Announced at MWC 2024, Edge Platform is designed to help enterprises develop and deploy edge and AI applications, including defect detection and preventative maintenance.
At the event formerly known as the Mobile World Congress (now MWC Barcelona 2024), Intel announced a new software platform designed for edge and artificial intelligence (AI) applications.
“The edge is the next frontier of digital transformation, being further fueled by AI,” said Pallavi Mahajan, Intel VP and general manager of network and edge group software, at the announcement. “We are building on our strong customer base in the market and consolidating our years of software initiatives to the next level in delivering a complete edge-native platform, which is needed to enable infrastructure, applications and efficient AI deployments at scale.
“Our modular platform is exactly that, driving optimal edge infrastructure performance and streamlining application management for enterprises, giving them both improved competitiveness and improved total cost of ownership.”
Exactly how the concurrent rises of AI and edge computing will play out – not to mention how the two technologies should connect, if at all – remains an open question. Intel clearly recognizes the challenges of deploying AI at the edge, including diversity in hardware and software and the difficulty of feeding AI the amount of data it needs to operate at the edge while maintaining low latency.
Intel sees its Edge Platform as resolving these issues by providing enterprise customers with the option to purchase complete packages or build their own in existing Intel environments. According to the company, enterprise developers can build edge-native AI applications on new or existing infrastructure as well as manage edge solutions end-to-end for their specific use cases.
At the core of the platform’s infrastructure is Intel’s OpenVINO AI inference runtime, which helps developers optimize their applications for low latency and low power deployment at the edge on existing hardware.
Customers on Intel’s Edge Platform include Lenovo, SAP and Wipro.
