Over the course of the past two years, HWTrek hosted 80 hardware creators and accelerators to visit Taiwan, Beijing, and Shenzhen on Asia Innovation Tour 2016 (April), Asia Innovation Tour 2015 (August), and also on the first tour in April 2014. We’re organizing the next tour in November 2016 to Shenzhen, Osaka, and Kyoto. You can register on the HWTrek platform [...]
Hexiwear is a development platform for IoT and wearable devices. It is designed to help hardware creators and entrepreneurs with rapid prototyping so that they can efficiently produce innovative IoT products that keep us connected and transform the ways in which we live. In the rapidly developing world of IoT and connected devices, the market demands faster [...]
We were excited to meet the wonderful hardware company participants—from startups and established small and medium-sized businesses (SMB)—that joined us on Asia Innovation Tour 2016 in Shenzhen and Beijing this past April, our third tour, and to learn more about the cool smart, connected devices that they are creating. During the tour we visited factories, [...]
Over the course of the past two years, HWTrek hosted 80 hardware creators and accelerators to visit Taiwan, Beijing, and Shenzhen on Asia Innovation Tour 2016 (April), Asia Innovation Tour 2015 (August), and also on the first tour in April 2014. We’re organizing the next tour in November 2016 to Shenzhen, Osaka, and Kyoto. You can register on the HWTrek platform [...]
We're excited to be back in Seattle where Jack Shen, Director of Project Development at HWTrek, will be delivering a talk for the Seattle Hardware Startups Meetup about hardware manufacturing, getting quotes, product development, and more. As a program manager, Jack can help hardware creators to understand and master the challenges of the Design For [...]
Tencent launched, in April 2014, Tencent Operating System, an Android-based open hardware operating system for smart, connected devices. Three months later, Tencent's WeChat undertook work on an IoT open hardware platform in July 2014. As of a year ago, more than 2,400 hardware manufacturers, including both startups and established companies, had signed up for the [...]
In the evolution of wearable device chipsets, there are generally three types: Mobile chipsets: early on existing mobile chipsets were used to develop products. For example, Samsung Galaxy Gear used Exynos 4212, Google Glass used OPAP 4430. The advantage is an effective use of an existing platform with rich features. Microcontroller (MCU) based products: such [...]
The main feature of the IC Industry is that winners can take all the benefits and credit. For instance, an industry giant like Intel profits may rise up to 60% at its peak. Yet, what is the actual cost of those CPUs, accordingly, over hundreds or even thousands of units? The Hardware Cost Structure of [...]
Microsoft acquires LinkedIn Besides the implications for CRM and a single identity for workers best covered by Ben Thompson and James Allworth (see links below); there are also important ways in which this acquisition will also be valuable for ERP (enterprise resource planning) in Microsoft Dynamics, and inter-/intra-corporate collaboration, whether via Yammer or other applications. This [...]
What is Industry 4.0 The term Industry 4.0 was first coined in 2011. The four key components of Industry 4.0 are Cyber-Physical Systems, Internet of Things (IoT), Internet of Services (IoS), and Smart Factory. The integration of computational and physical processes, that is enabled by embedded systems monitoring and controlling the real processes interacting with [...]