Texas Instruments unveils two new microcontroller units to support Edge AI applications
The MCUs are integrated with company’s TinyEngine NPU to speed up processing and cut energy use
The MCUs are integrated with company’s TinyEngine NPU to speed up processing and cut energy use
Each CPU contains up to 288 Efficiency-cores
System is size of carry on suitcase and contains up to four Nvidia H200s
Startup claims AIPU has set new performance benchmark
Follows acquisitions of Edge Impulse and Foundries.io
Offers on-device supports for LLMs and VLMs
Volumes of pirated content continue to grow
Company also updates its AI software suite, introduces new package options for MAX 10 FPGAs
Says will reduce TCO when compared to renting third-party AI infrastructure
First release from HC3000 product family
Second generation of the company’s MLSoC offering
Claims new AI accelerator provides 50 percent better inference than Nvidia H100
Company’s second-generation MLSoC due for release in 2025
Funding was extension of Series C round
New launches support Intel’s ‘AI Everywhere’ vision