Inspur EIS200 with NVIDIA Jetson TX2 NX for IoT
The Inspur Intelligent Edge Microserver EIS200 with the new NVIDIA Jetson TX2 NX AI Edge Inference System on Module (SOM.) SOMs are popular in the edge deployment space since they take a lot of the work building basic interfaces away from hardware designers allowing faster time to market.
The new Jetson TX2 NX we are told does not have a developer kit planned, but the SOM form factor is similar to the Jetson Nano and Jetson Xavier NX which enables the EIS200’s flexibility.
The EIS200 also has the ability to use different types of SOMs such as the Xavier NX SOM.
As one can see, the new EIS200 is a part of Inspur’s larger Edge AI portfolio. While we previously reviewed the Inspur NE5260M5 2U short-depth edge server, the next server review at STH of an Inspur system will be the NE3412M5 which is extremely cool. Inspur says that it is expecting a sub 5% cloud CAGR over the next few years but well over 30% for the edge AI market largely due to 5G.
For training, Inspur recently announced its NF5468M6 that we covered briefly in the company’s M6 3rd generation Intel Xeon Scalable platform launch.
We will get back to reviewing some of the larger GPU training servers from the company after we finish the NE3412M5 review.
Final Words
Inspur is an enormous AI platform company. As the third-largest server vendor, its AI business is one that it consistently touts as a competitive advantage. Not only does it make training servers and inferencing servers for the edge, but it also has its own AIStation for AI Cluster Operations Management. Given its AI systems market share both on training and for inferencing platforms, its adoption of the NVIDIA Jetson TX2 NX is a major development. While training is still the realm of large companies and one that NVIDIA has a huge market share in, the inferencing side is expected to grow quickly and the number of solutions available with AI acceleration at the edge is increasing every quarter. Inspur adopting NVIDIA’s Arm + GPU solution for the edge market means that the company is seeing demand for the Jetson SOMs in its customer base.
