Vision AI technology is essential in semiconductor manufacturing, ensuring accuracy and quality at each stage. From wafer defect inspection like scratches or particles during silicon wafer manufacturing process to ensuring pattern alignment during photolithography, Vision AI identifies imperfections that could lead to downstream issues. It also inspects etched features at the nanometer scale, verifies uniformity in material deposition, and ensures perfect metallization, helping manufacturers maintain high standards throughout the production process, ultimately improving yield and reducing waste.

Advantech’s industrial Vision AI system offers significant advantages for semiconductor equipment. Powered by the AI Edge Server with Intel® Xeon® scalable processors and multiple ultra-high-end NVIDIA GPU cards, it enables high speed, real-time AI-driven wafer inspections. The Frame Grabber Card ensures the image acquisition from industrial camera without any latency, frame loss, supporting multi-camera setups via Camera Link interfaces, crucial for capturing high-resolution images of wafers. This system ensures micro meter defect detection, increasing accuracy, reducing waste, and improving overall production efficiency. Its modular and scalable design is ideal for AI-driven quality control, allowing manufacturers to boost throughput while maintaining consistent product quality.

• Automated inline wafer inspection
• Web inspection and line scan AI inspection
• PCB board inspection
• Large-scale inference

• High-end edge AI inference system: Short-Depth Edge Accelerator Server with Scalable Processors.
• Frame Grabber Card: Axion Family, supporting Camera Link interfaces for real-time high-resolution imaging.
• GPU Card: NVIDIA RTX GPU cards to handle complex AI computations in visual inspections.

The complexity of modern electronic components demands multi-camera, high-speed inspection setups to ensure consistent quality. Vision AI inspection systems excel in managing data from multiple cameras simultaneously, processing high volumes of visual data with speed and accuracy. By leveraging AI, manufacturers can significantly reduce inspection times and overkill rate while maintaining a high standard of quality assurance, ensuring that only defect-free components reach the final stages of production.

Advantech’s Modular IPC with GPU expansion i-Module, supporting NVIDIA Quadro full-height GPUs and advanced frame grabbers allows for maximum adaptability and performance. Whether handling high-speed USB Vision frame grabbers or integrating industrial AI cameras with PoE interfaces, Advantech provides robust solutions that can flexibly expand with production needs. These systems offer superior processing capabilities, making them ideal for high-speed, multi-camera, area scan inspection of small electronics.

• Multi-camera high-speed inspection for electronic components
• High-precision defect detection in die bonding and micro-assemblies
• High-resolution image capturing for quality assurance
• Factory automation and real-time visual analysis in electronics manufacturing

• Compact Vision System: Modular IPC with GPU expansion i-Module, powered by Intel® 14th Gen Core™ processor
• Frame Grabber Card: 8-port PCIe USB Vision Frame Grabber supports multi-camera inputs and delivering fast data transfer for accurate image capture.
• GPU Card: Professional-grade NVIDIA GPU cards for handling AI-based computations, ensuring real-time processing of multiple visual inputs and precise defect detection.
• Industrial AI Camera: USB 3.0 interface and high-resolution up to 20 mega pixel CCD/CMOS