Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) sees the opportunity for growth in a wave of digital gaming solutions ranging from gaming machines in casinos, amusement with prize (AWP), as well as video arcades in recreational facilities, Japan's Pachinko and Pachislo segment, and video lottery terminals (VLT) worldwide.

In addition to introducing a full range of embedded application products that meet the OpenCL specification, US-based Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) has collaborated with its industrial partners to develop multiple application procedures, code samples, and software libraries that can exert the parallel computing performances of the heterogeneous multicore architecture APUs and GPUs using the Accelerated Parallel Processing (APP) technology from AMD.

Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) has launched a full range of OpenCL-compatible heterogeneous parallel processing products, including traditional x86 CPU, GPU and integrated APU chips, as well as embedded GPU chips/MXM modules and add-on cards, etc.

Due to huge industrial ecology as well as hardware and software support, NXP has introduced the 100% focused 32-bit ARM architecture low power consumption (LPC) series MicroController Unit (MCU) with low pin count, low power consumption, and low cost simplified system design that can be used for intelligent industrial control applications such as outdoor lighting equipment, factory automation, equipment HMI human interface devices, elevator/lift controls, touch applications, smart grid/ammeter, and smart indoor lighting.

Phoenix SecureCore Technology (Phoenix SCT) 3.0, the latest UEFI BIOS firmware from Phoenix Technologies, uses a graphical user interface to simplify once obscure BIOS settings. It uses an integrated development environment to accelerate firmware development, debugging, and customization in order to enhance boot performance while providing peripheral and system security support. Phoenix SCT 3.0 is playing a significant pioneering and innovative role in the next generation of BIOS. It is the first firmware in the industry to provide native EDK II support, backward compatibility support for EDK 1117, and cross-border applications for tablet PCs, ultrabooks, embedded systems, and servers.

The defense, aerospace, transportation, outdoor, mining development, high temperature, and chemical industry fields often encounter extreme or corrosive chemical environments. Advantech, which provides services for long-term management of embedded applications, has proposed embedded application solutions for these types of extreme environments.

The quality and durability of successive generations of flash memories have tended to drop. Industrial customers are often only willing to use costly SLC memory, which limits SSD capacities for industrial control applications. The flash SSD/DOM industry has incorporated iSLC memory technology which is 10 times more durable than MLC, as well as key technologies that can maintain and monitor program/erase (P/E) wear leveling. This allows MLC to be integrated into lightweight industrial control applications, while iSLC memory will become the new darling of industrial control applications.

Today, the importance of hardware virtualization has continued to increase from home entertainment to the mobile market. A higher level of security and content protection can be achieved through hardware virtualization. An increasing number of consumers have used such hardware virtualization to perform mobile payments, HD media streaming, Cloud storage, or even secure ID protections where highly secured applications are required.