J-Squared Unveils the FALC-20, their AI-Inferencing Small Form Factor Computer, in Collaboration with Blaize® to Deliver Scalable AI Acceleration for Edge Deployments, at ISCwest 2023
March 28 2023 - 5:19AM
Business Wire
J-Squared FALC products powered by Blaize, and
its Graph Streaming Processor (GSP®) architecture, provide low
power, low latency, and efficient memory use.
Squared and Blaize® will showcase J-Squared’s FALC product
family at the International Security Conference & Exposition
(ISCwest) 2023 in Las Vegas from March 28th to 31st.
Designed for video and AI applications at the edge, the FALC
product family offers rugged and industrial variants, suited for
any environment and ideal for a wide range of applications and
industries.
J-Squared’s flagship product, the FALC-20, provides AI
inferencing performance of up to 64 TOPS and can be populated with
1 to 4 Blaize® Xplorer™ X1600E EDSFF Small Form Factor accelerator
cards. “Blaize made a great strategic decision in developing a
version of their solution on an EDSFF card,” said Andrew Woollard,
from J-Squared’s CTO Office. “The E1.S form factor is flexible and
power efficient. Integrating this into the FALC-20 design, has
enabled AI acceleration and storage to be interchangeable. This
embraces J-Squared’s design philosophy for the FALC-20 platform of
modularity and versatility.”
The FALC-20 leverages a COMe architecture to increase modularity
further, which offers ‘plug-and-play’ CPU optionality. “J-Squared’s
FALC-20 provides AI acceleration powered by the Xplorer X1600E
EDSFF Small Form Factor Accelerator, ideal for computer vision
applications and AI inferencing solutions for edge use cases,” said
Dinakar Munagala, CEO and Co-founder of Blaize. “By offering a
feature-rich platform capable of scaling both CPU and AI
acceleration performance, it meets end application software
requirements while handling the power and thermal limitations
imposed by rugged and challenging edge deployment environments in
aerospace, industrial, and transportation industries.”
With options for wireless communication, the FALC-20 is the
ideal solution for both edge-native and hybrid edge-cloud
architectures. “The pendulum is starting to swing away from
cloud-only deployments, and many industries are beginning to adopt
hybrid-cloud architectures. Companies are seeking to tap into the
advantages of edge-computing such as freedom from wireless
bandwidth challenges, reduced latency, and privacy challenges, all
of which impact security and surveillance applications greatly,”
said Jeff Gibson, J-Squared’s Founder and CEO.
Blaize’s AI StudioTM, along with other key partner software
demoes have been seamless integrated on to J-Squared’s FALC-20 and
can be experienced at Booth #32075 located in the Emerging Tech
Pavilion at ISC West this year.
About J-Squared J-Squared Technologies Inc. has over 30
years of experience supporting and supplying the North American
electronics marketplace. Each of our divisions offers specific
skills and services to address our customers’ product lifecycle
requirements; from conceptualization, design, build and test to
long-term in-service product support. Our core principle to exceed
customer expectations, combined with our focus on continuous
improvement, has resulted in extensive success across multiple
industries and markets. For more information, visit our page for
our FALC product family
https://octagonsystems.com/products/falc.
About Blaize® Blaize is a leading provider of a
proprietary purpose-built, full-stack hardware architecture and
low-code/no-code software platform that enables edge AI processing
solutions at the network’s edge for computing in multiple large and
rapidly-growing markets — automotive, mobility, retail, security,
industrial automation, medical devices, and many others. Blaize’s
novel solution solves the technical problem that edge AI processing
requires across those verticals — very low latency and high thermal
and power efficiency — which previously relied on retrofitting
sub-optimized AI solutions designed more for data centers and the
cloud. Blaize has previously raised over $180MM from strategic
investors such as DENSO, Daimler, Magna, and Samsung, and financial
investors such as Franklin Templeton, Temasek, GGV, and others.
With headquarters in El Dorado Hills (CA), Blaize has teams in San
Jose (CA) and subsidiaries in Hyderabad (India), and Leeds and
Kings Langley (UK), with 300+ employees worldwide. www.blaize.com.
Follow Blaize on Twitter (@blaizeinc) and LinkedIn (Blaize).
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MEDIA CONTACTS
Andrew Woollard | J-Squared Technologies, Inc.
awoollard@jsquared.com
Leo Merle | Blaize, Inc. leo.merle@blaize.com