The emergence of Generative AI (GenAI) has led to the widespread
use of AI assistants across various sectors including business
environments, education, healthcare, legal and accounting fields,
banking, and even migration into embedded and industrial
environments. Numerous new GenAI applications are gradually
emerging. Recognizing this trend, Advantech (2395TT), a global
leader in edge computing, announced today a collaboration with
Phison (8299TT), a leading provider of NAND controllers and NAND
storage solutions, to jointly produce GenAI computing platforms
tailored for edge and industrial applications.
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Phison and Advantech develop GenAI
computing platform for edge and industrial applications (Graphic:
Phison)
Leveraging Phison's exclusive patented aiDAPTIV+ technology and
seamlessly integrating it with Advantech's Edge AI Solutions, our
innovative GenAI computing platform empowers customers in the edge
and industrial sectors to construct secure, reliable, and
cost-effective computing devices for refining GenAI models.
Advantech and Phison are accelerating the transition toward
Industry 4.0 and anticipate the advent of Industry 5.0 where
human-machine interaction will take center stage.
Advantech’s Edge AI Solutions and Phison’s aiDAPTIV+ amplifies
AI LLM capabilities, enabling the execution of advanced AI training
models with limitless computational capacity. The Edge AI Solutions
offer a comprehensive AI deployment package, enabling company-wide
AI training with robust design, and unparalleled computing power
for AI LLM training, unlocking boundless business opportunities.
Moreover, our innovative partnership provides both hardware and
software services, bolstering their adaptability through
collaboration with Advantech's Edge AI software solutions,
including NVIDIA AI Enterprise (NVAIE), Edge AI SDK, and DeviceOn.
This ecosystem encompasses pre-trained models, development
platforms, tools, and services, significantly streamlining the
accessibility of AI applications.
“Our collaboration with Phison is poised to lower barriers to
entry in the AI sector, fostering greater accessibility to local AI
computing and training,” stated Miller Chang, President of
Advantech Embedded-IoT Group. “The innovative SQ aiDAPTIV+
seamlessly incorporates Advantech's Edge AI SDK and services,
streamlining AI training processes by eliminating the necessity for
numerous costly GPUs and VRAM. Moreover, it empowers Edge AI
applications aspiring for corporate or departmental integration to
discover feasible opportunities and effortlessly translate business
impacts within the AI realm.”
Mr. K.S. Pua, CEO of Phison Electronics, states the partnership
between Phison and Advantech has spanned over 15 years. Phison and
Advantech have forged a powerful alliance in embedded and
industrial systems, spanning from early USB DOMs, CF cards, and
SATA SSDs to the latest PCIe 4.0/5.0 SSD specifications. Our
collaboration reaches new heights with the introduction of Phison's
proprietary aiDAPTIV+ technology solution, seamlessly integrating
with Advantech's Edge AI Solutions. Together, our alliance empowers
customers across the global industrial sector to develop widely
accessible GenAI deployment solutions, propelling the adoption of
intelligent applications like smart factories, healthcare, and
logistics; playing a pivotal role in establishing secure and
reliable edge GenAI environments to shape the future of smart
living.
[About Advantech]
As a global leader of the edge computing market, Advantech not
only offers a wide range of embedded boards, intelligent systems,
industrial peripherals and design-in services, but also provides
streamline services form R&D, manufacturing, to global support
and services. Additionally, to meet the rising industrial Edge AI
computing needs, we engage closely with various hardware, software,
and application partners. Our aim is to optimize the ecosystem,
establishing a versatile and open hardware-software integration AI
platform to propel and expedite AI technology in edge computing
applications. Continuously advancing the development of edge
intelligence and IoT security software, AIoT cloud platform
services, as well as diverse industrial peripheral storage,
wireless, and panel display modules. In line with our value-centric
business approach, we capitalize on over 40 years of product
expertise to target emerging industries such as 5G, green energy,
robotics, AMR, electric vehicle infrastructure, and drones. We
deliver application-focused embedded solutions to better serve our
customers. (Website: www.advantech.com). (Website:
www.advantech.com).
[About Advantech Edge AI Solutions] Advantech's Edge AI
Solutions provide a range of platforms, offering scalable computing
power and software toolkits for AI analytics at the edge. The Edge
AI Servers feature server-grade processors and GPU expansion
capabilities. Through integration with Phison aiDAPTIV+, LLMs run
seamlessly on-site, ensuring both high security and high
performance.
[About Advantech SQFlash] Advantech SQFlash is a global
leader in industrial storage and memory. We are committed to
providing a wide range of stable and efficient industrial storage
and memory devices with industry-leading quality and durability.
Ultimately, our greater goal is to ensure the reliable and
continuous operation of billions of industrial devices worldwide.
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[PHISON’s Quick Facts]
- Over 23 years of experience in NAND controller IC design and
module integration.
- Over 3,800 employees globally, and more than 75% are
engineers.
- Nearly 2,000 memory-related patents globally.
- Target long-term revenue of over NT$100 billion through the 5+5
growth strategy.
- Exceeds 20% of the global market share of SSD controllers.
- Exceeds 40% of the global market share of Automotive NAND
controllers.
- Unique business model that can produce consistently strong
cashflow and profits over long-term NAND memory market cycles.
- Committed to maintaining long-term partnerships with our global
NAND flash supply sources and with our downstream module
customers.
[About PHISON]
Phison Electronics Corp. (TPEX:8299) is a global leader in NAND
flash controller, storage solutions, signal integrity IC and AI
solution provider. We provide a variety of services from controller
design, system integration, IP licensing to total turnkey
solutions, covering applications across SSD (PCIe/SATA/PATA), eMMC,
UFS, SD and USB interfaces, reaching out to consumer, industrial
and enterprise markets. As an active member of industry
associations, Phison is on the Board of Directors for SDA, ONFI,
UFSA and a contributor for JEDEC, PCI-SIG, MIPI, NVMe, and
IEEE-SA.
To know more about Phison, please visit Phison Website or Phison
Q&A for details. Read more on our blog: www.phisonblog.com
[Forward-looking Statements]
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historical in nature are "forward-looking statements". Phison
cautions readers that forward-looking statements are based on
Phison’s reasonable knowledge and current expectations, and are
subject to various risks and uncertainties. Actual results may
differ materially from those contained in such forward-looking
statements for a variety of reasons including without limitation,
risks associated with demand and supply change, manufacturing and
supply capacity, design-win, time to market, market competition,
industrial cyclicality, customer’s financial condition, exchange
rate fluctuation, legal actions, amendments of the laws and
regulations, global economy change, natural disasters, and other
unexpected events which may disrupt Phison’s business and
operations. Accordingly, readers should not place reliance on any
forward-looking statements. Except as required by law, Phison
undertakes no obligation to update any forward-looking statement,
whether as a result of new information, future events, or
otherwise.
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