On March 17, 2026 at 9 am PT (noon ET), Efinix’s Mark Oliver, VP of Marketing and Business Development, will present the free hour webinar “Why your Next AI Accelerator Should Be an FPGA,” organized by the Edge AI and Vision Alliance. Here’s the description, from the event registration page:
Edge AI system developers often assume that AI workloads require a GPU or NPU. But when cost, latency, complex I/O or tight power budgets dominate, FPGAs offer compelling advantages.
In this talk we’ll explore how FPGA serve not just a compute block, but as a system-integration and acceleration platform that can combine tailored sensor I/O, signal processing, pre/post-processing and neural inference on one device.
We’ll also show how to map AI models onto FPGAs without doing customer hardware design, using two two practical on-ramps—(1) a software-first flow that generates custom instructions callable from C, and (2) a turnkey CNN acceleration block.
Using representative embedded-vision workloads, we’ll show apples-to-apples benchmarks. Attendees will leave with a decision checklist and a concrete “first experiment” plan.
Mark Oliver is an industry veteran with extensive experience in engineering, applications, and marketing. A native of the UK, Mark gained a degree in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from the University of Leeds. During a ten year tenure with Hewlett Packard, he managed Engineering and Manufacturing functions in HP Divisions both in Europe and the US before heading up Product Marketing and Applications Engineering at a series of video related startups. Prior to joining Efinix, Mark was Director of Worldwide Storage Accounts at Marvell, heading up Marketing and Business Development activities.
To register for this free webinar, please see the event page. For more information, please email [email protected].
