Synaptics and Google ML Core. Source: Synaptics
By Bolaji Ojo
What’s at stake:
Artificial intelligence is expanding fast from the large language models to “Edge AI,” where more chipmakers and equipment manufacturers expect to make a major impact by tying it up with Internet of Things (IoT). Companies are racing to offer AI at the Edge, but they are also collaborating with partners across the design chain. With their announced collaboration so early in the new year, Synaptics and Google are staking out a position they want the rest of the rest of the market to adopt.
Synaptics Inc. and Google Inc. have announced a collaboration to enhance Edge AI for the Internet of Things (IoT). This partnership aims to optimize multimodal processing for context-aware computing by integrating Google’s MLIR-compliant machine learning (ML) core with Synaptics Astra hardware, along with open-source software and tools.
The companies said their collaboration will accelerate the development of AI devices for IoT, supporting various modalities such as vision, image, voice, and sound for seamless interactivity in applications like wearables, appliances, entertainment, and more.