Taiwan’s New Strength: Industrial PCs

Protech and the Wisdom to Stay Home

Engel Wu has resisted the urge to pursue quick profits in China, instead staying in Taiwan to oversee Protech Systems’ transformation from the bleak PC industry to the opportunity-rich industrial computer (IPC) sector and its 50% margins.

Taiwan’s New Strength: Industrial PCs

Ennoconn – Beating the Goliaths of the Industry

Through mergers and acquisitions, strategic alliances and dedicated factories, the electronic manufacturing service provider Ennoconn Corp., a subsidiary of Hong Hai, has reinvented itself as a maker of customized industrial computers.

Taiwan’s New Strength: Industrial PCs

For Adlink, R&D Paying Big Dividends

Many of Taiwan’s PC makers are stuck in low-margin purgatory. Not Adlink Technology. Through its heavy investment in R&D, the industrial PC maker sells sophisticated products that generate solid returns.

Taiwan’s New Strength: Industrial PCs

Advantech the World No. 1

Foreseeing the volatility of consumer electronics 10 years ago, Advantech Co. set its sights on industrial computers. The strategy now has it positioned at the forefront of Taiwan's – and China's–foray into "Industry 4.0" and the Internet of Things.

Taiwan's New Strength: Industrial PCs

Despite recent economic downturns, one sector is managing to thrive. Industrial PCs, long unnoticed, are now seen as the future backbone of the emerging Internet of Things.

The Great Deflation

Taiwan: Escaping the China Trap

Amid concerns that China's attempts to boost slowing economic growth and stem capital outflows could cause a global recession, Taiwan's dependence on the Chinese export market is coming back to haunt it.

Grand Rower Su Tar-zen

Kayaking the Globe

Retirement is not an end, but the beginning of the pursuit of dreams. Former National Taiwan Ocean University professor Su Tar-zen is helping young, old, and wheelchair-bound people to pursue grand ocean dreams via kayak.