Ectron Corporation (https://ectron.thomasnetdev.com) based in San Diego California and Xceler Systems (https://www.xcelersystems.com) announce that they will work in jointly developing products for the Industrial IoT and embedded/ruggedized computer markets.

The first product is going to be an Arduino compatible development hosting an FPGA for general purpose use as well as IoT applications to be launched mid quarter. The companies also announced they will work together to launch other system and sub-system level products based on the Xceler Graph processor technology in embedded and computing markets.

The recent rise of artificial intelligence (AI) can be partly attributed to improvements in graphics processing unit (GPU) processors, mostly deployed in cloud server architectures. GPUs are massively parallel processors that can map well to the large number of vector and matrix multiplication calculations that need to be performed in deep learning.