ASRock Industrial has partnered with Axelera AI to provide efficient, high-performance AI inference solutions tailored for edge computing applications. By integrating Axelera’s Metis AI Processing Unit (AIPU) cards into ASRock Industrial’s edge AI platforms, the collaboration delivers a compact and scalable solution capable of adding up to 214 TOPS of AI inference through M.2 or PCIe accelerator cards. Powered by the Metis AIPU, the platform offers strong AI performance with lower power consumption and reduced total cost of ownership compared to traditional GPU-based systems. The solution is designed for edge AI use cases such as large language models (LLMs), machine vision, robotics, smart retail, and smart city deployments, enabling organizations to process AI workloads closer to the data source while reducing infrastructure, energy, and space requirements.
Validated Edge AI Platforms Accelerate Deployment
These validated configurations provide customers with a scalable path to deploying advanced AI capabilities on compact edge systems. On ASRock Industrial’s expandable Edge AIoT platforms, including the iEPF-11000S, iEPF-10000S, iEPF-9500S, iEPF-9040S, and iEPF-9040VS series, the Axelera Metis PCIe card enables scalable, industrial-grade AI processing for demanding edge applications. For compact edge systems such as the AI BOX-A395, NUC BOX-358H, NUC BOX-255H, and NUC BOX-155H, the Axelera Metis M.2 card delivers high-performance AI inference in a compact, power-efficient form factor. Supporting multiple AI workloads running in parallel, these solutions enable real-time analysis for machine vision, robotics, retail and hospitality, warehouse automation, smart surveillance, and intelligent transportation.
“Organizations are looking for practical ways to scale AI beyond proof-of-concept projects,” said James Lee, Chairman of ASRock Industrial. “By combining Axelera AI Metis AIPU cards with ASRock Industrial’s edge computing platforms, we provide customers with greater flexibility to deploy AI where it delivers the most value. This collaboration expands the range of AI solutions available for industrial and enterprise environments while simplifying the path from development to deployment.”
“Advanced AI shouldn’t require oversized systems or power budgets most environments can’t support,” said Fabrizio Del Maffeo, CEO and Co-Founder of Axelera AI. “Our collaboration with ASRock Industrial pairs Axelera’s high-performance AIPUs with proven industrial computing platforms, giving customers a practical way to run demanding AI workloads within the constraints their systems must work within.”
As demand for edge AI continues to grow, ASRock Industrial and Axelera AI are committed to delivering solutions that make advanced AI more accessible across edge environments. By combining compact, high-performance AI acceleration with proven edge computing platforms, the collaboration enables organizations to deploy AI workloads more efficiently and unlock new opportunities for intelligent automation, machine vision, and real-time decision-making at the edge.
To simplify platform selection and accelerate AI deployment, ASRock Industrial continues expanding its AI Pathfinder tool with validated hardware recommendations, integrating accelerator cards, GPUs, and optimized platform configurations tailored for diverse AI workloads and deployment scenarios. Through AI Pathfinder, customers can more efficiently identify recommended Edge AI systems and accelerate deployment decisions with confidence.
