Airspeeder confirms Intel as its new Official Intelligence Partner, ahead of world’s first electric flying car racing series

Air­speed­er has announced 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.  

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.

Matt Pear­son, CEO, Alau­da Aero­nau­tics, said: “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 pilots and spec­tac­u­lar for our 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.”

The new strate­gic spon­sor­ship deal was revealed in a joint pre­sen­ta­tion at the Motor­sport Show in Ade­laide last Sat­ur­day, March 25th, where Ade­laide-based Alau­da Aero­nau­tics unveiled its new Mk4 Air­speed­er – the first-ever pilot­ed craft to take part in the Air­speed­er race series.

Andrew McLean, Man­ag­ing Direc­tor ANZ, Intel, said: “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 live our lives. Help­ing Air­speed­er bring this new con­cept to life has the poten­tial to not only change the way we race, but also opens up end­less pos­si­bil­i­ties in urban mobil­i­ty.”