{"id":7706,"date":"2024-08-21T14:01:00","date_gmt":"2024-08-21T05:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shinko-sj.co.jp\/wp2024\/?p=7706"},"modified":"2025-05-16T10:57:10","modified_gmt":"2025-05-16T01:57:10","slug":"sima-aiinc-%e3%81%a8-%e6%97%a5%e6%9c%ac%e7%8b%ac%e5%8d%a0%e8%b2%a9%e5%a3%b2%e4%bb%a3%e7%90%86%e5%ba%97%e5%a5%91%e7%b4%84%e3%82%92%e7%b7%a0%e7%b5%90%e3%81%84%e3%81%9f%e3%81%97%e3%81%be%e3%81%97","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shinko-sj.co.jp\/en\/info\/2024\/08\/21\/7706\/","title":{"rendered":"We have signed an exclusive sales agency contract with SiMa.ai, Inc. in Japan."},"content":{"rendered":"

Shinko Shoji Co., Ltd. (Head office: Shinagawa-ku, Tokyo; President and CEO: Tatsuya Ogawa; hereinafter "Shinko Shoji") has signed an exclusive sales agency agreement for Japan with SiMa Technologies, Inc. (hereinafter "SiMa.ai").
Founded in 2018, SiMa.ai is headquartered in San Jose, USA, with operations in Germany, Belgium, Italy, South Korea and India.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We are a company that develops and sells software-centric embedded edge AI (MLSoC: system-on-chip), and provide full-stack edge AI solutions from silicon to software.
Their platform will be an edge AI platform that can flexibly adapt to various frameworks, networks, AI models, and sensors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The global edge computing market is expected to reach US$893.93 billion by the end of 2036, a growth of 39.651 TP3T from 2024. (Research Nester, January 23, 2024)
The market size in Japan is expected to reach 1.6 trillion yen in 2024, and is expected to expand by 43% to 2.3 trillion yen in 2027. (From the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications' 2024 Information and Communications White Paper)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We aim to expand sales in this market at a rate that exceeds the growth rate of the Japanese market by providing our SiMa.ai image edge AI solution, which consumes less power than conventional products, for applications such as monitoring, security, customer analysis in stores, and external inspection in manufacturing plants. We are currently in concrete discussions with more than 10 companies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[Compatible applications]<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Providing solutions specialized for applications that require advanced image AI and low power consumption<\/p>\n\n\n

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[Features of SiMa.ai Image Edge AI]<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

1. Original device "MLSoC"<\/strong>
We implement a dedicated image AI accelerator in hardware on our original SoC (MLSoC) to achieve the industry's lowest power consumption and provide an SoC (50TOPS) that is optimal for edge AI processing.<\/p>\n\n\n

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2. Development Kit MLSOC\u2122 Development Kit 2<\/strong>
We provide a development environment that allows you to input data from general-purpose frameworks (TensorFlow, PyTorch, ONIX, etc.) using our original development tool (Palette) and implement and evaluate it on MLSoC in a short period of time.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Ordering Information Development Kit 2: SKU# MLSOC-DEV-16GB-200-AB (Sale price $1,995)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

3. Production board<\/strong>
We offer two types of production-ready boards and a development kit.
(Mass-produced board: HHHL type (PCIe Half-height, Half-length) \/ Dual M.2 type)<\/p>\n\n\n

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About SiMa Technologies, Inc.<\/strong>
Headquarters: 333 W. San Carlos St. Suite 1100 San Jose, CA 95110, USA
Representative: Krishna Rangasayee
Established: 2018
Business description: Development and sales of SoC devices specialized for image AI processing and mass-produced boards
URL:\u00a0SiMa Technologies,Inc. Website<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[About Shinko Shoji Co., Ltd.]<\/strong>
Head office: 13F ,Art Village Osaki Central Tower,
1-2-2 Osaki, Shinagawa-ku, Tokyo 141-8540, Japan
Representative: President and CEO Tatsuya Ogawa
Established: 1953
Business description: Sales of electronic components and equipment such as integrated circuits and semiconductor elements
URL:Shinko Shoji Co., Ltd. Website<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[Contact for inquiries regarding this matter]<\/strong>
Company name: Shinko Shoji Co., Ltd.
Department: Third Solution Technology Department Phone: +81-3-6361-8090
Overseas Sales Promotion Department Phone: +81-3-6361-8064
Email:ml_sima.ai@st.shinko-sj.co.jp<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\nExternal press release here<\/span><\/a>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Shinko Shoji Co., Ltd. (Head office: Shinagawa-ku, Tokyo; CEO: Tatsuya Ogawa; hereinafter, Shinko Shoji) has announced that it has announced the launch of SiMa Technolo [\u2026]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_editorskit_title_hidden":false,"_editorskit_reading_time":0,"_editorskit_is_block_options_detached":false,"_editorskit_block_options_position":"{}","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-info"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shinko-sj.co.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7706"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shinko-sj.co.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shinko-sj.co.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shinko-sj.co.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shinko-sj.co.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7706"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/shinko-sj.co.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7706\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9422,"href":"https:\/\/shinko-sj.co.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7706\/revisions\/9422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shinko-sj.co.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shinko-sj.co.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shinko-sj.co.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}