Hon Hai Precision Industry Co (鴻海精密) yesterday said it is launching artificial intelligent (AI) solutions for retail and manufacturing markets in collaboration with Japanese system-on-chip (SoC) solutions provider Socionext Inc and US-based software company Network Optix Inc.
Known as Foxconn Technology Group (富士康科技集團) outside Taiwan, the company’s new AI offering, powered by Socionext’s ARM-based central processing unit and equipped with Network Optix’s video management software, comes in the form of a video analysis AI server for Internet protocol (IP) cameras.
Hon Hai has been shifting its focus from electronics manufacturing to developing industrial AI products and applications over the past few years.
Chairman Young Liu (劉揚偉) told investors in November last year that he expects revenue in the company’s corporate products segment — which includes servers as well as network and communication devices — increase 5 to 10 percent this year on the back of AI applications and 5G technology deployments.
The company’s new AI server, dubbed BOXiedge, provides support for a broad range of IP cameras on the market and offers more than 20 tera operations per second for Internet AI applications in terms of SoC performance.
It also enables video recognition and filters to identify objects for use in various retail, manufacturing, surveillance and medial healthcare industries.
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