More than 50 Taiwanese tech firms are expected to participate in the Mobile World Congress (MWC) trade show in Barcelona, Spain, later this month, showcasing their latest technologies and products with the hope of securing orders from Western countries.
Those companies include Acer Inc (宏碁), Askey Computer Corp (亞旭), ASRock Inc (華擎), Compal Electronics Inc (仁寶), Gigabyte Technology Co (技嘉), HTC Corp (宏達電), Lite-On Technology Corp (光寶), Quanta Computer Inc (廣達) and Wiwynn Corp (緯穎), the organizer GSMA said.
Lite-On, for instance, plans to demonstrate its cutting-edge and field-proven private 5G network solutions including small cells and smart RIC systems at MWC this year, while Wiwynn is to unveil its latest cloud-based infrastructure solutions for data centers and artificial intelligence-accelerated edge computing servers, the companies said in separate statements.
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The Industrial Development Administration will also partner with several local companies and the government-funded Industrial Technology Research Institute (工研院) to showcase integrated solutions from network equipment to system software at a Taiwan Pavilion, the Ministry of Economic Affairs said.
At the national pavilion, companies including Adlink Technology Inc (凌華), Aethertek Technology Co (倚強), Alpha Networks Inc (明泰), Chunghwa Telecom Co (中華電信), D-Link Corp (友訊), Edgecore Networks Corp (鈺登), Jorjin Technologies Inc (佐臻), Moxa Inc (四零四) and Tailyn Technologies Inc (台林) are to demonstrate Open RAN innovations that fulfill deployment needs at different scales in this rapidly evolving telecom landscape.
The trade show scheduled from Feb. 26 to Feb. 29 is considered the biggest annual gathering of the telecom industry, where mobile phone manufacturers, software vendors, telecoms, wireless communications firms and related experts from all over the world seek to strike partnerships and vie for orders.
Last year, MWC attracted 2,400 exhibitors and companies as well as nearly 90,000 industry participants, experts, regulators and media from more than 200 countries, GSMA said.
Under the theme of “Future First,” this year’s event aims to address six areas of urgency: “5G and Beyond, Connecting Everything, Humanizing AI, Manufacturing Digital Transformation, Game Changers and Our Digital DNA,” GSMA said, expecting the number of participants to reach a new high this year.
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