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        The partnership will focus on developing advanced edge AI platforms and a dedicated SDK for AI applications to help navigate the fragmentation in the IoT industry and ensure interoperability with AI. Potential areas of benefit include industrial automation, transportation, medical fields, and emerging sectors such as robotics and energy.
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 <p>Embedded computing solution provider, Advantech, is partnering with fabless semiconductor provider, Qualcomm Technologies. Their combined expertise in AI will drive innovation in industrial computing.</p>
 <p>This partnership aims to develop advanced edge AI platforms and a dedicated SDK for AI applications. This move is intended to manage fragmentation in the IoT industry and promote interoperability with AI. The areas that stand to benefit from this partnership are industrial automation, transportation, medical fields, and emerging sectors like robotics and energy.</p>
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Advantech partners with Qualcomm to boost edge AI applications and industrial computing

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 <p>Akamai Technologies, a leading cloud services provider, has launched a media-centric new service that integrates NVIDIA GPUs with its global edge platform. The key goal of this latest cloud-based service is to enhance productivity whilst reducing expenses for businesses in the media and entertainment sector.</p>
 <p>The central attribute of this service is its utilization of GPU-based encoding. This makes use of the NVIDIA RTX 4000, which provides a substantial uptick in frames per second in comparison to traditional CPU-based techniques. The service aids organizations in developing scalable, reliable, and portable workflows, promising faster speeds, increased reliability, and enhanced portability.</p>
 <p>Additionally, the service ensures low latency and reliable compute resources, while preserving the portability of workloads. It supports a broad array of workloads, spanning video transcoding, VR, AR, AI, gaming, and scientific computing, thus demonstrating its adaptability and wide-ranging relevance.</p>
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Akamai Technologies launches media-focused service with NVIDIA GPUs

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 <p>Vertiv, a leader in digital infrastructure, has introduced SmartRow2, an edge data center solution offering enhanced scalability and flexibility. It promises to cut down deployment time by 80% and reduce costs by 30% compared to traditional methods.</p>
 <p>The solution can house up to five IT racks with power capacities between 3.3 kW to 6.6 kW. Feature options include 2N power and cooling redundancy, offering greater fault tolerance and reducing the risk of surprise downtimes.</p>
 <p>SmartRow2 also claims to enable infrastructure setup within a week, compared to up to a year with conventional methods. In addition to its speed and cost-effectiveness, the system also focuses on sustainability, incorporating effective in-row cooling methods that can lower cooling energy use and CO2 emissions by roughly 20% on average.</p>
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Vertiv unveils SmartRow 2 Edge data center solution for accelerated deployments

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 <p>Advantech, an embedded computing solutions provider, has collaborated with Phison, known for its flash controller and storage solutions. They are working to develop a GenAI platform, aiming at Edge computing and industrial applications.</p>
 <p>The partnership entails integrating Phison's aiDAPTIV+ technology within Advantech's Edge AI platforms. The goal is to streamline AI training processes and to decrease the demand for costly GPU and VRAM resources.</p>
 <p>The collaboration is anticipated to contribute to advancements in industry 4.0 and 5.0. It looks forward to enhancing automation and data exchange within manufacturing technologies. This is predicted to benefit sectors such as manufacturing, healthcare, and infrastructure. The benefits include predictive maintenance, automated decision-making, and improved customer interactions.</p>
 
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Advantech partners with Phison to develop GenAI solutions for the edge

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 <p>Scale Computing, a provider of Edge computing solutions, is partnering with Reskube, a power and internet solutions provider, to enhance resilience in edge computing systems. The partnership intends to utilise Scale Computing’s infrastructure and Reskube’s resilience solutions for developing Edge systems with fewer disruptions. The goal is to provide consistent visibility and control over distributed resources, streamline deployment and management, and improve service providers' capacity to fulfill service-level agreements.</p>
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Scale Computing partners with Reskube for robust edge computing deployments

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 <p>DataBank, an edge colocation and managed cloud services provider, has secured a USD 725 million credit facility. This funding, led by TD Securities, included 14 digital infrastructure banks. DataBank plans to use the funding to expedite construction projects across U.S. cities and expand data center infrastructure. The credit facility provides a flexible structure, enabling DataBank to draw funds on demand and reduce interest payments.</p>
</div> <p><b>Analyst QuickTake:<br>
 </b> In February 2024, DataBank issued secured notes worth <a href="https:<br>
//www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/databank-raises-456-million-in-fourth-securitization-of-the-past-three-years-302063244.html"> USD 456 million </a> to refinance the bridge loan taken to <a href="https:<br>
//sp-edge.com/updates/7919?industryIds=33"> purchase </a> data centers from CyrusOne. In April 2024, it <a href="https:<br>
//sp-edge.com/updates/28100"> acquired </a> the LAS1 Edge data center in Las Vegas, Nevada, increasing its data center count to 69. Further, in 2023, the company expanded the floor area of seven data centers in various locations and acquired facilities in Virginia and Atlanta to significantly increase its footprint.</p>

DataBank raises USD 725 million in debt financing to expand data center infrastructure in US

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 <p>Software company, Qt Group, is partnering with Qualcomm, a semiconductor manufacturing firm, to speed up the development of graphical user interfaces (GUIs) and software quality assurance for industrial IoT devices. The partnership will combine Qualcomm's processors with Qt's development tools, enabling IoT manufacturers to reach the market faster, and software vendors to create and test user interface solutions more efficiently. The collaboration will also support hardware vendors in producing smaller, faster, embedded electronic devices.</p>
 <p>Using Qualcomm's processors that support Qt, original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) can benefit from Qt's software development and quality assurance tools, reducing barriers to production. The partnership also aims to provide improved 3D graphics capabilities for IoT device interfaces, fostering better coordination between developers and designers.</p>
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Qt Group partners with Qualcomm to streamline development for industrial IoT devices

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 <p>AMD has introduced new additions to its Versal™ adaptive system on chip (SoC) portfolio, the Versal AI Edge Series Gen 2 and Versal Prime Series Gen 2 adaptive SoCs. These offerings are designed to boost AI-fuelled embedded systems.</p>
 <p>The Versal AI Edge Series purports to facilitate an optimal blend of preprocessing, AI inference, and postprocessing. While conversely, the Versal Prime Series integrates programmable logic for sensor and high-performance Arm CPUs to deliver acceleration for conventional systems that don't rely on AI.</p>
 <p>AMD states that these latest generation Versal devices can satisfy the requirements for single-chip AI applications within the power and area restrictions of embedded systems. This innovation allows AMD to provide edge-optimized products suitable for sectors like automotive, aerospace, defense, industrial, and healthcare.</p>
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AMD expands Versal adaptive SoC portfolio with AI Edge Series Gen 2 and Prime Series Gen 2

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 <p>Fastly, an edge cloud platform, has rolled out a new tool, "Fastly Bot Management". This bot protection tool aids companies in safeguarding against automated bot attacks such as fraud, distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks, and account takeovers at the network edge.</p>
 <p>The tool amalgamates Fastly's knowledge of bot mitigation and the capabilities of its Next-Gen Web Application Firewall, providing protection for websites, applications, and sensitive data against harmful automated traffic. Key features of Fastly Bot Management incorporate the classification of both non-malicious and malicious bots at the network edge and the implementation of diverse mitigation strategies on both the server and client side.</p>
 
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Fastly launches bot management solution to combat automated attacks

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 <p>Intel Corp. and its subsidiary, Altera, have launched a series of chips and FPGAs targeted at enhancing AI capabilities at the network Edge. The new offerings include Edge-optimized CPUs and GPUs and the Agilex 5 Series FPGAs.</p>
 <p>The portfolio includes the Core Ultra processors, integrating Intel’s Arc GPU with a neural processing unit for superior performance on graphic intensive tasks. Moreover, Intel has launched Core processors for edge workloads, two new AI-boosting Atom processors, and Arc GPU for Edge. According to Intel, these chips offer improved AI acceleration leading to enhanced performance at the edge.</p>
 <p>Altera's Agilex 5 SoC FPGAs support AI capabilities without the requirement of dedicated AI accelerators and claim to deliver twice the performance of their predecessors. In addition, they offer customization capabilities and can be programmed using Altera’s Quartus Prime software, FPGA AI Suite, and the Intel OpenVINO toolkit.</p>
 
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