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Top executives of Taiwan's IT heavyweights to attend CES 2014

2013/12/23 | By Ken Liu

Top executives of Taiwan's information-technology heavyweights will attend CES 2014, to be staged Jan. 7-10 in Las Vegas, U.S. as the world's No.1 consumer electronics show.

While Chairman Terry Guo of the Hon Hai Group and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Jason Cheng of Pegatron Corp., both contract electronics manufacturers, will visit the show, Johnny Shih, chairman of brand PC maker Asustek Computer Inc., will give a keynote speech there. Also, Vice Chairman C.C. Leung of Quanta Computer Inc. will  reportedly visit customers at the show.

Shih and his chief executive officer, Jerry Shen, will hold a pre-show press conference outside the venue to introduce the company's strategic deployment for the company's ASUS Transformer Book Trio, a combination of tablet PC, laptop, and desktop.

The company will exhibit its Memo Phone series of pure smart phones for upscale, midscale, and downscale markets. Two years ago, the company announced its Padfone mini, the industry's first hybrid  tablet-smartphone. Also, the company is expected to debut its first cloud netbook named Chromebook and its first 8-inch Win8 tablet.

CES 2014 will feature wearable technology, cloud computing technology, autonomous vehicle technology, and 3D printing technology.

Although Apple iWatch and Google Glass are still unavailable, some exhibitors are expected to demonstrate wearable computing devices such as computing watches, computing wrist laces, and computing glasses. Hon Hai, Inventec Corp. and Wistron Corp. are expected to compete for wearable device contracts at the show.

Cloud computing devices developed around Google Chrome OS are expected at the event. LG announced that it will roll out Chrome OS desktops at the show.

Tesla and Google are expected to demonstrate autonomous vehicle technologies. Delta Electronics Inc. and Simplo Technology Co., Ltd. from Taiwan will promote autonomous vehicle batteries.

Taiwan's 3D printer manufacturers including the New Kinpo Group, the Aurora Group, and GrandTech C.G. Systems Inc. will be exhibiting  at the show.

Major keynote speakers include the newly appointed Intel Corp. CEO Brian Krzanich, Sony Corp. CEO Kazou Hirai, Cisco Systems, Inc. CEO John Chambers, Yahoo Inc. CEO Marissa Mayer, Twitter CEO Dick Costolo.

The 2014 event draws 3,200 plus exhibitors worldwide, including 172 from Taiwan, hence being a top-four exhibitor source along with China, Japan, and South Korea. (KL)