High AI performance in a tiny rugged fanless industrial PC

SolidRun has released what is claimed to be the world's first rugged system design that combines eight-core AMD Ryzen 7040 series processors with multiple Hailo-8 AI accelerators to produce its Bedrock R7000 Edge AI for AI applications. This new member in its Bedrock family of fanless modular industrial PCs is specifically designed to satisfy demanding vision-based situational awareness in harsh environments.

The new system combines with the AMD Ryzen 7840HS processor, a state-of-the-art 4nm APU with 8C/16T Zen4 CPU and integrated RDNA 3 Radeon 780M GPU. The 20 native PCIe Gen4 lanes and up to three Hailo-8 AI accelerators can be fully utilised together with NVME Gen4x4 storage, dual 2.5Gbit Ethernet and 4x4K displays. The CPU and all devices are passively cooled by the innovative fanless cooling system of the device in an industrial temperature range of -40C to 85C.

Demand for high-performance Edge AI box-PCs is increasing in all embedded market segments, including Industry 4.0, robotics, autonomous guided vehicles, healthcare, transportation, smart cities, retail, agriculture, defence, and utility.

"Efficiency and scalability are key factors in advanced edge AI," said Irad Stavi, IPC product line manager at SolidRun. "Bedrock R7000 stands out as the first fanless IPC based on the ultra-efficient AMD Ryzen 7040 processor and the innovative modular design which enables out-of-the-box integration of 3 Hailo-8 AI accelerators, each with 26 TOPS, or even more with a simple customisation."

"An important feature of Hailo-8 AI accelerator and Hailo AI Software Suite is linear scaling of the inference performance simply by adding modules," said Dima Caplan, product manager at Hailo. "SolidRun's new Edge AI platform exhibits ample system resources which enable high AI performance at perfect scaling."