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Tokushige: Three business topics are presented below.

First, we have signed a distributor agreement with Qualcomm Inc. and today began handling SoC, module and circuit board products equipped with AI-specific processors.

Qualcomm is a company with strengths in telecommunications semiconductors, but recently it has been increasing its presence in the field of edge AI.

In addition to PCs and smartphones, edge AI is expected to be used in industrial and medical devices in the future, and Qualcomm is expanding its product lineup for embedded applications.

Our company will support the introduction of edge AI into the industrial equipment field by leveraging its long-standing track record in embedded Windows OS sales and its customer base in the industrial equipment field.

Second, we utilized the latest model of Cerebras Systems' AI accelerator, the CS-3, to develop our own large-scale Japanese language model using our own data.

In addition to equipment sales, the company will offer engineering services to support the development of models that individually learn from data held by customers.

Third, as announced on July 31, 2024, the Company will absorb FAST CORPORATION, a wholly owned subsidiary of the Company, on January 1, 2025.

FAST CORPORATION, which became a wholly owned subsidiary in 2018, has played a major role in the development of private brand products such as wafer inspection systems and vision automation systems.

Through this absorption merger, we will strengthen our technological development base and accelerate the speed of development by restructuring our development system.