At the beginning of the new year, Vientiane will be renewed, and 2023 will be a year full of "chips". Can IoT ecology be the "sweet pastry" in the eyes of investors in 2023? And can the image sensor (CIS) market get out of the 13-year industry winter? In this issue, we invited Ahmed Banafa, a lecturer and academic consultant at San Jose State University, and Jeffrey Mathews, a senior analyst at Strategy Analytics (now part of TechInsights), to talk to us about the future of the IoT and image sensor industries.