Five Technology Trends in 2016 from the Top 10 Silicon Valley Frontier Companies (Translation)

Trend 1: New chips and biological simulations

Trend 2: Artificial intelligence and service robots
　　What will be the next big thing after the mobile phone? There is a group of people in Silicon Valley who believe the "Next Big Thing" is a service robot.

Trend 3: Nanotechnology, New Materials and New Energy The requirement of
　　technological progress for new hardware directly leads to the pursuit of new materials. Nanotechnology is a technology that uses single atoms and molecules to make substances. The ultimate pursuit of nanotechnology is to combine all kinds of molecules arbitrarily, and any kind of molecular structure can be produced. Of course, this distant future dream has not stopped today's research on nanomaterials. IBM announced in July 2014 that it would invest $3 billion in the development of 7nm chips over the next five years.

Trend 4: Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality and New Social
　　Technology Another hot spot in 2015 is virtual reality and augmented reality. The US technology website Techcrunch.com predicts that the global augmented reality and virtual reality market will reach $150 billion by 2020. This means that 2016 is a year of accelerated development of virtual reality and augmented reality.

Trend 5: New Software and New IT