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Dear Reader,
This 4th preview about Taiwan at CeBIT 2004 deals with Hall
17, where the Taiwan Pavilion hosts a small, but fine club
of sophisticated makers of Industrial PCs, with Data Capture
as a close second topic.
It took time since the early days of Taiwan's computer industry
before a handful of PC firms broke away from the treadmill
routine of ODM/OEM/OBM manufacturing, developing industrial
workstations and mental capabilities to analyze customers'
specific application problems and supply them with custom-tailored
solutions, including hardware, software and consulting. Even
today, it is still an exclusive club, and you will see its
finest members at CeBIT 2004.
Advantech, an oldtimer in Hannover and Taiwan's largest IPC
manufacturer, projects consolidated revenues of 11.669 billion
Taiwan Dollars for 2004, and if achieved, will surpass all
competition and become the world's largest IPC maker! As customer
demands from the US, Europe and Japan shift more and more
from standard models to customized equipment, Advantech, together
with ICP, Adlink and Boser, plan to enlarge their R&D
manpower this year. When you look for IPCs at CeBIT, please
also drop by at other major exhibitors at the Taiwan Pavilion,
such as AAEON and Heisei.
Not in Hall 17 but to be mentioned at this occasion are "ruggedized"
notebook computers available from at least one Taiwan maker,
featuring heavy duty shock-proof and water resistant casings
to withstand severe blows in military and industrial ambiance
including open air, though standard notebook computers already
tolerate quite some manhandling in factories and in the field.
Also on the Taiwan Pavilion in Hall 17, see "Data Capture",
those special data acquisition devices for sensing and digitizing
all kinds of impressions, from bar codes to finger prints
etc. Look for our leading exhibitors Champtek, Fametek, Giga-TMS,
Chung Hsin and Zebex.
And now for something completely different:
Every year after the traditional CeBIT preview press conference,
when I sift through the newspaper commentaries of my German
press colleagues setting forth on our attendance statistics,
there always seem to be some jokers who believe that they
are smarter than us. And when I say "us", I mean
us die-hardened trade fair veterans who gained their serenity
and seniority in this business by weathering fifty years of
changing economic prosperities, technology trends, trade practices
and information gathering habits, while at the same time most
of these desk-bound novelists were still playing in rompers
in the sand-box.
Having said that, now let's get the record straight: Trade
fair visitors, in numbers and qualification alike, must
necessarily change along with changing developments. During
the gas-light area before 1900, the London WORLD EXPO awed
hundreds of thousands who wanted to see with their own eyes
how one simple flick of a switch would illuminate a whole
city with electric light. Much alike, CeBIT also had its "gas-light"
area not long ago, when hundreds of thousands just came to
bowle over at such unbelievable new technologies as cell phones,
Multimedia and the Internet - - by today already household
items which inconsiderate consumers slap into their hypermarket
shopping carts, together with groceries.
Those masses of private users, who marvel at every new piece
of hardware just because of its mere existence and who stay
away if there are no new gadgets and knick-knacks each year,
are indeed influencing attendance statistics, but by numbers
only, not by substance. They are retail customers and welcome,
as long as they behave. But they alone would not justify the
existence of a world event like CeBIT, where the mainstay
are Business-to Business contacts among insiders - - those
untangible "close encounters of the 4th kind" that
combine the display of hardware, transfers of know-how and
exchange of experiences and knowledge among professionals.
Here, CeBIT is and will be unbeatable and far ahead of all
competition with its ancillary events, in number as well as
in quality. The 2004 program is still shaping up and will
not be readily available on the net before one month from
now, but the numbers will be as impressive than they were
in 2003, where CeBIT featured no less than
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and all of that during just one week.
As German poet Friedrich von Schiller said in his drama Demetrius
: " Du sollst die Stimmen waegen und nicht zaehlen !"
("Thou shalt weigh the numbers, but aspire not to count
them !") Or for simpler minds, it's like boiling down
a concentrate of chicken broth: A lot of steam may blast off,
but what remains is the substance that you came for in the
first place!
So, let's be part of the substance and meet at CeBIT!
And here, some previews from our exhibitors:
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AAEON introduces a revolutionary all-in-one
LCD PC-Onyx 158S. It offers truly unique system
flexibility. The Onyx 158S consists of a computer
and a flat-panel monitor. Supporting both socket
370 IntelR PentiumR III or CeleronR processor
up to 1GHz with 133MHz FSB, it also provides a
various ports for connecting peripheral devices,
such as dual USBs, expandable memory support and
one free expansion slot to meet the demand for
a powerful LCD PC. ......more
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The professional designer and manufacturer of
embedded computers and application systems, Protech
Systems unveils the new POS system: PS-8800, a
perfect solution for retail, hospitality and fast
food, hotel, industrial and other interactive
applications. PS-8800 integrates VIA Eden Low
Power CPU at speed of 400 / 733MHz. The fanless
VIA Eden? processor is a low power, high performance,
and highly integrated x86 platform that provides
the most flexible, compatible, and cost-effective
solution.....more
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A hand-held barcode reader designed and manufactured
by Champtek has won the "Good Design Product"
award from China External Trade Development Council
(CETRA). This grants Champtek the privilege to
use "GD" mark on the barcode reader.
The long range CCD/Laser barcode scanner is differentiating
itself from the conventionally dull design of
other manufacturers. The design is meant to make
the product an ergonomic device which is also
enjoyable to use....more
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During Computex2003 Taipei,, LANNER got hundreds
of inquiries and quotation requests for their
Pentium III level industrial mainboards. Being
different from a PC company which offers suitable
Computing solutions, Customer never worry about
the CPU supply status, ISA interface requirement
and what kind of memory what should I Choice?.
LANNER glorifies the use of mainboards for the
non-PC industry. ....more
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ADLINK Technology Inc., the leading manufacturer
of PC-based industrial computers for measurement,
automation, and communication, announces cPCI-6860,
the world's first dual Low Voltage Intel®
Xeon™processor-based 6U CompactPCI single-board
computer. The cPCI-6860 supports state-of-the-art
Intel Xeon processors up to 2.4 GHz, as well as
Low Voltage Intel® Xeon™ processor for
power sensitive applicatio.....more
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GP90A is a 125 KHz proximity reader with reading
distance up to 90 cm. Same as our GP products,
GP90A has four user-selectable interfaces - RS-232,
RS-485, ABA TK2 and Wiegand. High-precision auto
tuning compensates for environmental changes.
It makes our GP90A work well even with metal interference.
Moreover, the firmware download mode allows for
firmware upgrade in the field. .....more
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