio experience is just right. For example, audio settings normally found buried deep in a control panel application are automatically optimized, with no user input required. Without having to know where that control panel is found - much less how to adjust all the settings found there - users of Conexant technology receive personalized audio processing. The result is louder, more intelligible playback for all use-cases, and more accurate responses from Cortana under the most challenging conditions."We've designed our AudioSmart solutions to give people control of the technologies they interact with the most - using only their voice," said Saleel Awsare, Conexant president. "Adding environmental cues and contextual awareness into our technology mix makes for an even better experience. We're giving collaboration a whole new meaning and changing the way people interact with their computers and intelligent personal assistants."Computex attendees are encouraged to stop by Conexant's suite #1002-10F at the Grand Hyatt Taipei during the show to view a demo and see Conexant's AudioSmart 3.0 solutions 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

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.