ASRock Industrial, announced a strategic collaboration with Axelera AI to deliver high-performance, power-efficient, and cost-effective AI inference solutions for edge computing. The collaboration integrates Axelera Metis AIPU cards into ASRock Industrial’s edge AI platforms, delivering a compact, scalable AI inference solution optimized for real-world edge environments. The solution enables parallel AI processing by extending the system’s native AI computing capabilities with up to 214 TOPS of additional inference through the Metis M.2 or PCIe AI acceleration cards. Powered by Metis AIPU, it delivers superior performance while significantly lowering power consumption and total cost of ownership (TCO) compared with conventional GPU-based architectures. Designed for edge AI applications including LLM, machine vision inspection, robotics, smart retail and city environments, the solution enables organizations to deploy advanced AI workloads where data is generated while minimizing the system footprint, power requirements, and infrastructure costs.
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.
