LAS VEGAS - Representatives from ZhongGuanCun, also known as the Chinese Silicon Valley, kicked off the second day of CES 2010 with an early morning showcase of companies making waves in the region.
This is the first time a high-tech Chinese zone has presented at the annual electronics show. The Beijing-based area includes some 20,000 different companies, including high profile Chinese organizations like Lenovo, as well as international companies such as Microsoft, IBM, and Cisco.
The companies showcased at the event are not necessarily the largest, "but they're definitely the best," said Frank Tan, ZhongGuanCun founder.
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Featured companies included e-book reader manufacturer Hanvon, mobile health device manufacturer IVT Corporation, semiconductor designer Vimicro, convergence association IGRS, and software designer Patentics.
Vimicro founder and CTO, Dr. Dave Yang, led off, discussing the company's new high-fidelity image processing technology. "Traditional methods are technology-based," Yang explained. Vimicro's technology, on the other hand, is scene-based, preserving the original fidelity of the images by capturing them at 16bpp.
IVT's founder and CEO, Dr. Qiang Gao, outlined his Bluetooth-based healthcare devices. The company produces blood pressure meters, calorie meters, blood sugar meters and more, serving some 100 million users, worldwide. Information collected by the devices can be accessed online via PC or mobile device by patients, doctors, and family members. "Our technology could potentially save millions of lives," explained Gao.
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Liu Yingjian, the chairman of Hanvon Technology, gave a brief overview of his company's e-book reader line, telling the audience that he hoped Hanvon would become the number one e-book reader in the world. Hanvon offers eight different models, sized 5-9 inches. The devices are unique from similar products from Amazon and Sony in that they allow the user to read and write. Hanvon's e-book readers are also Wi-Fi and 3G enabled.
IGRS was unique in that it was the only non cross-company association on the board. IGRS has created a convergence standard that includes such high-profile companies as Panasonic, Cisco, and Linksys. The aim of the standard is to create convergence across devices like PCs, TVs, and phones, accessible both in the home and via the Internet.
Patentics founder, Dr. Gang Qiu, gave the final presentation, highlighting his company's innovative search engine patents. Qiu referred to the technology as "intelligent search." With demo mockups of Google and Ging, Qiu showcased the way his company's technology incorporates full Web sites into search engine results by grabbing coded information from pages. The technology, according to Qiu, is also useful for patent searches.