Key Development Forecasts for the Next Year

Beijing December 22, Intel Asia Pacific management team on Asia in the coming year, the six major trends in the development of a forecast, the results are as follows:

First, emerging Asia and the connected population.

Second, Asia brings innovation to the world.

Third, the future of touch and mobile devices.

Fourth, the goals of all governments in 2013, education and entrepreneurship.

Fifth, small and medium enterprises embrace science and technology.

Sixth, the cloud will swell the business community in 2013.

Market watchers believe emerging markets across Asia will contribute nearly half of global GDP growth between 2010 and 2025. McKinsey predicts that annual consumption in emerging markets will reach 30 trillion U.S. dollars by 2025, which will be the largest growth opportunity in capitalism. Because employees want to connect through various channels and build new and efficient ways to work with colleagues, organizations are set to build a variety of networking systems.

Many companies also invest a large proportion of their budget in IT-led innovation and development. According to a recent IDC survey, such investments as Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore and Thailand accounted for 39.8% of the total corporate budget in 2013.

Tablet computers, deformable computers, and a variety of new devices will be massively marketed, blurring the line between PCs and tablets. According to Gartner's forecast, multimedia tablet shipments in 2015 will account for half of all laptops.

Intel pointed out that over the years cloud computing has been the focus of discussion, traffic growth is still rapid growth in the world, is expected to grow by 6 times in 2016. Among them, the Asia-Pacific region is the main force for this wave of growth and generates most of the cloud traffic each year, reaching 1.5 zB (zettabyte). To illustrate the specific example, if a 325 ml coffee cup on the desk is equal to 1GB, then 1ZB is equivalent to the Great Wall.

2013 will be the turning point for the Asia-Pacific region to build a cloud. Systems and information that have always been confined to an independent environment will be completely released. The agencies' line numbers and IT executives will eventually be able to put into practice their cloud initiatives, turning years of preparation into an ideal future for cloud computing. According to IDG's survey, cloud computing continues to grow in the Asia Pacific region: 31% of IT planners in Asia plan to build a cloud environment in the next 12 months; 26% of respondents are embarking on the Cloud Pre-Test Program 28% said they have set up cloud systems at one or more locations.