ROG Ally goes on sale worldwide on 13th! Powered by Windows 11 Home operating system, it supports cross-platform games such as Xbox Game Pass and Steam.[Photo/Courtesy of ASUS]
ASUS (2357) ROG Ally flagship edition 512GB gaming handhelds will go on sale on 13 June, will it become a performance monster for gaming in the second half of the year? The supply chain refers to the handheld by the Inventec OEM; Inventec will also start the generation inheritance. Founder Kou-I Yeh's second son, Sam Yeh, joined the board of directors last term and was rumoured to take over the chairmanship after the shareholders' meeting. He is leading four new applications such as 5G private network, metaverse, automotive electronics, and Smart IoT, revealing a new wave of direction for the Inventec Group.
ASUS gaming handheld ROG Ally on sale
ASUS gaming handhelds will be sold overseas first, and the flagship 512GB SSD version will make its global debut on June 13. Both Best Buy and Taiwan pre-sales are buzzing with activity, and not only do gamers leave high ratings on Best Buy, but 95% of gamers say that they are willing to recommend their friends to buy the ASUS gaming handhelds. And according to supply chain news, Inventec is the main co-manufacturing partner, and this is the deepening of the co-operation between the two parties in the gaming field after Inventec's OEM of ASUS ROG flagship gaming laptop business.
ASUS co-CEO Samson Hu predicts in the Q1 earnings presentation that ROG Ally expects a single-quarter contribution of $5 to $10 billion in the second half of the year, translating into a two-quarter target of $10 to $20 billion. In addition to Inventec as the assembler of the handheld, Ally peripherals are co-operated by other suppliers, such as the remote control handle for the Dashine Electronics OEM.
‘Congratulations to Steam Deck and us!’, ASUS Chairman Jonney Shih also mentions ROG Ally at the regular shareholders' meeting last week on the 9th, saying that from the perspective of gaming software, ROG Ally cooperates with Microsoft's Game Pass platform, and the number of games that players can get is far greater than that of STEAM, so ASUS is very confident, and makes a lot of efforts in terms of both functions and experience.
Jonney Shih says that the demand for e-sports is still strong, and it will be one of the businesses that ASUS will actively grow before it develops into a metaverse, and ASUS will also prepare for the layout or changes in 2~3 years in advance, and come up with the ones that other people can't do, and arrange them in advance.
Since taking office, Inventec Group's Chief Strategy Officer, Sam Yeh, has led the Group to actively layout new technologies such as 5G and metaverse [Reporter Su Jianzhong / Photography]
Inventec esports ally, Sam Yeh dominates the metaverse and 5G
In addition to assisting ASUS ROG killer new products, Inventec has also accelerated the transformation in recent years. Besides the core notebook and server business, with Sam Yeh as the head of strategy, the group layout is also towards diversification.In addition to the 5G business will grab the first incense to apply for Taiwan's private network license, Inventec has also set up the "metaverse" business unit in 2022, and cooperate with Microsoft's voice AI assistant Copilot to build the metaverse virtual reality platform (VRSTATE), which has already been announced at COMPUTEX 2023.
Inventec creates VRSTATE platform, which shows that you can visit online COMPUTEX with naked eyes and have a meeting with Chairman Zhuo Tonghua. [Reporter Wang Yulun / Photography]
Focusing on the business opportunities of the digital economy, Inventec's Virtual Reality State (VRSTATE) has created a virtual metaverse to provide enterprise customers with digital content creation, AI model training, and digital security governance services, such as assisting in the creation of a nurturing metaverse, an education metaverse, a cultural and creative metaverse, an industrial metaverse, and an entertainment metaverse, helping customers to create a virtual exhibition or conference room, and even assisting with the training of AI models for prerecording. It can even help train AI models to pre-record multi-language conversion and text generation services to create digital doppelgangers such as the one used by Jensen Huang, the founder of NVIDIA, to attend speeches.
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AIM Intelligence uses NVIDIA's Jetson platform to develop edge computing system PAECIA has shipped hundreds of units. [Reporter Wang Yulun / Photography]