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FotoNation and SEMIFIVE Announce Strategic Collaboration for Turnkey Development of TriSilica Perceptual AI Chip Family Using Samsung Foundry

Collaboration to accelerate the commercialization of FotoNation’s ultra-low-power sensor-fusion SoCs for edge AI applications GALWAY, Ireland, and SEOUL, South Korea – May 11 th , 2026 – FotoNation Ltd., a European-based Perception Recognition company and SEMIFIVE Inc., a leading global provider of custom AI semiconductor solutions, today announced a strategic collaboration agreement under which SEMIFIVE […]

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Scalable FPGA Prototyping for AI SoCs: Handling Massive Parallelism and Bandwidth

This blog post was originally published at Tessolve’s website. It is reprinted here with the permission of Tessolve. Creating an AI System-on-Chip (SoC) today resembles conducting a thousand musicians playing different melodies at once; each note, or data stream, must align perfectly. As AI workloads become increasingly complex, prototyping these SoCs on FPGA (Field Programmable

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NPX6 NPU IP Accelerates Physical AI SoC Performance

To meet the evolving performance and power-efficiency needs of generative AI (GenAI) and Physical AI models targeting for AI-driven SoCs, Synopsys has announced an enhanced version of its silicon-proven ARC® NPX6 NPU IP family of AI accelerators. These enhanced NPU IPs, which are software-compatible with existing NPX6 IP families, include: AI Data Compression: An enhanced

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FotoNation Completes a Pre-A Round to Fund the Development of its TriSilica Chip Lead by Enterprise Ireland and Silicon Gardens

GALWAY, Ireland, May 7, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — FotoNation® LTD., a Galway-based company, announced it has closed its Pre-A round led by Enterprise-Ireland and Silicon Gardens, with participation from other notable Angels. This capital will accelerate FotoNation’s mission to develop its TriSilica® product: an ultra-low-power, perception-AI chip. Specifically, the funds will be used to progress the completion of the MPW prototype,

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Gateworks and NXP Powers the Future of the Industrial Edge with M.2 AI Acceleration Card

This news blog post was originally published at NXP Semiconductors’ website. It is reprinted here with the permission of NXP Semiconductors. Gateworks, an NXP Gold Partner, is a leader in embedded computing solutions for edge AI and industrial connectivity. Bringing decades of experience and deep integration within NXP’s ecosystem, Gateworks delivers USA-made, industrial-grade platforms, complemented

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New Synopsys.ai Copilots Deliver 2–5× Faster Chip Design Productivity

AI-assisted semiconductor design and verification is no longer just a concept. It is now a full-fledged reality that is delivering remarkable productivity gains. Five new Synopsys.ai Copilot assistants and advisors are now commercially available, putting expert-level guidance and creativity at engineers’ fingertips. Thousands of users across leading semiconductor companies are already harnessing this first-of-its-kind generative AI technology to

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Accelerating AI Innovation at the Edge with the Ara240 Discrete Neural Processing Unit (NPU)

This blog post was originally published at NXP Semiconductors’ website. It is reprinted here with the permission of NXP Semiconductors. As AI workloads grow with larger, multimodal models and on-device generative and agentic AI, edge systems need more than incremental compute. They require dedicated acceleration for real-time performance, lower power, strong data privacy, and scalability. The Ara240

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Addressing Technical Challenges in Next-Gen Smart Lock Design

This blog post was originally published at Renesas’ website. It is reprinted here with the permission of Renesas. From Connectivity Standards Alliance’s Matter™ and Aliro™ to Biometric Authentication The growing demand for secure, easy-to-use, and seamlessly integrated access solutions is driving smart locks to the forefront of residential and commercial access control. Expansion of smart home

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Modern Trends in Floating-Point

This blog post was originally published at Imagination Technologies’ website. It is reprinted here with the permission of Imagination Technologies. The requirement to support real numbers in computers has existed for as long as computers themselves, yet has always been a more complicated challenge than it at first appears. Why? Because computer-based representations can only represent

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Beyond the Bench: Reinventing Embedded Hardware with Grinn

This video was originally published at Peridio’s website. It is reprinted here with the permission of Peridio. In this episode of Beyond the Bench from Peridio, Bill Brock sits down with Robert Otręba, Founder & CEO of Grinn, a Poland-based embedded engineering company operating for nearly 18 years. Robert shares how Grinn grew from a two-person

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