London, England & Adelaide, South Australia
- Intel joins Airspeeder as its new Official Intelligence Partner in a strategic sponsorship agreement; to provide end-to-end systems support and insights to help power the world’s first flying electric car racing series.
- Announcement coincides with public unveiling of the new Mk4 Airspeeder at Adelaide’s Motorsport Festival.
Airspeeder is delighted to announce a new collaboration with Intel that brings the global tech giant’s computing technologies to flying car racing. As the Airspeeder Series’ Official Intelligence Partner, Intel Core processor and Intel Xeon Scalable processors will help shape the sport to maximise its appeal to racers and fans alike.
The new strategic sponsorship deal was revealed in a joint presentation at the Motor Sport Show in Adelaide on March 25th, where Adelaide-based Alauda unveiled its new Mk4 Airspeeder – the first-ever piloted craft to take part in the Airspeeder race series.
“We’re incredibly excited to have Intel on board. The technology, insight and innovation it’s bringing to Airspeeder will transform our racing series, making it even more immersive and dynamic for pilotes and spectacular for out audiences. Just as importantly, Intel’s pervasive connectivity’ perfectly matches our vision of an always-connected, vertical-enabled future. Through the actionable insights provided by AI, we can achieve next-level eVTOL performance and control, which we see as the key to unlocking the future of private air mobility.” – Matt Pearson, CEO, Alauda Aeronautics
“This is another example of Intel continuing to deliver the compute power needed to stretch the notion of what’s possible, make what was once science fiction a reality, and transform the way we race, but also opens up endless possibilities in urban mobility.” – Andrew McLean, Managing Director ANZ, Intel
Article and images supplied by Airspeeder.
