Infrastructure
Short-depth and micro data centre platforms for near-premise compute
Edge servers sit between devices and the cloud: telecom cabinets, retail back offices, hospital equipment rooms and factory server closets. They typically emphasise short chassis depth, remote management and constrained power and cooling.
Representative platforms with the details engineering and procurement teams shortlist on.
Short-depth two-socket 2U server purpose-built for edge sites running video analytics and inference.
2.5U edge box server with a single Xeon Scalable socket, up to 2 TB DDR5 and three full-height PCIe 5.0 x16 slots.
EPYC 8004 edge server supporting up to 64 cores, 768 GB of TruDDR5 memory and up to six single-wide accelerators.
4U AMD EPYC 7003 edge AI system taking up to four single-slot GPUs with a 1200 W ATX 3.0 power supply.
Specifications are summarised from publicly published manufacturer material and are provided for orientation only. Always confirm current figures directly with the manufacturer before purchasing or designing in.
Hardware manufacturer
Industrial computing manufacturer supplying modular fanless edge systems such as the MIC-770 series and GPU-dense edge AI servers such as the AIR-520 for factory and infrastructure deployments.
Taipei, Taiwan
Hardware manufacturer
Builds configurable industrial computers, including fanless systems with Intel Core Ultra processors and expansion for Hailo accelerators or NVIDIA graphics cards.
South Burlington, Vermont, United States
Cloud & infrastructure provider
Supplies the PowerEdge XR range of short-depth, edge-focused servers for industrial automation, video analytics and inference at retail, telecom and factory sites.
Round Rock, Texas, United States
Hardware manufacturer
Manufactures ThinkEdge edge servers and ThinkStation workstations, including multi-GPU platforms for local model development and EPYC-based edge systems for distributed sites.
Beijing, China / Morrisville, United States
Cloud & infrastructure provider
Builds IoT SuperServer and edge box systems with Xeon Scalable processors and full-height PCIe expansion for accelerators, aimed at telecom, industrial and retail edge sites.
San Jose, California, United States
Software provider
Originator of K3s, the lightweight CNCF-conformant Kubernetes distribution now a CNCF project, widely used to orchestrate containerised AI workloads on edge and Arm hardware.
Nuremberg, Germany