MICROIP (Stock Code: 7796), a company dedicated to AI software and ASIC design services, officially announced its strategic layout to deepen its presence in the "Great South" at the "2026 Wealth Magazine City Forum." During the key panel discussion titled "Rise of the South: Kaohsiung's Industrial Transformation," MICROIP Chairman Dr. James Yang stated that as southern Taiwan's semiconductor S-corridor and AIoT innovation clusters take shape, MICROIP—built upon its profound ASIC design capabilities—has comprehensively upgraded into a system-level solution provider offering AI hardware-software integration. Moving forward, the company will leverage southern Taiwan as the core validation ground for cutting-edge technologies, serving as a "Technical Partner" for local industries. It aims to transform locally refined AI applications into standardized business models, injecting a new engine into the company's next wave of operational growth.

MICROIP Chairman Dr. James Yang (center) attends the "2026 Wealth Magazine City Forum", joining a panel discussion with industry leaders including Taipower Chairman Tseng Wen-sheng (right) and Eternal Materials President Liao Heng-ning (left), to announce MICROIP’s AI strategic layout for deepening its presence in the Great South.

Breaking Hardware Locks: Introducing Subscription and Licensing Mechanisms to Build a Niche AI Business Model

Chairman Dr. James Yang pointed out that Kaohsiung is undergoing a historic turning point, boldly transforming from a traditional industrial city that once "shouldered Taiwan" into one of the international industrial cores that will "navigate the future." However, when most local enterprises and public engineering projects adopt AI transformation, they are often constrained by the hardware specifications of single major chip manufacturers. This results in rigid underlying architectures and persistently high implementation and expansion costs.

MICROIP’s core advantage lies in its exceptionally high "cross-platform compatibility" and a flexible underlying architecture that breaks hardware-software locks, seamlessly supporting mainstream global chip architectures such as NVIDIA, Intel, Arm, and Axelera AI. This underlying design, unconstrained by specific hardware frameworks, overcomes the limitations of traditional highly customized projects. By pivoting toward a new business model characterized by "high flexibility and replicability," it significantly lowers the entry barrier for customers and rapidly expands market penetration. Regarding the pricing mechanism, MICROIP will gradually expand modular hardware-software integration solutions, such as software licensing and AIaaS (AI-as-a-Service) subscription models. This strategic move will effectively increase the company's proportion of recurring revenue and overall gross margin, building a profitable moat with long-tail benefits.

AIVO Edge Vision Architecture: Deploying in High-Dynamic Heavy-Duty Environments, Targeting a Multi-Billion-Dollar Potential Market

In terms of real-world applications, MICROIP is actively promoting the AIVO vision platform to critical infrastructure and high-dynamic heavy-duty operational environments. Facing the complex operational environments commonly seen in southern large-scale logistics hubs and high-tech semiconductor fabs, the AIVO platform’s flexible architecture exhibits excellent environmental adaptability. It can effectively process the heterogeneity of front-end sensing equipment and overcome the interference of severe lighting fluctuations. Through the phased deployment of edge computing nodes, the system is expected to bypass the limitations of traditional image comparison, executing "multi-target precise feature extraction and classification" against complex backgrounds. This assists facility owners in building proactive industrial safety warning mechanisms to prevent potential hazards.

Looking at the global smart transportation and critical infrastructure market, which is estimated to exceed 250 billion USD by 2030, this field-validated modular architecture is currently rapidly expanding into AI proactive security for domestic urban rail systems and traffic flow management at major transportation nodes, demonstrating strong potential for scalable expansion.

Proprietary Algorithms Maximize Group Synergy; Edge AI Business to Gradually Show Substantial Results in the Second Half of the Year

For wide-area drone inspection applications, such as smart grids and large petrochemical plant pipelines, the AIVO vision platform utilizes MICROIP's fully proprietary image processing algorithms to successfully lightweight massive AI models. This achieves a perfect balance between edge computing performance and ultra-low power consumption. When implementing complex systems, MICROIP further leverages its group synergy by partnering with its group company, Arculus EDA Taiwan. By combining Arculus's profound expertise in underlying ASIC design and EDA validation tools, MICROIP creates a one-stop service from chip to system for its clients.

Chairman Dr. James Yang emphasized that MICROIP will not solely act as a technology provider; instead, it aims to become a "stakeholder" that participates in value creation alongside the city. MICROIP's strategic goal in the Great South is explicitly clear: through deep cultivation and validation in Kaohsiung, the company will refine standardized AI modules with a high commercial niche. Moving forward, MICROIP will aggressively export this mature "Kaohsiung Experience" and innovative business models to the global market, injecting endless momentum into long-term operational growth. With the continuous advancement of related real-world validation projects, the edge AI platform and solutions are expected to gradually demonstrate substantial benefits starting in the second half of 2026. Within the next 2 to 3 years, they are anticipated to become a key driver in boosting the company's revenue share and profit growth