This blog post was originally published at Synaptics’ website. It is reprinted here with the permission of Synaptics. Openness across software, standards, and silicon is critical for ensuring interoperability, flexibility, and the growth of AI at the edge AI continues to migrate towards the edge and is no longer confined to the datacenter. Edge AI brings […]
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This blog post was originally published at Synaptics’ website. It is reprinted here with the permission of Synaptics. There’s a growing tension in the world of connected products. On one side, engineers find themselves having to push microcontrollers far beyond their limits, resorting to bolted-on accelerators, extra parts and delicate pipelines just to keep pace
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San Jose, CA, October 15, 2025 – Synaptics® Incorporated (Nasdaq: SYNA) announces the new Astra™ SL2600 Series of multimodal Edge AI processors designed to deliver exceptional power and performance. The Astra SL2600 series enables a new generation of cost-effective intelligent devices that make the cognitive Internet of Things (IoT) possible. The SL2600 Series will launch
Featuring three power levels, the SR-Series MCUs scale Astra AI-Native hardware and open-source software to accelerate the development of low-power, cognitive IoT devices. Nuremberg, Germany, March 10, 2025 — Synaptics® Incorporated (Nasdaq: SYNA) has extended its award-winning Synaptics AstraTM AI-Native platform with the SR-Series high-performance adaptive microcontroller units (MCUs) for scalable context-aware Edge AI. The
The collaboration will integrate Google’s ML core with AstraTM AI-Native hardware and open-source software to accelerate the development of context-aware devices. San Jose, CA, January 2, 2025 – Synaptics® Incorporated (Nasdaq: SYNA) today announced that it is collaborating with Google on Edge AI for the IoT to define the optimal implementation of multimodal processing for context-aware
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SAN JOSE, Calif., Oct. 01, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Synaptics® Incorporated (Nasdaq: SYNA) today announced that its Synaptics Astra™ AI-native IoT compute platform won in the Machine Learning and Deep Learning category of the 2024 EDGE Awards. The annual awards from Endeavor Media celebrate outstanding innovation in product design and function for the engineering industry.
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Algorithm fully leverages VS680’s optimized NPU and market-leading TOPS for the AI efficiency, performance, and security required to enhance protected video in real time on edge devices. Amsterdam, The Netherlands, September 12, 2024 – b<>com and Synaptics® Incorporated (Nasdaq: SYNA) announced today that b<>com has implemented its market-proven *Sublima*™ algorithm on Synaptics’ VS680 multimedia system
Deepak Mital, Senior Director of Architectures at Synaptics, presents the “How to Run Audio and Vision AI Algorithms at Ultra-low Power” tutorial at the May 2024 Embedded Vision Summit. Running AI algorithms on battery-powered, low-cost devices requires a different approach to designing hardware and software. The power requirements are stringent at standby, but the device
Highly integrated Linux® and Android™ SoCs and dev kit are optimized for consumer, enterprise, and industrial applications and deliver an ‘out-of-the-box’ edge AI experience. San Jose, CA, April 8, 2024 – Synaptics® Incorporated (Nasdaq: SYNA) today launched the Synaptics Astra platform with the SL-Series of embedded AI-native Internet of Things (IoT) processors and the Astra
This blog post was originally published at Synaptics’ website. It is reprinted here with the permission of Synaptics. In a highly connected world, there is a need for more intelligent and secure computation locally and preferably on the very devices that capture data, whether it be raw or compressed video, images, or voice. End markets
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