Intel and its subsidiary Altera today announced new edge-optimised processors, FPGAs and programmable market-ready solutions extending powerful AI capabilities into edge computing.
These products will power AI-enabled edge devices applicable to industries across retail, healthcare, industrial, automotive, defense and aerospace.
“This next generation of Intel edge-optimised processors and discrete GPUs unleashes powerful AI capabilities to help businesses more seamlessly incorporate AI alongside compute, media and graphics workloads. From manufacturing to healthcare, Intel’s extensive edge AI experience and breadth and depth of edge-ready silicon and software help our customers deliver AI where they need it most for better business outcomes.” said Dan Rodriguez, Intel corporate vice president and general manager of Network and Edge Solutions Group.
Why It Matters for Edge and AI
Intel’s new series of edge-optimized Intel Core Ultra, Intel Core and Intel Atom processors and discrete Intel Arc graphics processing units (GPUs) will advance innovation for artificial intelligence, visual computing and media processing – in support of faster and smarter decisions with on-premise edge computing. Agilex 5 FPGAs for mid-range applications with best-in-class performance per watt target a broad set of applications, including video, industrial, robotics, medical and others. Agilex 5 FPGAs with AI infused into the fabric offer a high level of integration, low latency and improved computing capabilities for intelligent edge applications.
Expanding on Intel’s commitment to bringing AI everywhere, today’s announcements utilise built-in AI acceleration in the new series of processors to power the next generation of edge devices.
How Intel Expands AI to Embedded Edge Devices
Building on its expansive installed base of more than 90,000 edge deployments, Intel delivers a wave of edge-optimised processors and GPUs to power the next generation of AI-enabled edge devices.
Why It Matters for Altera FPGAs
In an era where technological advancements are integral to staying competitive, Intel’s new edge-optimised processors and solutions deliver the capabilities enterprises need to innovate, be efficient and improve time to market. Altera delivers flexibility and re-programmability to accelerate innovators by providing easy-to-design and easy-to-deploy leadership programmable solutions.
These processors, FPGAs and associated solutions allow enterprises to leverage the tremendous amount of data generated at the edge to deploy sophisticated embedded AI devices across a variety of industries to streamline operations, improve customer satisfaction and incorporate advanced visual workloads.
“The FPGA AI Suite from Altera allowed the Tiami team to rapidly incorporate our IP into an intricate digital signal processing (DSP) pipeline,” said Amitav Mukherjee, CEO at Tiami Networks.
“This significantly reduced the time required to integrate AI capabilities with 5G signal processing from an estimated six months to just eight weeks. Our engineering team clearly recognised the value proposition offered by the FPGA in preprocessing wireless signals received from the antenna and performing real-time inference, resulting in a successful demo.”
