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Roundtable: AMD, StorMagic, Wobot
AMDยท 2025-10-23 20:00
Edge Computing & AI Solutions - AMD focuses on edge-focused, hyper-converged infrastructure to support applications solving specific market problems [2] - Wobot concentrates on building a model plus layer to demonstrate the return on investment of their application in quick-serve restaurants, retail, manufacturing, and stadiums [3] - AMD aims to integrate solutions like StorMagic and Wobot into OEM platforms, offering cost-effective virtualization at the edge with AI capabilities [4] - The combined software solution enables customers to leverage AI integrated solutions on existing hardware, with multiple vendor options powered by AMD for future refreshes [11][12] Retail Industry Focus - Retailers operate with small budgets at the store level, emphasizing the total cost of ownership [6] - The solution aims to solve the problem of converging multiple data streams for retailers, reducing endpoint hardware [7] - Camera technology consolidates various functions, replacing IoT sensors and enabling customer counting and conversion rate tracking [9][10] - Edge-based virtualization and multimodal AI are critical to support various markets, including retail, public sector, healthcare, life sciences, and manufacturing [12][13] Key Benefits - StorMagic operates on as few as two nodes for high availability, simplifying video components and potentially replacing other data source analyzers [8] - The integrated solution offers best-in-class, cost-effective virtualization at the edge, bundled with AI capabilities for generative AI, physical AI, computer vision, and multimodal integration [4] - The solution enables retailers to achieve new outcomes and insights previously unattainable, highlighting that the data center is not the edge [5]