Advantech has announced a strategic partnership with Axelera AI to develop a new generation of Edge AI acceleration modules built around the Europa AIPU, as the Taiwan-based group moves to strengthen its position in low-power, high-performance computing at the network Edge.
The collaboration is intended to complement Advantech’s existing platforms that support Metis, and is aimed at sectors including industrial automation, robotics, smart cities, and medical imaging, where demand for real-time, power-efficient processing continues to rise.
Joey Hsu, Director of Advantech’s Embedded Sector, said the agreement marked “an important milestone” in the company’s AI acceleration roadmap. “By combining Axelera AI’s neural processing technology with Advantech’s system design expertise and global deployment capabilities, we are enabling customers to deploy cutting-edge AI solutions with greater speed, and greater scalability,” he said.
At the centre of the partnership is Advantech’s new EAI-3841 series, an Edge AI Acceleration Module incorporating the Europa AIPU. The module delivers up to 629 TOPS of performance and supports as much as 164GB of LPDDR5 memory. Featuring eight AI cores, integrated RAM per compute unit, and a built-in video decoder, it is designed for real-time analysis of complex models, including VLM and VITs, as well as multi-camera workloads common in robotic vision, intelligent surveillance, in-vehicle systems, and medical diagnostics.
Nicolas Silvestre, Director of Sales, APAC at Axelera AI, said the integration of Europa into Advantech’s platforms would give customers “unprecedented AI performance and efficiency”, enabling smarter and more sustainable edge applications.
Advantech has longstanding partnerships with major chipset providers including Intel, Qualcomm, NVIDIA, and Hailo, and offers tailored systems for vertical markets requiring object detection, dynamic robotics, and intelligent vision. The company said the new collaboration forms part of its effort to expand its portfolio of deployable, high-performance solutions for Edge AI.
