AI accelerator portfolio delivers unprecedented performance to edge AI applications

Hailo has expanded its groundbreaking Hailo-8 AI accelerator range following hundreds of successful deployments in customer programs and products. The new high-performance Hailo-8 Century PCIe card line delivers up to 208 TOPS for most demanding applications, and the Hailo-8L makes advanced AI processing available for entry-level applications. These product lines are provided at a competitive price compared to the respective category leaders.

"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 competitively priced Hailo-8L, with up to 13 TOPS, is created to support entry-level products requiring limited AI capacity or lower performance. The Hailo-8 Century line, comprising PCIe cards delivering 52 TOPS to 208 TOPS, allows demanding applications such as video management systems handling many video streams. The Century PCIe cards have best-in-class power efficiency at 400 FPS per watt on the ResNet50 benchmark model. They also offer the highest cost efficiency for the 52 TOPS card, representing up to a 70% reduction in edge AI deployment costs. They provide a robust design that supports industrial temperature ranges and provides compatibility with practically any environment or application.

"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."

Both product lines deliver excellent low-latency, high-efficiency processing, handling complex pipelines with multiple real-time streams and concurrent processing of multiple models and AI tasks. The expanded portfolio of products supplies seamless scalability for future upgrades, as all products are compatible with the same field-proven and comprehensive Hailo-8 software suite.

"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."