Ambarella, Inc. announced its new Artificial Intelligence Image Signal Processor (AISP). The company is showcasing this technology at its invitation-only event during CES 2022 in Las Vegas this week, running on its CV2 edge AI perception systems on chip (SoCs). Drawing on its 17 years of experience in ISP processing and best-in-class CVflow AI engine, […]
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High-precision radar sensor targets automotive ADAS apps
In an effort to move autonomous driving and vehicle safety forward, Texas Instruments announced an expansion of its automotive offerings that can help automakers improve how advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) sense objects. TI’s new AWR2944 radar sensor adds to the company’s extensive portfolio of analog and embedded processing products and technologies, giving automotive engineers more […]
Software platform enables compact AI models on existing edge hardware
Deeplite announced Deeplite Runtime (DeepliteRT), a new addition to its platform that makes AI models even smaller and faster in production deployment, without compromising accuracy. Customers will benefit from lower power consumption, reduced costs and the ability to utilize existing Arm CPUs to run AI models. As organizations look to include more edge devices in […]
Android smart module includes SoC for AI IoT apps
Quectel Wireless Solutions has announced the launch of the SG865W-WF, a new generation of flagship Android smart modules. The module is equipped with Qualcomm’s QCS8250 system-on-chip (SoC), which offers powerful performance and rich multimedia functions to meet industrial and consumer Artificial Intelligence IoT (AIoT) scenarios. AIoT deployments have greater requirements for high computing power, AI […]
BLE SoC includes power amp, high-sensitivity receiver
Infineon Technologies AG is launching the AIROC CYW20829 Bluetooth LE system on chip (SoC). The AIROC CYW20829 Bluetooth LE SoC is a Bluetooth 5.3 core spec-compliant device for IoT, smart home, and industrial applications. With the right combination of low power and high performance, AIROC CYW20829 is designed to support the entire spectrum of Bluetooth Low […]
COMs feature latest high-performance Intel cores
congatec introduces the 12th Generation Intel Core mobile and desktop processors (formerly code-named Alder Lake) on 10 new COM-HPC and COM Express Computer-on-Modules. Featuring the latest high performance cores from Intel, the new modules in COM-HPC Size A and C, as well as COM Express Type 6 form factors, offer major performance gains and improvements […]
Quantifying embedded MCU energy consumption
There are several methods and benchmarks for quantifying the energy consumption of embedded microcontroller units (MCUs) and related energy consumption benchmarks for common peripheral functions such as Bluetooth low energy and Wi-Fi. Over time, MCU designs have changed to support the demand for higher energy efficiency. In addition, there is another world of energy consumption […]
UWB SoC features ultra-low power use
Mauna Kea Semiconductors announced the closing of Series Pre-A+ funding totaling $12.8 million led by Lightspeed China Partners with participation by marquee investors Qiming Venture and Ivy Capital. Guided by its mission to enable ubiquitous high-precision sensing, MKSemi also launched its new product MK8000 system on a chip (SoC), the world’s lowest power, highest integrated chip solution, currently […]
AI domain controller SoCs handle multi-sensor perception in ADAS, L4 AVs
Ambarella, Inc. announced during CES the CV3 AI domain controller family. This fully scalable, power-efficient CVflow family of SoCs provides the automotive industry’s highest AI processing performance, at up to 500 eTOPS, representing a 42x increase over Ambarella’s prior automotive family. Featuring up to 16 Arm Cortex-A78AE CPU cores, the CV3 provides up to a […]
INS, GNSS/RTK modules target ADAS, AV applications requiring ASIL-B
ACEINNA Inc. announced the INS401 INS and GNSS/RTK solution for autonomous vehicle precise positioning. The INS401 is part of ACEINNA’s new product portfolio that provides high accuracy and high integrity localization for developers and manufacturers of ADAS and Autonomy solutions for autonomous vehicles of all types. The INS401 is a state-of-the-art, high-performance Inertial Navigation System […]
