Founded in 1986, Leadtek has more than three decades of experience in delivering high quality products and maintaining reliable supply. With its GPU-based graphics add-on card product quality steadily reaching new heights and its customer services getting stronger, Leadtek decided to expand into cloud services and healthcare solutions since 2000 and gradually penetrated into the market with a series of certifications including Taiwan Ministry of Health and Welfare, United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and EU medical institutions. Lu Kun-Shan, President of Leadtek, talked about the prospects of the company new developed hybrid cloud solutions and product highlights in Computex Taipei 2017 during this exclusive interview.
Versatile cloud services leveraging Deep Learning technology
With the rise of deep learning technology solving challenges across different types of industries, it is an exciting time for our customers as we are refreshing our products In Computex 2017, said Mr. Lu. In the past five years, Leadtek put resources to convert from hardware manufacturer to a cloud service company since 2000. Today, Leadtek's cloud solutions have been well integrated with VDI by leveraging full line of high-performance display systems including optimizing hardware configuration using NVIDIA's GRID technology for visual computing applications.
The GRID Server is a GPU-accelerated virtualization solution to deliver high-performance sharing of the GPU across multiple users specifically designed to enable rich, faster, interactive graphical experience to a variety of users in virtualized environments. The graphics designers, engineers, power users, or knowledge workers are able to enjoy highly responsive virtual desktops and 3D-intensive multimedia applications.
Furthermore, Leadtek leverages industry-leading virtualization solutions, such as VMware Horizon View, and PCoIP zero clients to complete a consistent, fully interoperable system. The zero client solution enables all computing resources and data to be transferred to the centralized server in a secure data center and lowers support overheads for most corporations. The whole system enhances enterprise data management and security while delivering an uncompromised end user experience over a standard IP network.
Cloud storage gives you the ability to access videos from anywhere and a larger storage capacity than the local recording devices. For better assist telecoms and system integrators of video surveillance and security IP camera applications to solve ever-increasing amounts of data streams, Leadtek engineering team uses OpenStack based infrastructure service to provide the distributed, scale-out cloud storage capability through the public cloud. With the virtualization and the scale-out OpenStack technology, Leadtek is strongly delivering this key message this Computex for audiences.
amorRunner Cloud services help physicians
Integrating a broad range of measurement devices for home use and real-time online health consultation services, Leadtek aims to deliver the complete and real-time health cloud home care solution with major hospitals and medical centers in Taiwan. With this solution, users will be able to use DxPatch, a dedicated ECG and Heart Sound Patch, to measure heart rate, heart sound which also combined with weight scale and other related information such as blood pressure, blood glucose, uploaded to the amorRunner Cloud health management platform through private cloud services. This cloud platform provides further analysis features in order to let physicians studying the data to find possible causes, symptoms and providing treatment Options. This year, this service has turned to a paid service through the corporate projects with several hospitals. It is a very positive move for gaining the trust from medical organizations. On the other hand, the commercial values of amorRunner Cloud Services have been well recognized by patients and boost the revenue incomes for Leadtek in the second half 2017, Lu talks very optimistically and proudly.
In addition to amorRunner cloud services, Leadtek has also integrated positioning service and video surveillance technologies in the smart home care solutions. Once the alarm is triggered, the systems including IP Camera, SIP NVR and CMS will automatically stream images from the location to the administrator's mobile devices. These series solutions will help health consultants or hospitals to notify the user when receiving a warning. For patients recovering at home after surgery, the solutions also offer medical wearables that provide integrated abilities to detect results of systolic parameters and abnormal heart sounds with the phonocardiogram and electrocardiogram coaxial analytical technique so physicians can provide remote care for patients when issues occur. This will help Leadtek to expand the services to local clinics or rural hospitals in the future.
Through the integration of the healthcare products and features such as physiological data measurement, home safety surveillance, physical exercise facilitation and professional teams to corporate with hospitals, Leadtek has created a well-rounded cloud service for health and safety care. In the next step, Leadtek will also strive to optimize professional services utilizing medical big data analytics and deep learning technology in its healthcare integration. During Computex in Leadtek's booth, there will be one demonstrative station to present the DxPatch and help participants to quickly trial for using the 10 seconds heart diagnosis.
A big boost of Kingdom Under Fire 2 gaming official release
Leadtek invested gaming titles for catching up the growing trend of display card market. It was clear that the overall gaming market contributing good sales of higher end display cards. The display card is an essential component when a new, demanding game comes out it can almost become an essential upgrade. This Year in 2017, the new updated online gaming title "Kingdom Under Fire 2(KUF2)" will hit the market after the formal release on May 25th 2017. The KUF2 is an action strategy video game developed by Blueside which merge real-time strategy (RTS), role-playing game (RPG) and massively multiplayer online game (MMO) configuration. This game title has been ranked as Top 3 of the most wanted gaming title in China and Taiwan. Leadtek has signed a distribution partnership contract and start promoting KUF2 covering Taiwan, China, Hong Kong, Macau and south east Asia market. In Computex booth, Leadtek will host several life demonstration of KUF2 and conduct play for free events for welcoming audience to do the free trial.
The demonstration of Leadtek products will be viewed from May 30 through June 3 2017 at the booth number A0422 of Taipei World Trade Center (TWTC) Exhibition Hall 1. For further exploring healthcare, gaming, deep learning and surveillance solutions and more, please also visit: www.leadtek.com
President of Leadtek Inc, Mr. Lu Kun-Shan Talks about cloud solutions and Leadtek showcase of Computex 2017
