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Advantech Adds Intel, Qualcomm, AMD to WEDA Edge AI Ecosystem

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Advantech Adds Intel, Qualcomm, AMD to WEDA Edge AI Ecosystem

Taipei – September 20, 2026 -- Advantech Co., Ltd. (TWSE: 2395) has expanded its WEDA-Powered Edge AI ecosystem by bringing Intel, Qualcomm Technologies, and AMD into a shared framework for developing and deploying Edge AI across industrial and enterprise hardware.

Advantech unifies Edge AI development under WEDA architecture

The expansion centers on WISE-Edge Developer Architecture (WEDA), WEDA-Ready Edge Computing, and the Advantech Container Catalog (ACC). Together, the components are designed to standardize Edge AI development, validation, deployment, and lifecycle management across fragmented hardware environments, replacing what Advantech describes as disconnected, project-by-project development efforts.

Ceva Names Ex-Intel, Infineon Exec Hammer to Lead Connectivity Unit

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Ceva Names Ex-Intel, Infineon Exec Hammer to Lead Connectivity Unit

Rockville, Md. – September 18, 2026 -- Ceva, Inc. (NASDAQ: CEVA) has appointed Ziv Hammer as Executive Vice President, Connectivity & Sensing, a newly created role that consolidates the company's connectivity and sensing businesses along with its CTO Office under a single leader.

Hammer brings two decades of semiconductor leadership from Intel, Infineon and GlobalFoundries

Hammer joins Ceva after senior roles at Intel, Infineon Technologies and GlobalFoundries, where he led global engineering organizations of more than 1,000 employees spanning compute, connectivity, IoT and semiconductor technologies. Most recently, he served as Senior Vice President, Design Platforms and Services at GlobalFoundries, working across technology, IP, design enablement and ecosystem partners to move complex customized silicon designs from concept to production.

DFI Launches Dual-Generation Mini-ITX Board for Robotics AI

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DFI Launches Dual-Generation Mini-ITX Board for Robotics AI

Taipei – September 13, 2026 -- DFI has introduced the ARH171/ARH173, a Mini-ITX embedded platform that runs on two Intel Core Ultra processor generations from a single board, targeting AI-driven robotics and industrial automation.

Platform delivers up to 99 TOPS to power on-device AI inference

The ARH171/ARH173 supports 16 Intel Core Ultra processor options spanning Meteor Lake-U/H and Arrow Lake-U/H, with power ranges of 15-28W and Intel vPro available on select SKUs. Arrow Lake-H configurations reach up to 99 total platform TOPS, with the integrated Intel Arc GPU and dedicated NPU accelerating inference through OpenVINO, DirectML, and ONNX RT, reducing dependence on discrete graphics cards.