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MemryX and Edge Impulse collab to advance edge AI development

Edge AI accelerator firm MemryX has partnered with machine learning development platform Edge Impulse to build and deploy efficient AI models on MemryX’s AI chips.

MemryX says the partnership will strengthen the scalability and flexibility of its chips, allowing AI developers to push models further,

The company’s edge AI chips are used in applications across a range of industries, from robotics and automation to IoT and edge computing. Their high performance, thanks...

15 February 2023 | AI

STMicroelectronics bolsters edge AI tools with new developer cloud

Dutch semiconductor firm STMicroelectronics has launched its STM32Cube.AI developer cloud to expand its edge AI portfolio.

The online development platform is designed to speed up edge application development by simplifying processes for embedded engineers and data scientists.

STMicro says it will make working with STM32 microcontrollers easier, allowing developers to bring edge AI technology to market faster.

Ricardo De Sa Earp, executive vice president...

2 February 2023 | AI

BrainChip calls for application-based benchmarks in edge AI

Neuromorphic AI chip developer BrainChip believes better metrics are needed to iron out the limitations of current industry-standard performance benchmarks in edge AI.

The company’s findings, part of a new whitepaper, suggest that metrics need to be continually refined upon to measure performance and efficiency in real-world edge deployments.

BrainChip also posits that its neuromorphic processors help to increase performance at low-power while reducing latency. It sees...

24 January 2023 | AI

Quadric and Ams Osram build smart sensor solutions for the edge

Edge AI chip developer Quadric has partnered with optical solutions company Ams Osram to work on a smart sensing solution for edge applications.

Combining Quadric’s Chimera neural processors with Ams Osram’s CMOS sensors, the two companies have developed a smart sensing module with machine learning and image capture capabilities.

The Ams Osram Mira220 CMOS image sensor is built for either 2D or 3D industrial and consumer machine vision use...

14 January 2023 | AI

Kneron bags £42m funding for next-gen AI hardware solutions

Full-stack edge AI developer Kneron has secured £42.5 million in a Series B funding round led by Horizon Ventures.

New investors joining the round included LITEON, an electronics and power solutions firm, as well as ADATA, a memory compute provider. The new round brings Kneron’s total funding to slightly more than £124 million.

The company plans to use the funds to accelerate its research and development to produce next-gen AI inference modules.

Albert Liu,...

24 October 2022 | AI

Blaize partners with Innovatrics on edge AI facial recognition solution

Edge AI computing firm Blaize has partnered with biometric solutions company Innovatrics to develop a low power, edge-optimised facial recognition technology.

Running on Blaize’s edge devices, Innovatrics SmartFace Embedded has been designed for access control and public security applications such as face detection, facial landmarks, and face template extraction.

Users can combine specific processes and deselect others to maintain a small footprint and use minimal...

17 May 2022 | AI

BrainChip and SiFive partner on next-generation edge AI chips

BrainChip, the first commercial producer of low power neuromorphic AI chips, and SiFive, a RISC-V hardware producer, have combined their technologies to bring optimised AI/ML compute to the edge.

BrainChip’s Akida is an advanced neural networking processor architecture that brings AI to the edge. It is specialised to learn like the human brain, a niche that has helped the company’s growth.

As it analyses only essential sensor inputs at the point of acquisition, it...

21 April 2022 | AI

NVIDIA Orin raises the bar for edge AI across MLPerf benchmarks

NVIDIA has set new records in AI inference and per-accelerator performance at the edge with its on-chip system based on NVIDIA Ampere architecture, the NVIDIA Orin.

Debuting its MLPerf benchmarks, the Orin accelerator showcased the highest performance and largest base for running all machine-learning workloads and scenarios.

In terms of edge AI, a pre-production version of the NVIDIA Orin came out on top in five of the six performance tests. It ran up to five times...

8 April 2022 | AI

Syntiant raises £42m to scale its global edge AI chip provision

Syntiant, a leading edge AI chip developer, has closed $55 million (£42m) in a series D funding round, bringing total investment in the company to $120 million (£91m) since its founding in 2017.

The Silicon Valley-based firm bagged five new investors including Renesas Electronics, Millennium Technology Value Partners, and Mirae Asset Capital, amongst others.

“We are at a pivotal point of our company’s growth and development, having shipped more than 20 million of...

31 March 2022 | AI

Quadric pulls in £16m for on-device edge AI processing platform

Quadric, developers of an edge processing platform optimised for on-device AI at the network edge, have raised $21 million (£16m) in a Series B funding round.

Led by NSITEXE, the round also saw major new investment from MegaChips alongside existing investors Leawood VC, Pear VC, Uncork Capital, and Cota Capital.

Quadric’s platform is capable of handling neural backbones alongside classical dynamic data-parallel algorithms in a unified architecture. Whilst most other...