Intel empowers partners to seamlessly integrate AI into existing infrastructure with its new Intel AI Edge Systems, Edge AI Suites and Open Edge Platform software.
What’s New: Intel is unveiling its new Intel® AI Edge Systems, Edge AI Suites and Open Edge Platform initiatives. These offerings help streamline and speed up AI adoption at the edge across industries such as retail, manufacturing, smart cities, and media and entertainment by simplifying integration with existing infrastructure.
“Our customers want to expand the use of AI in their existing infrastructure and workflows at the edge, ensuring they meet their total cost of ownership and achieve power and performance goals. With decades of experience at the edge, we’re taking our edge AI offerings and support one step further with Intel AI Edge Systems, Edge AI Suites and Open Edge Platform to accelerate the delivery of AI-ready solutions across the ecosystem.”
— Dan Rodriguez, Intel corporate vice president and general manager of the Edge Computing Group
Why It Matters: Edge AI is becoming an essential driver of enterprise innovation. Gartner forecasts that by the end of 2025, 50% of enterprise-managed data will be processed outside traditional data centers or the cloud — in places such as retail stores, manufacturing plants and healthcare facilities. By 2026, at least half of edge computing deployments will involve machine learning1.
With over 100,000 real-world edge implementations with partners, many leveraging AI today, Intel understands the unique challenges of edge AI. These challenges vary significantly by industry, with each having distinct performance and power needs. What works for cloud providers is not suitable for enterprises at the edge, which need to maintain existing platforms and software, while integrating AI, to get the best total cost of ownership (TCO) and power efficiency.
Unlike large data centers with dedicated AI infrastructure, edge AI deployments must seamlessly integrate into preexisting IT systems in space-constrained, low-power and cost-sensitive environments.
Intel AI Edge Systems, alongside Edge AI Suites and the Open Edge Platform, address these challenges by building on Intel’s pervasive technology foundation at the edge. These efforts empower the ecosystem to bring edge AI to market faster and more efficiently.
The open edge approach allows Intel to consistently deliver better end-to-end performance and overall TCO in a variety of key industries. In an edge AI video analytics use case, tera operations per second (TOPs) alone don’t deliver real-world performance needs. When comparing Intel® Core™ Ultra processors to leading AI competition, although competition may lead in TOPs, Intel delivers up to a 2.3x increase in end-to-end pipeline performance, and up to 5x better performance per dollar2.
How an Open Ecosystem Accelerates Edge AI: While many edge deployments today incorporate AI using traditional machine learning and computer vision, Intel’s AI Edge Systems, Edge AI Suites and Open Edge Platform are designed to accelerate the deployment of advanced AI applications. Through a robust ecosystem of trusted partners, Intel enables enterprises to tackle industry-specific challenges and drive innovation in edge AI deployments.
- Intel AI Edge Systems: Intel’s edge systems speed up AI deployment at the edge. Builders – original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) and original design manufacturers (ODMs) – have access to standardized blueprints, benchmarks and verification tools optimized for edge AI use cases. These resources enable customers and solution providers to easily configure systems to meet the performance needs of use cases like vision AI or generative AI (GenAI). With a range of power levels, sizes and performance options, these solutions ensure optimal integration of hardware and software.
- Edge AI Suites: Edge AI Suites are open, industry-specific AI software development kits (SDKs) for independent software vendors (ISVs), system integrators and solutions builders. These suites simplify the creation of custom AI solutions for various industries by providing curated reference applications, sample code and benchmarks to accelerate application development. Currently, Intel offers four suites, optimized for retail, manufacturing, smart cities, and media and entertainment.
- Open Edge Platform: The Open Edge Platform is a modular, open source platform that simplifies the development, deployment and management of edge and AI applications at scale. With cloud-like simplicity, this platform allows ISVs, solution builders and operating system vendors to integrate software components efficiently and leverage performance optimizations from Intel’s latest software advancements. Partners can easily deploy containerized workloads on remote edge devices — without the need for on-site visits — and manage these deployments with tools like Intel vPro®/Intel® Active Management Technology, enabling collaboration and innovation across the software ecosystem.
What the Ecosystem Is Saying: Read a quote sheet with testimonials from participating partners including Cisco Compute, Lenovo, Red Hat, Wind River Systems and others.
More Context: Intel’s Edge AI Portfolio (Intel.com)
The Small Print:
1 Gartner®, Hyperscalers Stretching to the Digital Edge, By Thomas Bittman, 24 July 2023.
2 Based on Intel internal measurements/estimation/calculations as of January 2025; Intel® Core™ Ultra 7 Processor 265H compared to Nvidia Jetson Orin AGX 64GB delivers 3.5x higher media decode performance, 2.3x higher E2E pipeline performance, and up to 5.0x higher Performance/$ respectively
As measured on E2E Pipeline Workloads: Edge AI Video Analytics Workload: 1080p30 HEVC decode + pre-processing + detection using Yolov5s_640 @ 5fps 1 object per frame + classification using Mobilenet-V2 @ 5 inf/s/str + Resnet50 @ 5 inf/s/str
Performance varies by use, configuration and other factors. Learn more at intel.com/performanceindex.
About Intel
Intel (Nasdaq: INTC) is an industry leader, creating world-changing technology that enables global progress and enriches lives. Inspired by Moore’s Law, we continuously work to advance the design and manufacturing of semiconductors to help address our customers’ greatest challenges. By embedding intelligence in the cloud, network, edge and every kind of computing device, we unleash the potential of data to transform business and society for the better. To learn more about Intel’s innovations, go to newsroom.intel.com and intel.com.
