WiGig Alliance showcases technology for Taiwan device designers and manufacturers

Taipei, Taiwan and Santa Clara, CA, April 5, 2012, Over 120 companies and 200 attendees, mostly from Taiwan’s ODM and OEM manufacturers, research institutes, certification labs, universities and media, have attended the WiGig Alliance Taipei office opening and technical briefing.

WiGig is emerging as the standard to link PCs, tablets, smart phones, handheld gadgets, peripherals, displays and other devices together seamlessly at home and in the office.

While giving the keynote remarks, Dr. Ali Sadri, President and Chairman of the WiGig delivered a live demo using WiGig technology. WiGig is now real with prototypes ready, certification beginning in Q2, 2013 and WiGig certified products also being launched at the same time.

The event was held at the NTUH International Convention Center.  Both Dr. Sadri and Dr. Cheng Sheng-Ching, Executive Secretary of the Committee of Communications Industry Development (CoCID) attended in person to unveil the official WiGig Alliance Taiwan office. After the ceremony, a technical briefing was held to share information with leaders in the consumer electronics industry and members of the press about WiGig systems.

“Taiwan is WiGig’s fourth branch office and follows the United States and Beijing. The reason we chose Taiwan is because it is a globally recognized ICT leader in OEM and ODM and it is a key partner for us as we seek industry-wide adoption of our technology. Today we demonstrated WiGig’s technology and applications and we expect this technology will change people’s lives,” said Dr. Sadri.

The technical briefing entitled, “The Emerging Technology: 60 GHz WiGig Alliance Presentation” featured speakers from Intel, Wilocity and MediaTek who addressed guests and gave details of WiGig’s MAC/PHY, WiGig Display Extension (WDE), WiGig Serial Extension (WSE) and WiGig Bus Extension (WBE) specifications.

Dr. Cheng Sheng-Ching, Executive Secretary of the Committee of Communications Industry Development of Taiwan (CoCID) commented: “Taiwan is a global centre for ICT manufacturing. We are pleased that WiGig has taken the decision to open an office here. We have been supporting WiGig, especially on the recent technical briefing which saw attendance from many of the industry’s most important technology developers. There is a lot of excitement about WiGig, and we aim to assist in the creation of an ecosystem for the technology which will be beneficial not only for WiGig but also Taiwan’s industry.” 

Momentum for WiGig has continued to grow in the last month with Huawei joining the board and ZTE signing up to participate as an official contributor. The WiGig Alliance is now calling for even more developer involvement in the creation of the world’s first unified specification for multi-gigabit wireless docking.

After WiGig’s first successful plugfest in late 2011 more are scheduled throughout 2012 with the first release of certified WiGig products set for early 2013. For further information follow @WiGigAlliance or visit http://wirelessgigabitalliance.org/