SHENZHEN, China, Jan. 16, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- Xilinx
(NASDAQ: XLNX), the leader in adaptive and intelligent computing,
today announced that the newly unveiled EdgeBoard, Baidu's edge
acceleration computing solution is enabled by Xilinx. The EdgeBoard
is a turn-key solution which is available fully configured
directly from Baidu. It can also be configured and customized as
part of the Baidu Brain AI Hardware Platform initiative, developed
to deliver proven market-specific technologies to the industry so
that companies can quickly adopt and deploy them for edge-specific
applications.
The Baidu Brain AI Hardware Platform is part of the Baidu Brain
AI capabilities open platform, encompassing Baidu's open computing
services and hardware and software products for edge artificial
intelligence (AI) applications. EdgeBoard is based on the
Xilinx® Zynq®
UltraScale+™ MPSoC, which integrates powerful
real-time processors with programmable logic, providing developers
with unrivaled levels of system performance, flexibility and
scalability allowing them to quickly build and bring to market
innovative AI products. The Xilinx MPSoC-based EdgeBoard will
enable the development of edge application products such as
smart-video security surveillance solutions,
advanced-driver-assistance systems and next-generation robots.
"Xilinx offers the world's leading adaptive chips and
development support. The flexible EdgeBoard we built based on
Xilinx is designed to enable developers and engineers to quickly
leverage Baidu-proven technology or deploy self-defined models,
enabling faster deployment," said Youping
Yu, general manager of Baidu's AI ecosystem division. "This
is the ideal acceleration engine to enable Baidu Brain to broadly
serve Chinese edge AI developers."
"We are very excited to be selected as the AI technology for the
Baidu Brain AI Hardware Platform," said Freddy Engineer, corporate
vice president, global data center sales, Xilinx. "The massive and
open ecosystem being built by Baidu will accelerate the innovation
of edge AI across China, resulting
in products and solutions that will improve the way we work and
live."
For more information about the Baidu EdgeBoard, please
visit: http://ai.baidu.com/tech/hardware/deepkit.
About Xilinx
Xilinx develops highly flexible and
adaptive processing platforms that enable rapid innovation across a
variety of technologies – from the endpoint to the edge to the
cloud. Xilinx is the inventor of the FPGA, hardware programmable
SoCs and the ACAP, designed to deliver the most dynamic processor
technology in the industry and enable the adaptable, intelligent
and connected world of the future. For more information,
visit www.xilinx.com.
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