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Aetina & Qualcomm Collaborate on Flagship MegaEdge AIP-FR68 Edge AI Solution

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Aetina, a leading provider of edge AI solutions and a subsidiary of Innodisk Group, today announced a collaboration with Qualcomm Technologies, Inc., who unveiled a revolutionary Qualcomm AI On-Prem Appliance Solution and Qualcomm AI Inference Suite for On-Prem. This collaboration combines Qualcomm Technologies' cutting-edge inference accelerators and advanced software with Aetina's edge computing hardware to deliver unprecedented computing power and ready-to-use AI applications for enterprises and industrial organizations.

The flagship offering, the Aetina MegaEdge AIP-FR68, sets a new industry benchmark by integrating Qualcomm Cloud AI family of accelerator cards. Each Cloud AI 100 Ultra card delivers an impressive 870 TOPS of AI computing power at 8-bit integer (INT8) while maintaining remarkable energy efficiency at just 150 W power consumption. The system supports dual Cloud AI 100 Ultra cards in a single desktop workstation. This groundbreaking combination of power and efficiency in a compact form factor revolutionizes on-premises AI processing, making enterprise-grade computing more accessible than ever.




Richard Hung, Vice President at Aetina, emphasized the transformative potential: "Our collaboration with Qualcomm Technologies marks a significant breakthrough in edge AI deployment. By achieving the complex landscape in a desktop form factor, we're democratizing access to enterprise-grade AI capabilities. This solution enables businesses to run sophisticated AI models locally, ensuring data privacy while maintaining superior interoperability and cloud-level performance."

The collaboration introduces innovative applications in generative AI, particularly through Large Language Models (LLMs) with Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG). This advancement enables organizations to rapidly develop, test, and customize generative AI models on standard PC workstations, with seamless scalability to private or cloud data centers. This capability is particularly valuable for industries requiring secure, high-performance AI processing, such as healthcare, finance, retail and manufacturing. Additionally, the collaboration strengthens Aetina's role as a key AI innovator within the Innodisk Group, highlighting its expertise in global partnerships.



"We are excited to introduce novel and advanced on-prem AI inference appliance solutions with Aetina," said Rashid Attar, Senior Vice President of Engineering, Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. "These solutions address enterprise on-prem AI needs across a diverse set of sectors and combined with the AI Inference Suite enable a broad range of AI agents, applications, and use cases."



The Qualcomm AI On-Prem Appliance Solution combines state-of-the-art processors with comprehensive Qualcomm AI Inference Suite for On-Prem to offer a powerful, localized AI computing solution that operates efficiently within enterprise environments. The new bundle solution will be available through global distribution partners starting in Q1 2025, marking a significant milestone in making enterprise-grade AI accessible to organizations of all sizes.

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Is there no way to use this box to combine video cards instead for gaming? Or to use these cards for gaming?
 
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Is there no way to use this box to combine video cards instead for gaming? Or to use these cards for gaming?
Apples and oranges......just not the same thing. Nothing about this is for gaming.
 
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So much more than would be worth it in money and effort. Could build an insane gaming rig for way less.

I mean, to really do what it would take wouldn't be too hard. Specs claim windows support (although this is way more of a linux rig), and it is an embedded intel core i5/i7/i9 12 or 13. The Qualcomm cards are probably a no go for gaming....they seem purpose built. It can also be purchased with nvidia gpus, so support for gpu's shouldn't be a problem. 600w max power consumption, so i assume it has a power supply that can handle something around that. I think cooling would be an issue, and would require lots of upgrades. Got screenshots of this bios/uefi in the user manual, and it doesn't look too tweakable. Multi-gpu/SLi for gaming is kinda not a thing right now, so that feature isn't helping any. Pricing is by request only, so not cheap. It could be done, but i don't think what it would amount to would be worth it. Kinda like trying to make a gaming rig out of a NAS.

I'm not trying to hate on it. It's a really cool piece of gear, but it's purpose built for a specific set of tasks. I don't think it would excel at gaming.

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Also.....this is one of the better manuals i have read lately. Very nice.
 
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So much more than would be worth it in money and effort. Could build an insane gaming rig for way less.

I mean, to really do what it would take wouldn't be too hard. Specs claim windows support (although this is way more of a linux rig), and it is an embedded intel core i5/i7/i9 12 or 13. The Qualcomm cards are probably a no go for gaming....they seem purpose built. It can also be purchased with nvidia gpus, so support for gpu's shouldn't be a problem. 600w max power consumption, so i assume it has a power supply that can handle something around that. I think cooling would be an issue, and would require lots of upgrades. Got screenshots of this bios/uefi in the user manual, and it doesn't look too tweakable. Multi-gpu/SLi for gaming is kinda not a thing right now, so that feature isn't helping any. Pricing is by request only, so not cheap. It could be done, but i don't think what it would amount to would be worth it. Kinda like trying to make a gaming rig out of a NAS.

I'm not trying to hate on it. It's a really cool piece of gear, but it's purpose built for a specific set of tasks. I don't think it would excel at gaming.

AIP-FR68-A1

Also.....this is one of the better manuals i have read lately. Very nice.
Thanks for the manual, I realize it's just a simple computer box with a mobo. I thought it was an external computing device that you hook up to a main computer to use for additional power on specific tasks. I've always wondered how to bypass the dawn of SLI solutions to use multi GPUs for gaming.
 
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These are the gpu's offered from Aetina. Interesting.........I'd be curious to know what the industrial 4070 ti super is.
 
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