ASRock Industrial Partners with Canonical for Ubuntu-Certified Industrial Platforms

ASRock Industrial, the leading manufacturer of Edge AIoT solutions, announces a partnership with Canonical to certify Ubuntu on its industrial systems and motherboards. The awaited collaboration allows ASRock Industrial to provide Ubuntu-certified devices with all Ubuntu functionality and long-term support with security updates from Canonical.

Through extensive testing and validation, the new iEP-5000G Industrial IoT Controller is now an Ubuntu-certified platform. With the internationally recognised certification, customers can gain confidence in products’ seamless integration with Ubuntu while accelerating the time-to-market of application development.

Alongside the rapid growth of Edge AIoT and its adoption in the open-source community, Ubuntu operating system (OS) is now one of the most popular OSs worldwide, extensively used in applications dedicated to developing and verifying AIoT solutions. Choosing Ubuntu for your next machine learning or AI project can offer various benefits, such as being open-source, fast AI model training, significant community support, receiving the latest updates with solid security, and more.

Through the collaboration with Canonical, ASRock Industrial’s newest iEP-5000G Industrial IoT Controller is now an Ubuntu-certified platform. It features high computing power with flexible IOs and expansions under a compact and rugged design as Edge Controller and IoT Gateway in various Edge AI applications, including smart manufacturing, process automation, and smart poles in smart cities. The Ubuntu-tested and validated hardware enables long-term support with up to 10 years of security updates from Canonical, bringing the best and most reliable customer experience.

“ASRock Industrial and Canonical work together to provide Ubuntu certified devices and ensure developers have the best out-of-the-box Ubuntu experience,” “In response to the booming AIoT market, it is our goal that through an extensive testing and review process, to support the open-source community with a safe and smooth operation. With maintenance and security updates guaranteed by Ubuntu Certification, Canonical looks forward to seeing the growth and innovation of Edge AIoT solutions brought by ASRock Industrial customers,” said Taiten Peng, IoT Field Engineer of Canonical.

“The new partnership with Canonical in the growing global market of Edge AIoT enables us to provide better service and flexibility to our customers and speeds up the development and time-to-market process of their solutions,” “ASRock Industrial is looking forward to the next steps stemming from this great opportunity to combine our products and solutions with Ubuntu operating system in the Edge AIoT proliferation throughout major industry verticals,” said James Lee, President of ASRock Industrial.

For further information regarding ASRock Industrial’s Ubuntu-certified devices, visit our website.

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