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ASRock's Intel 800 Series Motherboards for Complex Workloads

Chad Cox

January 8, 2025

Taiwan. ASRock Industrial announced its newest range of industrial motherboards leveraging Intel Core Ultra 200S Processors (Arrow Lake-S) with Intel 800 series chipsets. The motherboards feature an advanced hybrid architecture with up to 24 cores and an upgraded NPU making them ideal for edge performance, energy-efficiency, and enhanced AI acceleration for complex AI driven workloads. Support for up to DDR5 6400 MHz memory, various I/O, expansion options, quad display capabilities, PCIe Gen5, and USB4/ Thunderbolt 4 for ultra-fast connectivity is delivered. Select models offer 10G LAN to meet the demands of high-speed networking.

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Embedded Executive: Deploying Production AI, Synaptics

January 8, 2025

The industry revolves around two types of AI, namely research AI versus production AI. I wasn’t sure what these terms meant and their differences, so I asked an expert to join me on this week’s Embedded Executives podcast.

John Weil is the Vice president and General Manager of Synaptics’ IoT Business Unit. After setting me straight, John talks about the last 20% of a design that the customer needs to figure out for themselves, amongst other things.