Hailo expands embedded AI chips into entry level
Hailo in Israel has expanded its first generation Hailo-8 AI accelerator range following feedback from early deployments.
A PCIe card called Hailo-8 Century offers up to 208 Tera Operations per Second (TOPS) for most demanding applications, and the Hailo-8L chip makes advanced AI processing available for entry-level applications.
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“The expansion of our Hailo-8 AI accelerator portfolio is unlocking new opportunities for our customers to harness real-time, power-efficient intelligence in a diverse range of applications and industries,” said Orr Danon, CEO of Hailo. “With the rise of generative AI driven applications, our powerful and cost-efficient solutions bring unmatched AI performance and power efficiency, enabling state-of-the-art transformer-based models such as ViT, CLIP and SAM, at the edge.”
The Hailo-8L, with up to 13 TOPS, is designed to support entry level products requiring limited AI capacity or lower performance.
The Century line of PCIe cards delivers 52 to 208 TOPS, enables demanding applications such as video management systems handling a large number of video streams. This is benchmarked at 400 FPS per watt on the ResNet50 benchmark model and starts at $249 for the 52 TOPS card, representing up to 70% reduction in edge AI deployment costs. The cards have a robust design that supports industrial temperature ranges and ensures compatibility with virtually any environment or application.
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“We see the Hailo-8 Century product line as an enabler for many market verticals, such as security, retail and smart cities, which show increasing demand for AI compute power in large camera deployments,” said Tom Larson, President of Velasea. “By offering Hailo-8 Century empowered edge boxes, we offer our customers a cost-effective solution for high performance video analytics at scale.”
The Hailo-8L can run the benchmark classification model ResNet50 at 500 FPS, and the Century PCIe cards can run this model at up to 10K FPS, outperforming Nvidia’s comparable products in performance, cost efficiency and power efficiency parameters.
“With the power of Hailo-8 now accessible to a wider range of applications and products, catering to both demanding and entry-level use-cases, we are driving the industry forward in an era where efficient, scalable edge AI processing is increasingly important for businesses to achieve their targets using enhanced processing and analytic capabilities with unparalleled speed and accuracy,” Danon concluded. “This significant expansion marks a milestone in delivering seamless real-time intelligence for diverse edge AI applications ranging from security and smart cities to transportation, smart retail, industrial automation, automotive, and beyond.”
The expansion follows the successful launch of the Hailo-15 vision processor units in Q1, which are currently sampling to embed AI into cameras to enhance both video quality and video analytics.
Both Hailo-8L and the Hailo-8 Century product lines are available for order. High AI capacity products similar to the Century card are available also from ODM partners Aetina, Lanner, and Mitac.
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