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Quocirca again names Ricoh a Print Security Leader for its “device-agnostic” managed security services

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TOKYO, Aug. 10, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Ricoh has once again been named a leader in the print security market, according to the latest Print Security Vendor Landscape 2026 report from Quocirca, a leading market research and insight firm, reflecting its sustained commitment to protecting customers as printers become a bigger target for cyberattacks.

As organisations continue to navigate the evolving challenge of hybrid work, growing AI-driven threats, and increasingly complex mixed print fleets, the need for robust print security has never been more critical. Quocirca’s research shows that two-thirds (67%) of organisations experienced at least one data loss due to a print-related security breach in the past year — up from 56% in 2025 — with the average cost of a print-related data breach now exceeding 1.3M USD.

According to the report, Ricoh’s managed services, platform-based fleet visibility, and broad partner ecosystem — which together secure mixed fleets from any manufacturer, not just its own devices — are central to how it helps customers close the gap between print infrastructure and enterprise-wide security strategy.

Operationalising Security Across Print

Ricoh’s recognition by Quocirca reflects its focus on treating print security as an ongoing operational discipline rather than a one-time configuration exercise.

“Print is still one of the most overlooked corners of enterprise security, so recognition like this matters — it reflects the work we do to help customers close that gap rather than treat print as an afterthought,” said Kei Uesugi, Managing Director, Ricoh Asia Pacific. “As the threat landscape shifts, our focus stays the same: giving organisations the visibility and control to keep their people both productive and protected.”

Key Strengths That Set Ricoh Apart

The Print Security Landscape 2026 report highlights several key strengths underpinning Ricoh’s leadership position:

Global, device-agnostic security support spanning approximately 200 countries and territories.Broader visibility and automation across diverse print fleets through Ricoh’s platform tools.Assurance that refurbished devices meet the same security standards as new products.Continued investment in workflow and AI-driven security, including the natif.ai acquisition and a roadmap for AI-enabled data loss prevention (DLP) within RICOH Streamline NX.

Strengthening Readiness for Emerging Risks

With AI-driven threats and the eventual arrival of quantum computing reshaping the risk landscape, Ricoh continues to develop its secure print portfolio to meet the diverse needs of its global customer base.

The report specifically highlights Ricoh’s RICOH Streamline NX and RICOH CloudStream print management solutions for their support of zero trust architecture, broad authentication options, and lifecycle hardening capabilities such as Automatic Remote Firmware Update and Always Current Technology.

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Quocirca Print Security Landscape 2026

About Ricoh

Ricoh is a global integrator in workplace transformation, operating in approximately 200 countries and regions and headquartered in Tokyo. Supporting customers’ value creation, Ricoh offers workplace services and solutions that empower organisations to work smarter through advanced technologies—including AI— together with long-standing expertise rooted in printing. Ricoh also operates commercial and industrial printing businesses and delivers new solutions leveraging inkjet technology. In the financial year ended March 2026, Ricoh Group had worldwide sales of 2,608 billion yen (approx. 16.4 billion USD).

For 90 years since our founding, Ricoh has upheld its mission and vision of empowering individuals to find Fulfilment through Work—and that commitment continues today. By understanding and transforming how people work, we unleash their potential and creativity to realise a sustainable future.

For further information, please visit www.ricoh.com

© 2026 RICOH ASIA PACIFIC PTE LTD. All rights reserved. All referenced product names are the trademarks of their respective companies.

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Sungrow Retains No.1 Position in 2025 S&P Global PV Inverter Shipments Rankings

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HEFEI, China, Aug. 9, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Sungrow, the global leading PV inverter and energy storage system (ESS) provider, has once again been named the No. 1 PV Inverter shipments by S&P Global 2025. This achievement reflects Sungrow’s continuous commitment to technological innovation, global expansion, and customer-centric services.

Driving Breakthroughs Via Technological Innovation

Sungrow has launched the world’s first PowerMatrix Inverter at SNEC 2026, introducing a new approach to inverter system architecture. This solution delivers enhanced efficiency, optimized costs, and improved system stability across diverse application scenarios. Sungrow has also achieved the world’s first field engineering validation of wide-frequency oscillation solutions, demonstrating its capability to address emerging challenges in modern power systems and support the integration of renewable energy at scale. These innovations revealed Sungrow’s strong R&D capability, with technical professionals accounting for approximately 40% of its workforce.

Expanding Global Presence with Localized Capabilities

Sungrow’s global footprint now spans more than 100 countries and regions, supported by 4 global manufacturing bases and the industry’s most extensive grid access capabilities. With more than 1 TW of accumulated global grid-connected experience, Sungrow leverages its advanced manufacturing capabilities and an agile global supply chain to continuously provide compliant, localized, and efficient solutions across diverse markets worldwide.

Delivering Lifecycle Support Through Professional Services

Beyond technology and products, Sungrow has established a global service network with more than 520 service locations, over 1,200 technical service engineers, and more than 400 authorized service partners. By combining advanced hardware, digital solutions, and localized service capabilities, this extensive ecosystem enables rapid response, localized support, and professional assistance from project deployment to long-term operation and maintenance.

With Sungrow’s cutting-edge inverter technologies, strengthening global manufacturing capabilities, and building a comprehensive customer service network worldwide, Sungrow will continue to support the construction of new-type power systems and bridge to a sustainable future.

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AP Memory Strengthens Global Leadership Team with Appointment of Former Qualcomm Vice President Jian Zhang

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HSINCHU, Aug. 9, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — AP Memory, a leading global design company providing customized memory solutions, today announced the appointment of Jian Zhang to its leadership team. Jian will apply her extensive global semiconductor experience to help strengthen AP Memory’s technology development, product engineering, operations management, and global customer collaboration, supporting the company’s next phase of growth and global expansion.

Jian has more than 30 years of global semiconductor industry experience, spanning process technology, product development, test engineering, yield improvement, foundry operations, and supply chain strategy. Prior to joining AP Memory, she served as Vice President of Product Development and Test Engineering at Qualcomm, where she led engineering teams across Taiwan, Singapore, and China. Her responsibilities included post-silicon validation, production test development, yield improvement, product quality enhancement, as well as customer failure analysis.

During her tenure at Qualcomm, Jian established the company’s Product Development and Test Engineering team in Taiwan, as well as its first advanced diagnostic laboratory. She also introduced artificial intelligence and machine learning technologies to improve engineering efficiency, test analytics, and system-level debugging capabilities.

Earlier in her career, Jian served as Vice President of Front-End Innovation and Foundry Operations at NXP Semiconductors, where she led global teams across Europe, the United States, and Asia. In this role, she oversaw semiconductor technology roadmaps, new technology and product introductions, foundry strategy, cost management, and capacity planning. The technologies under her leadership included CMOS/RFCMOS, high-voltage processes, non-volatile memory, and SiGe BiCMOS. Jian was also responsible for NXP’s global foundry strategy, managing both internal wafer fabs and external foundry partners based on technology capabilities, cost, and capacity.

“As AP Memory continues to grow its business and expand its global customer footprint, building a management team with a global perspective and strong execution capabilities is essential to the company’s next stage of development,” said Wen Chen, CEO and CTO of AP Memory. “Jian brings extensive experience in the global semiconductor industry. With her joining the company, we look forward to further strengthening our technology management, cross-regional collaboration, and organizational capabilities, while creating long-term value for our customers and shareholders.”

As artificial intelligence, high-performance computing, and edge applications continue to advance rapidly, market demand for greater memory performance, power efficiency, and system integration is also increasing. AP Memory stated that this senior-level appointment reflects the company’s long-term commitment to technology investment and organizational development. Looking ahead, AP Memory will continue to attract global talent, strengthen its core technology capabilities, and expand its global organization and customer collaboration network to capture emerging growth opportunities in the semiconductor market.

For more information, please visit: https://www.apmemory.com 

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Singdata Named Founding Data Partner in Synagie’s Geene 2.0, Takes On the Infrastructure Layer for Brands

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Singapore company says its Lakehouse runs analysis on a customer’s own connected data in place, so brand data teams can focus on the questions, not on building and running the systems underneath them

SINGAPORE, Aug. 10, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Singdata has become one of the founding ecosystem partners of Geene 2.0, a next-generation enterprise AI commerce ecosystem platform launched as a SaaS product by Synagie, the digital commerce and technology brand of Hong Kong-listed Synagistics Limited. Geene 2.0 has 12 founding partners in total, including Synagie itself, and is scheduled for commercial launch on Aug. 8, 2026. Alongside Singdata, the other partners are BytePlus, China Mobile International, FLY Entertainment, Mei Ah Entertainment, DataCloud, Yiwise, Zeneva, DU-MAS, International Brand Centre and Masverse.

Building a Trusted Data Ecosystem

Synagie defines Geene 2.0 as a “trusted AI commerce” ecosystem: rather than having enterprises cobble together a set of isolated AI tools, the platform splits the work across five layers — analysis, strategy, content, execution and trusted verification — each handled by a specialized partner. Within that ecosystem, Singdata takes on the data layer, handling three recurring, high-frequency tasks: automated generation of business-intelligence reports, financial process automation, and automated collection of market intelligence.

According to Co-founder and CEO Ethan Yu, operations staff no longer need to build fixed report templates in advance. A single question in natural language can surface sales trends or inventory changes, and repetitive work such as downloading reports and reconciling statements can be handed to AI as well.

“A brand’s operations team used to spend hours every day in spreadsheets pulling reports, reconciling numbers and tracking competitors. Now, about 90% of that repetitive work can go to AI,” Yu said. “Tell the system what you want to see — for example, how short-video exposure and offline sales tracked over the past three months — and the report is ready within minutes.”

Data boundaries are something Singdata keeps coming back to, and Yu’s way of putting it is plain: “Singdata builds the kitchen and the equipment in it, so customers can focus on the chef’s skill and the quality of the dish, not on building the stove,” he said. “A mature company’s data team is the chef. They already know how to cook. Our tools just help them cook better.”

Singdata said this division of labor is not just a promise but a design choice built into the architecture. Its Lakehouse, powered by its self-developed Generic Incremental Compute engine, runs analysis directly on a customer’s already-connected data, in place, without the customer needing to worry about how the underlying infrastructure is built. “Data intelligence is built on the customer’s own data,” Yu said. “Seeing the insight should never require the chef to design the kitchen or the stove.”

Infrastructure Is Its Own Craft — What Singdata Does Next

Singdata is a Singapore-headquartered AI-and-data infrastructure company, with customers across Asia-Pacific spanning the internet, automotive, logistics and education sectors. Its core technology pairs a self-developed Generic Incremental Compute engine with a lakehouse architecture. According to the company, enterprises trying to put AI to work typically hit one of two bottlenecks: whether their data is directly readable and usable by AI systems (AI-ready), and whether it can be processed and retrieved in real time. Generic Incremental Compute is built to address both, making multi-modal enterprise data AI-usable and able to support large language models in reasoning and decision-making.

At the product level, Singdata Lakehouse runs across seven cloud platforms, including AWS, Google Cloud, and Alibaba Cloud. The company is a core contributor to Apache Iceberg, the open table format for data lakes, and says the architecture keeps customers in full control of their own data. Southeast Asian e-commerce logistics provider Ninja Van used it to migrate off its legacy systems without disruption.

The rest of the Geene 2.0 ecosystem includes partners responsible for AI models, content production, livestreaming and blockchain verification, each covering a different layer. Singdata’s focus stays on the data layer: organizing and ingesting a brand’s scattered data is what the rest of the ecosystem depends on to function.

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