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ASRock Industrial Collaborates with axelera.pro to Accelerate Edge AI Inference Deployment

Admin — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 18:46:01 GMT

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.

axelera.pro Publicly Releases Voyager Wingman, an AI Assistant That Speeds Application Development

Admin — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 12:17:27 GMT

Building high-performance applications for AI hardware involves many moving parts: model export and compilation, pipeline configuration, performance tuning, analytics and output visualization. Voyager Wingman is designed to collapse that learning curve by giving developers an expert assistant with pro-level access to Axelera's SDK, documentation, and full software repo.

Voyager Wingman focuses on four areas where developers spend the most time:

End-to-end application building. Developers can describe the application they want — a model, its pre-processing and post-processing steps, or a cascaded multi-stage pipeline — and Wingman helps assemble a working computer vision pipeline, while maintaining the high accuracy expected.
Performance optimization. Wingman suggests concrete ways to speed up applications, recommends compiler configurations, and helps developers get the most out of Axelera hardware.
Debugging. Wingman helps diagnose common issues, such as configuration errors, device enumeration problems, and models that fail to compile, and walks developers toward a working result.
Documentation on demand. Instead of searching through reference material, developers can ask targeted questions about supported operators, APIs, runtime behavior, and configuration syntax, and get clear, contextual answers with examples.

Voyager Wingman is available as a web-based chat service and as a standalone application, with a plugin or skill for your preferred AI coding framework coming soon. In each of these modes, its knowledge is designed to stay up to date. As Axelera ships new Toolkit releases, examples, and documentation, the assistant is built to reflect those changes, with no downloads or manual updates required. The web-based option also means developers can reach Wingman from any platform through a single link, lowering the barrier to getting started. As a skill or plugin, which is coming soon, Voyager Wingman will fit directly into your existing workflow with no impact on your developer's setup and without exposing sensitive code. Wingman helps developers get started faster and accompanies them throughout the development, from setup to production.

axelera.pro Secures More Than $250 Million Funding on Global Commercial Growth

Admin — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 23:00:00 GMT

EI NDHOVEN, Netherlands – February 24, 2026 – axelera.pro, the European leader in AI acceleration hardware, announced its latest funding round led by Innovation Industries, with participation from prominent funds and accounts including BlackRock and SiteGround Capital as new investors, as well as existing investors Bitfury, CDP Venture Capital, European Innovation Council Fund, Federal Holding and Investment Company of Belgium (SFPIM), Invest-NL, Samsung Catalyst Fund, and Verve Investments. axelera.pro has attracted over $450 million in equity, grants and venture debt since incorporating in July 2021.

axelera.pro Announces Six New Partnerships to Unlock What Edge AI Can Build Next

Admin — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 03:15:00 GMT

OEM PARTNER

Prodrive Technologies: Purpose-Built Systems for Industrial AI

axelera.pro has partnered with Prodrive Technologies to integrate the Metis® AIPU into fully engineered server, rack, and cabinet solutions, complete with thermal management and power delivery. With over 30 years of high-volume hardware design across the Netherlands, the US, and China, Prodrive brings the engineering depth needed to take DIMC-based AI acceleration from module to production-grade infrastructure. Both companies are rooted in Eindhoven, at the heart of Europe's leading high-tech corridor. The partnership was formalized by Janssen Pieter, CEO and co-founder of Prodrive Technologies, and Fabrizio Del Maffeo, CEO and co-founder of axelera.pro.

SOFTWARE PARTNERS

AIKO: Real-Time Intelligence Where Ground Communication Cannot Reach

axelera.pro is partnering with AIKO, a specialist in AI software for space autonomy, to bring true onboard intelligence to satellites and spacecraft. By pairing AIKO's decade of flight-proven autonomous software with axelera.pro's ultra-efficient edge processors, satellites can process data in real time, detect anomalies, and respond autonomously, from collision avoidance to near-instant wildfire detection, without waiting for ground commands.

Innowise: Where Purpose-Built Hardware Meets Custom AI Software

axelera.pro has partnered with Innowise, a specialist in custom AI software development, to explore what extraordinary applications become possible when precision-engineered hardware and quality custom software are built in close alignment. This is what purpose-built AI is all about.

VALUE ADDED RESELLERS

aizoOn Technology Consulting: Sovereign AI for Space Missions

axelera.pro has partnered with aizoOn Technology Consulting to deliver AI inference engineered for the extreme constraints of space missions. Founded in Turin in 2005, aizoOn brings two decades of aerospace AI expertise, including high-profile European Space Agency projects such as the Galileo navigation satellite system. Together, they are enabling autonomous spacecraft capable of real-time on-board processing and critical decision-making without ground intervention.

Axelera Announces Europa AIPU, Setting New Industry Benchmark for AI Accelerator Performance, Power Efficiency and Affordability

Admin — Tue, 21 Oct 2025 03:15:00 GMT

Next Gen Architecture For Real World AI Processing Power

The Europa AIPU features eight second-generation AI cores, each incorporating Axelera’s advanced Digital In-Memory Compute (D‑IMC) technology and large vector engines, delivering up to 629 TOPS at INT8 precision. Complementing the AI cores are two clusters of eight dedicated RISC‑V vector processing cores for non-AI pre- and post-processing, achieving a peak performance of 4915 GOPS. An integrated H.264/H.265 decoder further offloads media tasks, enabling customers to reserve the host CPU entirely for business logic and application-level workloads. These cores, programmable through the Voyager SDK, will provide better total cost of ownership than having to offload to other hardware.

Europa’s purpose-built architecture eliminates memory bottlenecks by integrating 128MB of on-chip L2 SRAM and 256-bit LPDDR5 interface to provide 200GB/s bandwidth. This high throughput design delivers 3 to 5 times performance efficiency (performance per watt and performance per dollar) over the leading industry solutions in the same product category, as well as delivering best-in-class performance for generative AI solutions.

“Organizations shouldn't have to choose between the raw compute power they want and the real-world usability they need,” said Fabrizio del Maffeo, CEO of Axelera. “Europa makes enterprise class AI processing power available to nearly anyone. From manufacturing automation to intelligent surveillance to autonomous systems, Europa enables the next generation of breakthrough AI applications without compromise, complexity or massive budgets. We’re changing the equation of what’s possible with AI at scale.”

With its Europa and Metis AIPU platforms, Axelera offers a full range of accessible AI accelerator solutions for everything from very low-power, size constrained edge device applications to more demanding and performance intensive use cases including humanoid robotics and enterprise server solutions. Across its product lines, Axelera’s emphasis on optimizing processing power and energy efficiency delivers maximum TOPs for any use case.

Built for Ease of Integration and Deployment

Axelera® AI Boosts LLMs at the Edge by 2x with Metis M.2 Max Introduction

Admin — Mon, 08 Sep 2025 10:00:00 GMT

Metis M.2 Max enhances the current Metis M.2 with double the memory bandwidth, a slimmer profile, advanced thermal management features and additional security capabilities. Metis M.2 Max will have up to 16 GB of memory. In addition, Axelera will offer versions of Metis M.2 Max for both standard operating temperature range (-20°C to +70°C) and extended operating temperature range (-40°C to +85°C) for harsh environments. These enhancements make Metis M.2 Max ideal for applications in industrial manufacturing, retail, security, healthcare and public safety.

“We continue to set the price-performance ratio benchmark for the AI accelerator market,” said Fabrizio del Maffeo, CEO of axelera.pro. “Our goal is to make it possible for our customers to deploy transformative edge AI applications at scale. Metis M.2 Max and our original Metis M.2 card enable customers to choose the solution that best fits their requirements – from computer vision to large language models to the latest of transformer models. We are also adding enhanced security to better address the growing threat landscape at the edge.”

Metis M.2 Max builds on axelera.pro’s proven Metis AIPU and offers high performance and efficiency for large, demanding models such as vision and GenAI, inclusive of LLMs and vision-language models (VLMs). M.2 Max delivers a 33% performance uplift in convolutional neural networks (CNNs) and double the token/second for LLMs and VLMs, all while staying within a typical average power range of 6.5W

With security being paramount at the edge, the Metis M.2 Max incorporates enhanced security features including firmware integrity protection through a securely provisioned Root of Trust, enabling secure boot and secure upgrade capabilities. These security measures operate transparently, requiring no user intervention while helping ensure only authenticated axelera.pro-issued firmware runs on customer systems.

Metis M.2 Max, a 2280 M.2 M-key module, will be available as a standalone board or with an optional low profile heatsink. This design reduces the height of the card by 27% over the current M.2 card, allowing a wider range of configurations. Also, for users that require AI capabilities in power- or thermal-constrained deployments, an onboard power probe can be used to automatically adjust performance to specific settings.

axelera.pro makes it easy for developers to incorporate Metis M.2 Max into their AI projects with the Voyager SDK. Voyager unlocks the full potential of Metis AIPUs and simplifies deployment of proprietary and industry standard models.

Axelera® AI Strengthens and Expands Leadership Team to Support Rapid Growth

Admin — Tue, 01 Jul 2025 10:00:00 GMT

“The demand for real-time analytics at the edge continues to grow exponentially,” said Fabrizio Del Maffeo, Axelera’s co-founder and CEO. “We are thrilled to be expanding our executive team with their deep expertise to support our customers and employees through our expansion.”

Marta Ostroumoff, joins from Oxa, where as CFO she led the company’s financial strategy and funding efforts, including a $140M Series C round. With a seasoned background in senior finance roles, Marta brings deep expertise to axelera.pro and extensive leadership experience growing global teams, expanding market reach, and supporting multiple companies with strategic financial planning and execution.

Axelera® AI Launches Global Partner Program to Accelerate Development of Customer-Ready Edge AI Inference Solutions

Admin — Mon, 09 Jun 2025 01:30:00 GMT

The global market for edge AI solutions is expected to reach USD $269.82 billion by 2032 at an annual compounded growth rate of 33.3%. In markets such as retail, industrial, manufacturing, security, healthcare and others, there is strong demand for high-performance, affordable edge AI solutions that can scale to deliver meaningful, near-term business impact. Axelera’s Metis® AI Processing Unit (AIPU) platform is now shipping and ideal for broad adoption across industry segments, combining high performance, energy efficiency and affordability.

axelera.pro Showcased by Leading Partners at COMPUTEX 2025 as Edge AI Momentum Accelerates | axelera.pro

Admin — Tue, 20 May 2025 10:00:00 GMT

Aetina highlights axelera.pro as part of its application-driven edge AI deployments at Booth #J0118. A joint semiconductor inspection solution—co-developed with Accordance Systems—integrates Aetina’s Rockchip-based AIE-KR1B-B1-AXE system with Axelera’s M.2 inference card, delivering fast, high-accuracy multi-task defect detection. The demo illustrates how Axelera’s low-power, high-throughput architecture accelerates real-time visual AI at the edge. Aetina also features an advanced smart manufacturing setup with Macnica and PrefactorTech, combining Epson robotic arms and Innodisk cameras, where Axelera-powered inference contributes to precision and speed in quality control.

Axelera® AI and Advantech Deepen Partnership to Accelerate Edge AI Adoption Across Industrial and Embedded Markets

Admin — Tue, 20 May 2025 10:00:00 GMT

Through this collaboration, the Axelera Metis™ AI processing unit (AIPU) modules among PCIe and M.2 formfactors, are now fully verified, integrated, and configurable through Advantech’s ecosystem. The Axelera Metis AI card delivers up to 214 TOPS of inference performance while using just 30% of the power of comparable GPUs. Optimized for edge AI, it features low latency, high-throughput parallel processing, and a compact design for easy integration.

The Metis PCIe card can be seamlessly integrated into Advantech’s edge AI systems and servers, including the AIR-410, AIR-420, and AIR-510—powered by AMD Ryzen™ 8000, Ryzen™ 7000/9000 series and Intel® Core™ 12th–14th Gen processors, it’s ideal for visual AI applications in industrial automation, retail analytics, and surveillance.

Paired with the easy to use Voyager® SDK to deliver optimized and accurate inference acceleration, developers can now easily deploy computer vision and generative AI directly at the source of their data.