“Edge AI systems that can see, hear, understand, and respond to their surrounding environment in real-time without having to rely on connections to the cloud provide the key to boosting innovation and creating engaging new customer services and experiences in industries as diverse as transportation, retail, entertainment, and medical,” commented Epan Wu, General Manager of the VIA Embedded Division. “With their scalable, high-performance designs, VIA Edge AI Systems will unlock the unlimited potential of artificial intelligence for transforming the world we live in.”

VIA Edge AI systems are powered by best-of-breed SoC platforms, including the Qualcomm Snapdragon 820E Embedded Platform and NVIDIA Jetson TX2 module, and deliver the optimum blend of compute, graphics, and connectivity for the target AI application scenarios. System functionality and performance can be further optimized with the integration of VIA Smart Facial Recognition, VIA Mobile 360 ADAS, and VIA Mobile360 Surround View Computer Vision technology platforms that enable a diverse array of intelligent video AI applications.

“The VIA Neural Network Inferencing Engine promises to provide the most powerful solution for accelerating deep learning inference applications like image recognition, speech recognition, and natural language processing,” concluded Wu. “With its unmatched performance, it will drive the emergence of new generation of Edge AI devices that will inspire a wave innovative new applications and services that will transform the world we live in.”