These innovation will affect our life in 2018.
1、Artificial intelligence.
Just like ten years ago, efforts to implement digital advantage, each segment of customers are feverishly trying to understand the artificial intelligence and machine learning to the value of its business.As economic affordability/performance continuously eliminate obstacles, such as, plus some AI specific application in the industrial environment gradually produced the efficiency and the influence of the application layer, focus on the application of the AI will accelerate in 2018.AI, for example, has developed into the industrial robot without special training can learn and adapt to the new environment or not familiar with the object of stage.Through the innovation of the low power signal processing, the edge node of the AI will begin to shift from novelty for the conventional technology, and through the context data and information, promote the edge between the cloud and more intelligent system partition, edge makes intelligent computing a reality.At the same time, competition with human intelligence AI applications will continue to study by the university as the leading factor.

Vincent Roche ADI (CEO).
2、Independent/intelligent machines.
In 2018, cars, drones and robot autonomous system will continue to develop, but because of some regulations and technical problems remaining to be solved by limitation.However, the next few months, some of the independent system of the project plan will continue to let us see progress, for example in the restricted area for the deployment of unmanned taxi is one of them.Especially the long-distance transportation, such as trucks and trains will be recent unmanned make substantive progress within one application.In pursuit of productivity benefits, driven by driving force for the machine to add intelligence will also speed up factory automation/industrial process of 4.0.The progress of machine learning, for example, will significantly improve the ability of system, and according to their own independent state monitoring provide valuable advice and performance prediction.
3、Ubiquitous wireless sensor networks and data.
Advanced materials, enhanced functionality and MEMS, the combination of the sensor size and cost to breakthrough, make it possible for wireless sensor network (WSN) is everywhere.Through the wireless mesh network deployment in the Internet of things and industrial application without a lot of rewiring sensing function is added in the existing system.However, from the sensor to the cloud end-to-end security will become the basic requirement of industrial users to large-scale deployment of the Internet of things.Let products and driving force of the system more intelligent, will also increase management and data flow analysis of the growing demand.As the data load increasing, data center will need higher processing performance, as well as advanced power management innovation, to alleviate the risks of a data center system to produce high temperature.We will also see the edge nodes integrated more intelligent, which began to classify the data flow and processing.
4、The man-machine interface.
With the vigorous development of augmented reality and virtual reality ecosystems and inspire more innovation, mixed reality system will continue to emerge and spread.As the commercial AR/VR system application acceleration, the cost will decline, the applicable scope will be extended to areas such as industrial long-distance diagnosis and repair.In addition, voice user interaction has been expected, but this technique still faces some limitations, especially in a noisy environment.Gartner predicts that in 2018 30% and technology interaction with intelligent machines "dialogue", which means that the technology and service providers need to invest right now, in order to improve the current limited voice interaction.
5、Heterogeneous manufacturing.
With the development of deep sub-micron technology soaring costs and Moore's law is facing more and more severe challenge technology and cost, a single package, single-layer laminate or even a single silicon substrate on a variety of technology of heterogeneous integration will increase.Prompted heterogeneous manufacturing the capitalization of the new business models will emerge, so that unable to investment in the most advanced IC lithography small semiconductor manufacturers realize the innovation in restructuring.On a wider range and larger providers, the signal processing algorithm are integrated into the chip will help improve its value.
Chip Source Professional electronic components distributor.