Leading provider of advanced industrial and embedded AI computing platforms AAEON, has confirmed that it has signed a three-year Mass Production Cooperation MOU with South Korean AI semiconductor company DEEPX Inc. The ceremony, which took place at the DEEPX exhibition booth in Hall 1 of the Taipei Nangang Exhibition Center during the opening day of COMPUTEX TAIPEI, saw both AAEON CEO Howard Lin and DEEPX CEO Lokwon Kim in attendance,
The relationship between the two companies can be traced back a number of years, with a particular highlight being a December 2025 collaboration that saw multiple models from AAEON’s UP Development Kit and Mini PC series leverage DEEPX’s innovative DX-M1 AI chip, addressing market demand for ultra-low power, compact, and AI-ready edge platforms. Following sustained collaboration and extensive project validation, the two companies have now formalized their relationship through the signing of an MOU.
Under the agreement, the two companies will pursue a three-year cooperation to integrate DEEPX’s AI semiconductors (NPU) across key AAEON product lines, including industrial PCs, single-board computers, and edge platforms.
By pairing DEEPX’s innovative AI technology with AAEON’s extensive expertise in industrial computing, the companies have optimized both the hardware design and thermal architecture needed to maximize the performance of DEEPX AI chips. As a result, they state they will be better equipped to provide customers with practical, competitive platforms that are easy to integrate, deploy, and scale across a wide range of edge AI applications.
“Although DEEPX is one of our newer strategic partners, our collaboration has been exceptionally active and productive, driven by a deep alignment in addressing customer requirements for compact, low-power, and robust AI systems.,” said Howard Lin, CEO of AAEON. “By integrating AAEON’s global hardware platforms with DEEPX’s advanced semiconductor technology, we are well-positioned to deliver reliable, transformative edge AI solutions with long-term product availability across smart factories, healthcare, smart cities, and a wide range of industrial applications.”
At COMPUTEX 2026, AAEON will showcase edge AI solutions jointly developed with DEEPX and powered by DEEPX DX-series AI accelerators. These solutions will illustrate how customers can deploy AI inference directly at the edge for applications across machine vision, defect inspection, object detection, robotics, and automation.
