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Six ICT Trends Seen at COMPUTEX 2016
At COMPUTEX,
the leading global ICT show with a complete supply chain, six trends
were seen this year that reflected the global information and
communications technology (ICT) industry's emerging trends. Also
highlighted was Taiwan's strategic regional location in Asia (within
one-to-four hours) of major Asian cities and the advantages for global
companies doing regional business from Taiwan. The trends are the
Internet of Things (IoT), virtual and augmented reality, gaming hardware
advances, Industry 4.0, startup innovation and direct access to Asian
markets.
"Over 36 years, COMPUTEX has expanded and evolved with the ICT industry,
and shifted its position to reflect the trends that we, our advisors,
analysts, and other thought leaders are seeing," said TAITRA Executive
Vice President Walter Yeh. "This year, COMPUTEX's positioning was
'building partnerships in Internet computing ecosystems,' and its four
main themes were IoT applications, innovative startups, business
solutions, and gaming. The positioning and the themes reflect global ICT
trends and were prominent at COMPUTEX this year."
The following trends observed at COMPUTEX reflected those of the ICT
industry worldwide:
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Internet of Things (IoT): Smart cars, home appliances,
wearables, and factory machines that can gather data, make decisions,
collaborate, provide data for analysis, sense and inform if something
is amiss or needs fixing or replacing were prominent at COMPUTEX, at
its new SmarTEX exhibit dedicated to IoT. Gartner (News - Alert), Inc. says IoT
should be a $2.9 billion market this year as 5.5 million devices are
connected every day, leading to 6.4 billion "things" being connected
by year's end. The IoT was one of four main themes at COMPUTEX.
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Virtual reality and augmented reality: Microsoft (News - Alert) invited
hardware partners to create virtual and mixed (augmented) reality
devices with Windows Holographic, the platform that powers Microsoft
HoloLens, the headset that lets users view and interact with 3D
images. Exhibitors such as AMD, Cooler Master, HTC (News - Alert), MSI, and Zotac
displayed products such as graphics processing units (GPUs), full-body
VR simulations, and VR backpacks. IDC research indicates that
shipments of virtual reality devices worldwide are expected to
increase by up to 24 times in 2016.
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Gaming hardware advances: More than 30 leading manufacturers of
gaming hardware displayed their latest products, such as PCs, laptops,
monitors, motherboards, cooling systems, and cases. Also, COMPUTEX was
one of seven locations worldwide for the first time at HWBOT's World
Series 2016 overclocking competition. Gaming, eSports and mobile
research firm Newzoo forecasts that the worldwide gaming market will
grow from $91.5 billion USD in 2015 o $113.3 billion by 2018 and the
global eSports market from $325 million USD in 2015 to $1.1 billion by
2019. The market value of gaming currently surpasses that of films and
music combined. In response to this explosive worldwide growth, TAITRA
designated gaming as one of the show's four main themes.
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Industry 4.0: Smart robots and other IoT machines that can self
provision, discover other devices, collaborate and share data were on
display from companies such as ABB Robotics, which participated in
COMPUTEX for the first time, and discussed in keynotes such as
presented by Steven Wyatt, group vice president of ABB Robotics and
Erdal Elver, president & CEO of Siemens Ltd. Taiwan. "The switch from
high volume, low mix manufacturing to low volume, high mix is the 'new
normal' in consumer electronics," said Steven Wyatt. "Manufacturers
need agile and flexible automation systems that can keep up with
increasingly diverse consumers and shorter and shorter product cycles.
This takes people, robots and factories all working effectively
together across an integrated ecosystem that ABB calls the Internet of
Things, Services and People."
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Startup innovation: Investment in tech startups, not just in
funding, but also in mentorship, facilities, and networking
relationships, has increased through the rise of startup accelerators.
The COMPUTEX startup exhibit, InnoVEX, surpassed expectations,
attracting 217 exhibiting startups from 22 countries for matchmaking
with international VCs, angel investors, potential partners, and
future customers in a single venue. The startup pitch competition had
multiple winners, including a Bay Area and Taiwan-based company
MoBagel, a real-time cloud analytics platform working with IoT
companies. Innovative startups was one of the four main themes of
COMPUTEX.
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Direct access to Asian markets: Taiwan has intellectual
property protection and for many years the island, with an experienced
tech talent pool, has been the world's leader in all aspects of ICT
manufacturing and rapid prototyping, which speeds time to market.
Taiwan's proximity to mainland China, Japan, Korea, and Southeast Asia
also brings global supply chain and distribution opportunities. At the
opening ceremony of COMPUTEX, Taiwan's President Tsai Ing-wen remarked
on the growth of IoT and Taiwan's integration of hardware and software
along with low volume high variety manufacturing capabilities.
President Tsai also said that her government will develop an "Asia
Silicon Valley" initiative to stimulate IoT growth and continue
building a smart, digital country.
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Note to Editors: The official name of our event is "COMPUTEX
TAIPEI." We also accept "COMPUTEX."
About COMPUTEX TAIPEI (known as COMPUTEX):
Established in 1981, COMPUTEX TAIPEI is the leading global ICT show with
a complete supply chain. Co-organized by the Taiwan External Trade
Development Council (TAITRA) and the Taipei Computer Association (TCA),
COMPUTEX, in the heart of Taiwan's ICT cluster, covers the whole
spectrum of ICT from upstream components-manufacturing all the way to
system assembly and IoT applications. With over a third of the world's
computing devices made by Taiwanese companies, Taiwan is a strategic
destination for buyers looking for partners in Internet computing
ecosystems. Follow COMPUTEX TAIPEI on its website at www.computextaipei.com.tw
and on Twitter (News - Alert) @computex_taipei using the hashtag #COMPUTEX.
About TAITRA:
TAITRA, the Taiwan External Trade and Development Council, organized 36
exhibitions in 2015. A total of 11,475 international and local
exhibitors participated, occupying 32,982 booth spaces and visited by
82,939 international visitors.
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