As a vane of industrial development, the 2023 Industrial Internet Conference was held in Suzhou, Jiangsu Province from June 14 to 16. At the “Edge Native Open and Unbounded” Industrial Internet Edge Computing Forum hosted by the China Academy of Information and Communications Technology and the Edge Computing Committee of the China Society of Communications, the first domestic edge computing product list, which took three years to build, was officially released, and the conference announced the evaluation results of the fourth batch of edge computing standard parts plan. Two products of Lenovo Huitian intelligent edge product family – Lenovo Huitian Industrial computer IPC-A60 and intelligent gateway Lenovo ThinkEdge SE30 successfully passed the test. At the meeting, Yang Chun, general manager of Lenovo ISG China Strategy Department and general manager of Lenovo Intelligent Edge China Division, brought the theme sharing of “Lenovo Huitian – Edge native computing power helps thousands of lines and industries intelligent transformation”. Since the release of Lenovo Huitian intelligent edge product family, Lenovo is committed to becoming the industry’s leading edge computing solution provider, with the edge native computing power to empower enterprises intelligent transformation.

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Edge native is a hot topic in the field of edge computing in recent years. According to Gartner, by 2025, 75% of all data will be generated at the edge outside the data center and cloud. At the same time, edge native also puts forward higher requirements for the construction and deployment of the current edge computing infrastructure.

Yang Chun pointed out in his speech that the current edge computing products and computing power need to adapt to a variety of harsh working environments, customers in different industries have different computing needs, and there are complex interface protocols between different edge computing solutions. With the continuous development of artificial intelligence, the computing power of traditional edge computing should also be upgraded from focusing on data collection and control to the application and reserve of artificial intelligence.

He said that Lenovo has taken the lead in the field of edge computing, created targeted edge native computing power, built edge native computing technology architecture, and constantly introduced edge computing products with reliability, flexibility, stability, management, and security. Lenovo Huitian intelligent edge product family is meeting the diversified computing power needs of industry customers. Lenovo hopes to work with customers from all walks of life to create edge computing solutions, help the intelligent transformation of the industry with edge native computing power, and jointly promote the accelerated development of edge computing in the industrial Internet field.

Lenovo’s emphasis on edge computing has risen to the strategic level of the company. Based on its own rich experience and industrial insight after years of digital and intelligent transformation and upgrading, Lenovo has previously created a product family for edge computing – Lenovo Huitian intelligent edge products. Lenovo Huitian comprehensively covers industrial computer, embedded computer, industrial all-in-one computer, intelligent edge gateway, edge server and other hardware equipment, with different computing capabilities, diverse product forms, to meet the needs of all walks of life.

On the road to becoming a leading edge computing solution provider in the industry, Lenovo is gradually forming the core capabilities of edge native computing power based on Lenovo Huitian’s intelligent edge hardware:

Lenovo Huitian intelligent edge full stack hardware. Core hardware to achieve structural innovation, to meet the wide temperature, wide pressure, waterproof and dustproof, seismic and other severe environmental testing. All Lenovo Huitian hardware adopts a modular architecture, interface, computing power, OS, etc., can be flexibly customized. In addition, most of Lenovo Huitian edge hardware also adopts heterogeneous design, supporting GPU and FPGA mainstream heterogeneous computing platforms, which can cover a variety of scenarios and accelerate artificial intelligence applications.

Lenovo edge cloud platform provides lightweight hyper-fusion solutions to achieve edge intelligent operation and security and trust. Lenovo edge Cloud software architecture, as a software system that can remotely manage edge computing infrastructure, can not only achieve more secure and life-cycle edge application management, but also effectively improve the unity and intelligence of center management, and explore a reliable path for cloud edge collaboration.

Lenovo Edge Industrial iot platform. Through a variety of combinations such as Lenovo Huitian Edge intelligent Gateway + Industrial Internet platform LeapIOT, Lenovo can provide data acquisition and AI capabilities, and prefabricated a series of industrial applications such as intelligent monitoring in the hardware to achieve one-stop industrial Internet platform application deployment.

Associative limbic brain platform. Lenovo Edge Brain uses small sample lifelong learning technology, and only a small number of valid samples are needed to build an artificial intelligence model and realize the basis for cross-industry industrial applications. And Lenovo has realized the integration of delivery adaptation from the underlying computing power to the platform. Through Lenovo Edge Brain, the training cycle can be shortened by 80%, the heterogeneous reasoning acceleration technology can improve the reasoning performance by 3-10 times, and the low-code AI solution can generate deployment technology to save 45% of the procurement cost and 75% of the remote deployment time.