[Event Report] “Japan IT Week 2024 Spring,” held at the end of April 2024. This report covers the booths of nine partner companies, part one.

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From April 24th to 26th, 2024, the “Japan IT Week Spring 2024” was held at Tokyo Big Sight. It is one of Japan’s largest IT festivals, gathering around 900 companies and services across various genres related to AI and IT, including generative AI applications, DX promotion, information security, IT operations management, marketing DX, and services for stores and e-commerce. This time, nine partner companies showcased their products in combination with products from Axell and ax Inc. This report delivers the strategies at each booth, alongside comments from the company representatives.

At the “Embedded/Edge Computing Exhibition,” five companies exhibited, including VIA Technologies Japan Inc., V-net AAEON Co., Ltd., Toradex Japan Co., Ltd., ISB Co., Ltd., and DynaComware Co., Ltd. They displayed embedded systems using GPUs and SoCs, edge AI, and services and solutions that link edge and cloud.

VIA Technologies Japan Inc.

VIA Technologies Japan, a global company connecting advanced AI, IoT, and computer vision technologies to edge, industrial, and building solutions, demonstrated its edge AI platform “ARTiGO A5000” equipped with the MediaTek Genio 700 octa-core processor, featuring ailia for MediaTek.

“As a manufacturer that deals with boards and gateways and uses many MediaTek SoCs, there are still few people who can operate AI-targeted APUs effectively. However, Axell has expertise in AI and excels at materializing such products, enabling us to use APUs to run models more quickly and efficiently. At this exhibition, many customers were surprised by how fast it runs. Like many IT companies, our company is absorbing the latest information from IoT and AI and entering a phase of deploying this information. In the current shift from cloud to edge, a significant challenge is how efficiently we can operate edge computers (Sales Manager Takumi Koma).”

V-net AAEON Co., Ltd.

V-net AAEON, contributing to the revitalization of the industrial world through the development and sale of computers and hardware systems, demonstrated the latest AI DX app “ailia DX Insight” and their edge computers like “BOXER-8641/BOXER-8640,” which come standard with “ailia SDK.”

“Our company primarily handles hardware platforms and develops and sells AI edge computers. We focus on providing services that allow customers to start using AI immediately after receiving and powering on the devices. Therefore, incorporating Axell’s “ailia SDK” into our products is essential for us to deliver them to customers. AI has begun to permeate society a bit before the pandemic, and the industry is now moving from the Proof of Concept phase to mass production. Previously, PCs equipped with GPUs were used, but now it’s required that AI edge computing can operate stably for a long time even in harsh environments like factories. The keyword ‘AI edge computing’ will become increasingly unavoidable (President Hideo Yazaki).”

Toradex Japan Co., Ltd.

Celebrating its 20th anniversary, Toradex, based in Lucerne, Switzerland, with Toradex Japan serving as its Japanese branch, has been actively involved in the industrial sectors with its uniquely developed computer modules and compact, pin-compatible embedded computing solutions. Their products, utilizing ailia brand solutions, attracted attention at the event with real-life demonstrations of “ailia for NXP & Toradex.”

“As a company where 80-90% of our engineers handle software development, we provide IoT solutions to a broad range of industries worldwide. At this event, we exhibited the computer-on-module “Verdin iMX8M Plus” equipped with NXP, using it for an embedded AI inference framework with Axell’s “ailia for NXP & Toradex.” By combining Axell’s software with our hardware, we hope to open up new possibilities in the market. Edge AI computing is gaining attention worldwide, and as a company, we are keen to strengthen and offer semi-custom solutions (President Alvaro Garcia).”

ISB Co., Ltd.

ISB provides software development across a wide range of areas from upstream to downstream processes in the solutions business, including business systems, finance, automotive, and medical embedded systems. They exhibited the cross-platform application and UI framework “Qt” for multi-device and embedded device development. The “Qt” module, developed in collaboration with Axell, is designed to run on the industrial SoC “AG903.”

“Our group has about 2,000 engineers engaged in software development, about half of whom handle embedded-related tasks. Particularly in the past decade, we have focused on display solutions, and “Qt,” exhibited this time, is representative of that. From small to large monitors, it is incorporated into various device sizes and is also used in automotive applications. Originally strong in graphics, Axell has collaborated through this product. Especially “Qt,” which was difficult to operate because of the special graphics chip, can now run smoothly on the industrial SoC “AG903″ thanks to the development of a dedicated module with Axell. There is a lot of demand for such devices currently, especially from the medical and industrial sectors. In terms of app development including display devices, we expect to receive more inquiries from other fields in the future (Sales Division, Tomonari Miyazaki).”

DynaComware Co., Ltd.

DynaComware Co., Ltd., a Taiwanese company that operates the “DynaFont” brand as Asia’s leading font vendor, also exhibited. As pioneers in fonts, they provide functional characters that are easy on the eyes and highly legible, displayed on embedded devices and other platforms. They develop a wide variety of characters in-house, covering scripts from around the world. At their booth, they conducted demonstrations using Axell’s industrial SoC “AG903.”

“We handle characters displayed on everything from printed materials to apps, and our development of fonts dates back to the era of word processors. We have a track record of dealing with a wide range of devices, from coarse-resolution black-and-white LCDs displayed in dots to modern devices like tablets. As such, we have considerable expertise in characters displayed on embedded devices and pride ourselves as a very strong vendor. We have been collaborating with Axell on demonstrations of screen displays using the industrial SoC ‘AG903’ for several years. By working on font development from a variety of perspectives, not just the characters but also considering the hardware side, we hope to explore needs in a broader range of genres for embedded device fonts going forward,” says Ryusuke Mishima, Corporate Sales.

In the next part, we will deliver information on booths of partner companies that exhibited at the ‘IoT Solutions Exhibition’ and the ‘IT Operations Management & Data Center EXPO’.

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Japan IT Week
https://www.japan-it.jp

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