What is an AIPU?
The Axelera AIPUs are purpose-built AI inference processors. Designed intentionally to bring the highest performance possible within the smallest of power envelopes.
Axelera has announced three distinct versions of our AIPU to support different use cases, different form factors, and different performance requirements.
- MetisTM: a 214 TOP powerhouse packed into a 4-8watt budget. Metis brings inference to the edge in a compact M.2 module or PCIe card, delivering hundreds to thousands frames per second of real time analysis.
- EuropaTM: a 629 TOP inference accelerator that incorporates on-die pre/post processing, doubles the AIPU core-count and adds 16 vector processing units and scales from "heavy edge" to enterprise data center.
- TitaniaTM: a chiplet that scales the Digital In-Memory compute architecture into high performance compute and AI Gigafactories.
One SDK. Every Platform.
Deploy your AI applications across both Metis and Europa with the same Voyager SDK. Develop once and scale across the entire Axelera platform, from compact edge devices to enterprise servers. The Voyager SDK uses simple YAML configuration to automatically compile, optimize, and deploy your complete application pipeline, whether you're running vision models, image processing, or language models. Build on one platform, deploy anywhere your applications need to run.
"The Ultralytics YOLO family of models has set the industry standard for computer vision globally. The performance we've achieved running YOLO models on Axelera AI's Metis platform has been remarkable, delivering the speed and efficiency our users demand for real-world computer vision applications. Our collaboration has proven that advanced AI inference can be both powerful and accessible. With Europa's expanded capabilities coming next year, we're excited to broaden YOLO's deployment across entirely new use cases.
Advantech has successfully integrated Axelera AI's Metis AIPU into our products, bringing efficient AI processing to customers worldwide. The real-world performance and reliability have exceeded expectations, enabling breakthrough applications in manufacturing automation and intelligent infrastructure. We're thrilled to support the Europa launch and look forward to incorporating its 629 TOPS of processing...[read more]
“SECO is a leading provider of Edge AI solutions, empowering customers to bring intelligence and efficiency directly to their devices. We integrated Metis into our Edge AI product line earlier this year and have been impressed by the significant boost in performance and scalability it delivers. We are excited to partner with Axelera as they continue to expand their world-class inference portfolio and enable even broader adoption of AI at the edge across industries.
