Taiwanese AIoT firm Advantech worked with Intel to power a range of scalable edge AI products.

The company has integrated Intel Core Ultra Series 3 processors, built on Intel 18A, into its upcoming portfolio of industrial-grade motherboards and edge AI computers. This strengthens the long-standing collaboration between Advantech and Intel, delivering AI performance and enabling intelligent edge products.

Featuring integrated AI acceleration with up to 180 platform Tops, the Core Ultra Series 3 processors allow users to run workloads, including real-time defect inspection, predictive maintenance and intelligent monitoring, directly from the edge. This enables faster decision-making while reducing cloud traffic, lowering data-transfer expenses and reducing costs.

“Advantech is committed to delivering edge-ready AI that simplifies deployment and maximises lifecycle value,” said Miller Chang, president of Advantech’s embedded group. “By integrating Intel Core Ultra Series 3 processors with our edge AI computers, we are enabling customers to scale AI faster, more reliably and with significantly lower cost barriers.”

With built-in Intel Arc GPUs with up to 12 Xe cores, the Ultra Series 3 processors deliver up to 50% faster graphics performance than previous generations. This allows demanding AI and vision workloads, such as 3D inspection, AOI deep learning and high-resolution HMI rendering, to run on a single SoC, eliminating the need for external GPUs and reducing integration complexity.

Paired with Advantech’s edge AI SDK, featuring GenAI Studio for custom LLM development, the inference kit for embedded AI optimisation,and the orchestration platform for fleet-wide updates, users can deploy developer-friendly systems quickly. Advantech products include the MIO-5381 and AIMB-234 motherboards, which leverage integrated GPU and NPU for real-time AI inference on endoscopic video streams, as well as the SOM-5886 module and Ark-2252 edge computer, offering scalable AI for intelligent automation in critical environments.

“The combination of Intel Core Ultra Series 3 processors with integrated AI and Advantech’s industrial expertise brings breakthrough AI performance at the edge,” said Dan Rodriguez, corporate vice president at Intel (www.intel.com). “This means our customers can deploy AI systems that are smarter, more efficient with greater confidence, and achieve the total cost of ownership they are looking for.”

With more than 9000 employees worldwide and a 40-year track record, Advantech (www.advantech.com) specialises in products, systems and services for embedded AIoT.