Macnica wins "Best Distributor of the Year" award from NVIDIA for the second consecutive year! ~ Highly praised for verification programs with technical support for companies considering introducing AI ~

Macnica (headquarters: Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture, President: Kazumasa Hara, hereinafter referred to as Macnica) today announced that CLAVIS Company has won the "Best Distributor of the Year" award for the second consecutive year at the NVIDIA Partner Network Awards 2024.

[Award-winning photo]

From the left
Hidenori Iwanaga, General Manager of Partner Business Division, NVIDIA Corporation
Macnica Co-CEO Akinobu Miyoshi
Geoff Fancher, VP, Head of Worldwide Distribution, NVIDIA
Chuck Tybur, SVP, NVIDIA Partner Network (NPN), NVIDIA
Darrin Nail Chen, VP, Global Partners (NPN) Go-to-Market and Operations, NVIDIA

Macnica has won the Best Distributor of the Year award at the NVIDIA Partner Network Awards 2024. The NVIDIA Partner Network Award is given to partners who have made a transformative impact in expanding and raising awareness of AI use in a wide range of industries, and in the adoption of NVIDIA GPUs, networking technologies, and software. This is the second year in a row that the Company has won the Best Distributor of the Year award in recognition of the following achievements:

■ Largest sales record in Japan ^*1
In addition to our strengths, such as the Company high technical capabilities and wide range of support for NVIDIA products, we also have a rich ecosystem of partner companies for utilizing AI, which has led to us being chosen by customers from a wide range of industries and enabling us to achieve the highest sales results among all domestic distributors of NVIDIA products.

■ Accelerating NVIDIA's Partner Ecosystem Macnica Original "AI TRY NOW PROGRAM
Further enhancing the "AI TRY NOW ^PROGRAM*2", which provides customers interested in adopting AI but hesitant to take the first step, NVIDIA has developed the "AI TRY NOW PROGRAM" for generative AI, large-scale language models (LLM), drug discovery, and quantum computing development. Inception (a program for startups that are revolutionizing their industries through technological advancements) partners for their strategic and concrete activities at Macnica, such as enhancing the program to focus on specific markets and technology areas in conjunction with software provided by the partners.

Macnica has its own in-house AI implementation consultants and AI research team, and is also involved in the business of implementing AI using NVIDIA's products and services. We will continue to further strengthen our collaboration with NVIDIA and provide products and services that meet the needs of our customers while keeping an eye on the changes in society brought about by AI.

We will also be introducing the latest NVIDIA solutions and the AI TRY NOW PROGRAM at the Company event "The Frontline of Generative AI - How to Feel and Act at NVIDIA GTC2024" on April 24, 2024.

・Venue: Macnica Shinagawa Office (5 minutes walk from JR Shinagawa Station)
・Date: Wednesday, April 24, 2024
・Time: 15:30 to 18:45
URL: https://www.macnica.co.jp/business/semiconductor/events/nvidia/145093/

*1: Based on sales results for fiscal year 2023 at domestic distributors

*2: AI TRY NOW PROGRAM
This is a support program for those who are considering introducing the latest NVIDIA software platform, including NVIDIA AI Enterprise and NVIDIA Omniverse™ Enterprise. the Company engineers have already carefully selected the AI technology best suited to solving the problem and have created an environment for it, so customers do not need to prepare the environment themselves. It is possible to deepen your understanding of software products, including NVIDIA AI Enterprise and NVIDIA Omniverse, and to investigate the feasibility of your implementation goals in advance.
For more information is here
https://www.macnica.co.jp/business/semiconductor/manufacturers/nvidia/products/143484/

[For inquiries regarding this matter, please contact:]
Macnica CLAVIS Company Company NVIDIA Products
Tel: 045-470-9821

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