リョーサン菱洋ホールディングス has entered into a distributorship agreement with Taiwan-based MediaTek and will promote the use of MediaTek’s SoCs in the domestic market, primarily in the automotive and industrial equipment sectors. With a view to introducing edge AI and physical AI, the company will establish dedicated FAE and sales teams and strengthen support from the research and development stage, including proposals for custom boards.
リョーサン菱洋, a business subsidiary of リョーサン菱洋ホールディングス, announced that it had entered into a distributorship agreement with Taiwan-based MediaTek. MediaTek has a strong track record centered on SoCs for smartphones and plans to expand the use of its technology into the automotive and industrial equipment sectors.
The background includes the growing importance of physical AI and edge AI in supporting the development of next-generation vehicles that use AI, as well as autonomous operation by robots and industrial equipment. MediaTek is expanding into areas that require edge AI by drawing on its high-performance, low-power semiconductor technology.
リョーサン菱洋 will use its sales network for MCUs and memory to expand its customer base among automotive component manufacturers, while leveraging its connections in the consumer electronics, IoT and industrial equipment sectors, where the use of SoCs and communications devices is advancing, to promote market expansion. The company will establish a system to support customers from the product development stage, including support for large-scale AI infrastructure deployment and edge AI system implementation.
The two companies aim to combine their technology and customer bases to help create next-generation mobility and intelligent device markets in Japan. They plan to establish a framework for providing strong support for customers’ product development by drawing on MediaTek’s advanced semiconductors and リョーサン菱洋’s strengths in the automotive and industrial equipment sectors.