In a showcase of Taiwan's burgeoning AI ecosystem, the 2024 AI Expo held at the Expo Dome in Taipei Expo Park featured a lineup of 56 local AI startups, each offering diverse and innovative AI solutions tailored to meet the evolving needs of businesses worldwide.
At the AI Expo Taiwan 2024, running from April 24–26 at the Taipei Expo Park, major chip companies offer their take on potential developments in cloud and edge AI technologies, with the development and challenges in edge computing taking a particular focus.
Microsoft touted as the world's largest AI service provider, has reportedly invited several leading figures in the South Korean tech industry to attend a high-level meeting.
Synaptics Incorporated has unveiled its Synaptics Astra platform, featuring the SL series embedded AI native IoT processor and the Astra Machina Foundation series development kit.
Affected by the overall global economic situation in 2023, Taiwanese industrial PC (IPC) manufacturers saw high inventory levels among their downstream customers with DIGITIMES Research estimating that the total revenue of Taiwanese IPC manufacturers reached NT$283.66 billion (US$8.66 billion) for annual decrease of 1.3% in 2023, a relatively weak performance, according to DIGITIMES Research's latest AIoT report covering Taiwanese IPC makers' performance in recent years.
A recent report from the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) has emerged, indicating Baidu is poised to provide AI capabilities for Apple's next-generation iPhone 16.
In the past, it was the chip that created the user's needs, but when hardware has little room to expand for running Artificial Intelligence (AI) models while the difference between each generation of chips gets smaller and smaller, it's the Operating System (OS) and applications that decide the winner in the AI PC, AI smartphone and AIoT era, said DIGITIMES Research analyst and project manager Joyce Chen.
As channel and client inventory adjustments gradually come to an end, the microcontroller (MCU) industry expects inventory to return to a healthy level in the second quarter of 2024, while market prices continue to reflect cost structures. Industry players believe that the subsequent replenishment effect depends on the recovery of the end-consumer market. With the upcoming Chinese 618 shopping festival, there is hope for a resurgence in demand, making the second quarter a crucial period for industry recovery.
According to the IDC Worldwide Quarterly Enterprise Infrastructure Tracker, buyer and cloud deployment, spending on compute and storage infrastructure products for cloud deployments, including dedicated and shared IT environments, increased 18.5% year-on-year in the fourth quarter of 2023 to US$31.8 billion.
Japan's spending on edge computing is expected to reach US$12 billion (JPY1.6 trillion) in 2024, an increase of 12.3% over 2023, according to the IDC Worldwide Edge Spending Guide.
From industrial 4.0 to IoT, industrial PC (IPC) manufacturers have played a crucial role in the development process of various industrial issues. The growth in related markets has brought IPC manufacturers certain contributions. Recently, trends like net-zero carbon emissions and edge computing have become the new favorites of the market, which has created new market development opportunities for IPC manufacturers.
The Bank of America Research Department said that current demand for GenAI primarily stems from cloud infrastructure deployment, with market momentum driven by chip manufacturers, server providers, and Cloud Service Providers (CSPs).
The recent Global AI Index by UK-based The Tortoise Media underscores Taiwan's lagging research strength and commercialization index in AI compared to its fellow Asian Tigers.
