Stephen Su, Senior Product Manager at Arm, presents the “Arm Cortex-M Series Processors Spark a New Era of Use Cases, Enabling Low-cost, Low-power Computer Vision and Machine Learning” tutorial at the May 2022 Embedded Vision Summit. The Arm Cortex-M processor family of microcontrollers is designed and optimized for cost- and…

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Join Capital leads Seed+ as Opteran delivers genuine brain biomimicry inspired by insects

London, June 23 2022 – Opteran, the Natural Intelligence company, has secured $12 million in funding led by Join Capital, with additional funding from IQ Capital, Northern Gritstone, Seraphim, Episode 1 and Schauenburg Ventures. In the next two years, Opteran will expand rapidly across international markets, commercializing a completely new standard for machine autonomy called Opteran Natural Intelligence. This approach re-engineers insect brain patterns to solve the fundamental limitations of current state-of-the-art artificial intelligence (AI) and introduce the third wave of AI: genuine brain biomimicry.

Enabling global expansion

Having already delivered stabilized vision, collision avoidance and navigation, Opteran will use this funding round to boost product development and enable further international expansion. Opteran will open offices in the United States to support a growing number of customer pilots, and in 2023, it will add natural brain decision-making for machines. Opteran is also working to deliver hyperspectral vision, natural brain image recognition and dynamic learning based on inputs from the surrounding environment.

“Opteran has built the AI technology required to transform autonomous machines beyond today’s limited use in restricted scenarios to enable more widespread adoption,” said Sebastian von Ribbentrop, Founding Partner, Join Capital. “We don’t often see companies with a vision and product of this magnitude, and it is clear to us that Opteran Natural Intelligence will be the differentiator for every sector implementing autonomy in machines. We’re thrilled to have this type of global disruptor in our portfolio.”

A new standard for autonomous machines

A recent academic article in Science Robotics, co-authored by Opteran Chief Scientific Officer James Marshall, highlighted how insects use embodied cognition to move around in complex, dynamic and often hostile environments. Autonomous machines must be able to interact with the world in a similar way to nature. Opteran can provide this type of real-time situational awareness for structured and unstructured environments by mimicking the function of animal brains. This delivers an energy efficient, robust and safe solution to deal with complicated visual and navigational challenges of autonomous machines, creating a new general standard.

“By mimicking Nature’s genius to enable machines to move like natural creatures we are redefining the global market for machine autonomy,” said David Rajan, CEO, Opteran. “We expect Opteran Natural Intelligence to become the standard solution for autonomy anywhere on the ground or in the air, on any machine, large or ultra small, because it combines such sophisticated natural brain capabilities in a light-weight, efficient package.”

Since its launch in 2020, Opteran has demonstrated its ground-based system, Hopper, and its 700g Opteran aerial reference drone. It has also piloted its technology with international customers in the USA, South Africa and Europe, who are developing collision avoidance and navigation capabilities in cobot arms, drones, and mining robots. Sean Mitchell, founder and CEO, Movidius has joined as Chairman, while AI expert and co-founder Amazon Prime Air, Gur Kimchi, has been appointed an advisor, and Rafferty Jackson, former head of global strategy at Beats, is a Non-Executive Director.

About Opteran: Intelligence is natural

Opteran moves beyond today’s Deep Learning AI to re-engineer 600 million years of evolution in insect brains onto a silicon chip. This breakthrough enables machines to see, sense, navigate and make autonomous decisions with a smaller, lighter and more efficient solution that operates off-network without training.

For more information, please go to: www.opteran.com

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Chetan Khona, Director of Industrial, Vision, Healthcare and Sciences Markets at AMD, presents the “Introducing the Kria Robotics Starter Kit: Robotics and Machine Vision for Smart Factories” tutorial at the May 2022 Embedded Vision Summit. A robot is a system of systems with diverse sensors and embedded processing nodes focused…

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New 13 MP autofocus camera from IDS

June 22, 2022 – With uEye XC, IDS Imaging Development Systems GmbH is launching an industrial camera with autofocus that is just as easy to operate as a webcam. Setting up and commissioning the 13 MP USB3 camera only requires a cable connection. It then immediately delivers high-resolution, detailed images and videos. Unlike webcams from the consumer sector, uEye XC is specially designed for industrial requirements. Its components score with long availability – a must for industrial applications. It is used, for example, in kiosk systems, logistics, in the medical sector and in robotics applications.

Thanks to the integrated autofocus module, the Vision standard-compliant USB3 camera can easily manage changing object distances. In terms of appearance, it is distinguished by its elegant and lightweight magnesium housing. With dimensions of only 32 x 61 x 19 mm (W x H x D) and screwable USB Micro B connection, the camera can be easily integrated into image processing systems. Its 13 MP onsemi sensor delivers 20 fps at full resolution and ensures high image quality even in changing light conditions thanks to BSI (“Back Side Illumination”) pixel technology. Useful functions such as 24x digital zoom, auto white balance and color correction ensure that all details can be captured perfectly. With the IDS peak software development kit, users can configure the camera specifically for their application if required.

From process and quality assurance to kiosk systems, logistics automation and medical technology: the autofocus camera can be used in a variety of ways in both industrial and non-industrial areas. With the quick-change macro attachment lens, users can easily shorten the minimum object distance of the camera. This makes it also suitable for close-up applications, such as diagnostics.

Learn more: https://en.ids-imaging.com/ueye-xc-autofocus-camera.html

About IDS Imaging Development Systems GmbH

IDS Imaging Development Systems GmbH is a leading manufacturer of industrial cameras and pioneer in industrial image processing. The owner-managed company develops modular concepts of powerful and versatile USB, GigE and 3D camera as well as models with Artificial Intelligence (AI). The almost unlimited range of applications covers multiple non-industrial and industrial sectors of equipment, plant and mechanical engineering. The AI image processing platform IDS NXT is extremely versatile and opens up new areas of application where classic rule-based image processing reaches its limits. With visionpier, IDS operates an online marketplace that brings together suppliers of ready-made image processing solutions and interested end customers in a targeted manner.

Since its foundation in 1997 as a two-man company, IDS has developed into an independent, ISO and environmentally certified family business with around 350 employees. The headquarters in Obersulm, Germany, is both a development and production site. With branches and representative offices in the USA, Japan, South Korea, the UK, France and the Netherlands, the technology company is also globally represented.

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Improvements in Feature Extraction and Data Training Create Even Lower Power Dissipation for Remote Monitoring of Industrial Machinery

Irvine, Calif., June 21, 2022 — Syntiant Corp., a provider of deep learning solutions making edge AI a reality for always-on applications, and Denmark-based CeramicSpeed, one of the world’s leading manufacturers of ceramic bearing products, today announced advancements to its ongoing collaboration to develop ultra-low-power autonomous sensors for Industrial IoT applications using the Syntiant® NDP120 Neural Decision Processor.

Code named the Bearing Brain Project, CeramicSpeed is offering remote monitoring of industrial machinery with NDP120-embedded wireless sensors that will use AI to learn, detect and respond to operational anomalies at sub-milliwatt power consumption.

“Since we first announced our collaboration with Syntiant, we focused on building a dataset to train the NDP120,” said Morten Opprud, the tech lead of the project at CeramicSpeed. “We also redesigned the mechanics and hardware of the sensor to improve measurement sensitivity and updated firmware to further decrease power drain, while also improving the feature extraction and labeling of the utterances. The result is a low cost, simple solution utilized in a wide range of applications beyond the 10 percent of mission critical use cases. This allows an increase of the predictive maintenance coverage resulting in a more optimized maintenance strategy.”

The companies, which announced the collaboration agreement in January during CES 2022, are currently field testing the ultra-low power autonomous sensors with selected partners using the NDP120, Syntiant’s second-generation processor that can run multiple applications simultaneously at under 1mW (milliwatt).

“Our teams have been working diligently to enhance sensor functionality and minimize power consumption,” said Kurt Busch, CEO of Syntiant. “Our condition-based monitoring device as a result of our collaboration with CeramicSpeed features vibration sensors and accelerometers, exponentially improving battery life, providing customers with a higher degree of automation that improves performance, productivity and efficiency across a wide range of industrial and manufacturing applications.”

About Syntiant

Founded in 2017 and headquartered in Irvine, Calif., Syntiant Corp. is a leader in delivering end-to-end deep learning solutions for always-on applications by combining purpose-built silicon with an edge-optimized data platform and training pipeline. Syntiant’s advanced chip solutions merge deep learning with semiconductor design to produce ultra-low-power, high performance, deep neural network processors for edge AI applications across a wide range of consumer and industrial use cases, from earbuds to automobiles. The company is backed by several of the world’s leading strategic and financial investors including Intel Capital, Microsoft’s M12, Applied Ventures, Robert Bosch Venture Capital, the Amazon Alexa Fund and Atlantic Bridge Capital. Syntiant continues to be recognized as an industry leader, being named to Gartner’s Cool Vendors in AI Semiconductors; tinyML Summit’s Best Product of the Year; Fast Company’s prestigious list of the World’s Most Innovative Companies; as well as a CES® Innovation Awards Honoree and CES® Best of Innovation Awards Honoree. More information on the company can be found by visiting www.syntiant.com or by following Syntiant on Twitter @Syntiantcorp.

About CeramicSpeed

Established in 2004, CeramicSpeed is one of the world’s leading manufacturers of ceramic bearing products and optimized racing chains for the cycling industry. Based in Denmark, the company has offices across Europe, Asia and the United States and distributes its products to more than 50 countries for use in consumer and industrial applications. The company also is the only bearings producer to receive FDA approval for direct contact with food products. More information can be found by visiting https://www.ceramicspeed.com.

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Highlights:

• End-to-end AI software offering improves the developer experience by providing richer access to Qualcomm Technologies’ AI software capabilities within one unified software stack

• OEMs and developers will now have access to Qualcomm AI Stack to fully unleash the AI power of the Connected Intelligent Edge products – which includes smartphones, IoT, automotive, XR, cloud, and mobile PC – enabling higher performance by using a singular AI software package

• Qualcomm AI Stack provides OEMs and developers with a powerful AI foundation upon which they can develop an assortment of products

Jun 22, 2022 | SAN DIEGO | Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. today announced Qualcomm® AI Stack portfolio, accelerating the company’s leadership in artificial intelligence (AI) and the Connected Intelligent Edge. Combining and improving its best-in-class AI software offerings, Qualcomm AI Stack is a comprehensive AI solution for OEMs and developers, supporting a wide range of intelligent devices with broad AI software access and compatibility. For the first time, a single AI software portfolio works across Qualcomm Technologies-powered devices, spanning the wide range of Connected Intelligent Edge products – including mobile, automotive, XR, compute, IoT, and cloud platforms.

Qualcomm AI Stack supports different AI frameworks and popular runtimes including TensorFlow, PyTorch and ONNX, developer libraries and services, system software, tools, and compilers so that any AI feature developed for one device can easily be deployed on others.

“This comprehensive Qualcomm AI Stack portfolio is a truly revolutionary step in improving AI development for OEMs and developers and achieving high performance across our product portfolio,” said Ziad Asghar, vice president of product management, Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. “We’re delighted to extend our one technology roadmap with this new portfolio and expand our leadership in the Connected Intelligent Edge.”

This comprehensive portfolio provides direct access to the Qualcomm® AI Engine and dedicated AI cores on Qualcomm® Cloud AI 100 using Qualcomm® AI Engine direct. As part of the new offering, the Qualcomm AI Engine direct will now scale across every AI accelerator inside a comprehensive range of Qualcomm Technologies products. Qualcomm AI Engine direct is an AI library that delegates and deploys existing models directly to the AI accelerators on Qualcomm Technologies platforms and will now provide OEMs and developers the ability to develop one feature, then move the same model across different products and tiers.

“Qualcomm Technologies continues to deliver advanced AI solutions that make it easier for developers to leverage today’s most powerful AI and ML capabilities,” said Yuan Yu, Distinguished Engineer for AI Frameworks Architecture at Microsoft. “We’re enthusiastic to bring Qualcomm AI Software technologies to developers in our ecosystems, including the Qualcomm Neural Processing SDK for Windows, to offer edge-to-cloud AI capabilities by providing unified, comprehensive AI software that scales from clients to servers.”

The Qualcomm AI Stack portfolio will also include a suite of tools, including Qualcomm® AI Model Efficiency Toolkit (AIMET), AI development graphical user interface (GUI), model analyzers to foster enhanced quantization and optimization, and Neural Architecture Search (NAS). As announced at Snapdragon Tech Summit 2021, Qualcomm Technologies and Google Cloud integrated Google Cloud Vertex AI NAS, which enables OEMs and the ecosystem to create, test, and deploy unique and efficient experiences on the edge. The Qualcomm Neural Processing SDK remains a key product for OEMs and developers to run their neural networks on a broad range of Qualcomm Technologies’ products and will continue to receive regular updates and support. This collective will give Qualcomm Technologies a baseline to create domain-specific SDKs to deploy across the Connected Intelligent Edge.

Qualcomm AI Stack is commercially available now. To learn more about the Qualcomm AI Stack portfolio, visit: https://www.qualcomm.com/products/technology/artificial-intelligence/ai-stack, and read our OnQ Blog Post.

About Qualcomm

Qualcomm is the world’s leading wireless technology innovator and the driving force behind the development, launch, and expansion of 5G. When we connected the phone to the internet, the mobile revolution was born. Today, our foundational technologies enable the mobile ecosystem and are found in every 3G, 4G and 5G smartphone. We bring the benefits of mobile to new industries, including automotive, the internet of things, and computing, and are leading the way to a world where everything and everyone can communicate and interact seamlessly.

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Prism AI software for automotive thermal perception system development allows for faster integration, testing, and time-to-market

GOLETA, Calif. and New Orleans, LA., June 21, 2022 ― Teledyne FLIR, part of Teledyne Technologies Incorporated, today announced the release of Prism AI, a software framework that provides classification, object detection, and object tracking, enabling perception engineers to quickly start integrating thermal cameras for advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) and autonomous vehicle (AV) systems. Built for automotive perception system developers, Prism includes features such as visible-and-thermal image fusion and advanced thermal image processing capabilities that provide superior pedestrian and animal detection in challenging lighting conditions. This feature is especially effective at night, which is when more than 79 percent of pedestrian deaths occurred in 2020.

“The Prism AI software model has performed successfully in third-party, NCAP automatic emergency braking (AEB) tests and will now help perception engineers create more effective systems,” said Michael Walters, vice president product management, Teledyne FLIR. “Combining the Prism AI development tools, plugins, and dataset development offers integrators a route to quickly test and decrease development cost for thermal-enabled ADAS or AV that will help save lives.”

Developers can use Prism AI as the primary perception software or as reference software during in-house development. A suite of Prism AI tools provides simplified data integration with the recently released Teledyne FLIR Conservator data lifecycle management software as well as the industry’s largest thermal-and-visible training dataset. Compatible with Teledyne FLIR market-leading thermal cameras including Boson^®, Tau^® 2, and the FLIR ADK, Prism AI also includes production-required features including authentication between the thermal camera and the electronic control unit, further simplifying development.

By providing the basis for efficient perception model development, Prism AI can also help lower compute cost for commonly used desktop and embedded processors from NVIDIA, Ambarella, Qualcomm, and more. Paired with the Teledyne FLIR expert technical services team available for integration support, perception engineers from academia to OEMs now have a complete ecosystem to build thermal-enabled ADAS and AV systems.

In the United States, preliminary data from the first half of 2021 from the Governors Highway Safety Association estimated a 17 percent increase in pedestrian fatalities compared to the previous year and a 46 percent jump from 2011. Thermal-enhanced ADAS and AV systems can play a crucial role in driving down the unacceptable number of pedestrian traffic fatalities and will aid automotive OEMs to meet upcoming regulatory testing procedures that include nighttime pedestrian front crash prevention.

The Teledyne FLIR Prism AI software is available for purchase globally from Teledyne FLIR. To learn more visit https://www.flir.com/prism.

For an exclusive in-person first look at the Prism AI, please visit booth #1418 at CVPR, June 21-23, 2022, in New Orleans, Louisiana.

About Teledyne FLIR

Teledyne FLIR, a Teledyne Technologies company, is a world leader in intelligent sensing solutions for defense and industrial applications with approximately 4,000 employees worldwide. Founded in 1978, the company creates advanced technologies to help professionals make better, faster decisions that save lives and livelihoods. For more information, please visit www.teledyneflir.com or follow @flir.

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Inceptio Technology Selects Ambarella’s Edge AI SoCs for Multi-Camera Perception Processing in the Automotive-Grade Central Computing Platform

SANTA CLARA, Calif., June 22, 2022 — Ambarella, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMBA), an edge AI semiconductor company, and Inceptio Technology, an autonomous driving truck technology and operation company, today announced that Inceptio selected two each of Ambarella’s CV2FS and CV2AQ edge AI systems on chip (SoCs)—a total of four CVflow® SoCs—for its automotive-grade central computing platform. This platform is at the core of Inceptio’s full-stack XUANYUAN autonomous driving system for trucks, where Ambarella’s SoCs provide high-performance and low-power processing simultaneously for seven 8MP cameras, including AI compute, for surround camera perception and front ADAS safety features like collision avoidance.

“Globally, there were over 223 million registered commercial vehicles (light-duty to heavy-duty) by the end of 2021,” stated Susan Beardslee, ABI Research’s Principal Analyst for Supply Chain Management & Logistics. “Inceptio’s adoption of Ambarella’s CVflow AI processors, initially designed in SAE L3 autonomous trucks jointly developed by Inceptio and its OEM partners, provide fleet operations with critically needed advanced collision avoidance. We expect over 4.2 million SAE Level 2-4 commercial vehicles to ship worldwide in 2030.” (1)

“We chose Ambarella’s SoCs due to their advanced imaging capabilities and high performance in AI processing at low power, as well as the company’s strong cooperation and support,” said Gary Huang, EVP of Inceptio Technology. “The highly efficient architecture of Ambarella’s CV2 SoCs contributes to the excellent performance when running our advanced 3D computer vision algorithms. Inceptio Technology and our OEM partners started the mass production of L3 trucks at the end of 2021, and we will continue to optimize and iterate our autonomous driving technologies and products, while expanding our OEM cooperation and the application of vehicle platforms. We are very pleased to be working with Ambarella and look forward to exploring new opportunities together in the near future.”

“We were honored to partner with Inceptio on their L3 autonomous trucks and help their XUANYUAN AD system achieve over 2 million kilometers of real-world operation,” said Fermi Wang, President and CEO of Ambarella. “Our CVflow edge AI SoCs provide Inceptio with high-performance AI processing to implement advanced computer vision and neural network algorithms, industry-leading image signal processing for maximum clarity in challenging lighting conditions and the industry’s best performance per watt, enabling Inceptio to stay well within their thermal and power budgets.”

Ambarella’s ASIL-C certified CV2FS SOCs are deployed to perform collision avoidance while addressing the system requirement for functional safety. Additionally, Ambarella’s QM qualified CV2AQ SoCs are doing segmentation and object detection, including traffic lanes and signs.

Availability

Inceptio’s XUANYUAN autonomous driving system is available now, as are Ambarella’s CV2FS and CV2AQ edge AI SoCs.

About Ambarella

Ambarella’s products are used in a wide variety of human and computer vision applications, including video security, advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS), electronic mirror, drive recorder, driver/cabin monitoring, autonomous driving and robotics applications. Ambarella’s low-power systems-on-chip (SoCs) offer high-resolution video compression, advanced image processing and powerful deep neural network processing to enable intelligent perception, fusion and central processing systems to extract valuable data from high-resolution video and radar streams. For more information, please visit www.ambarella.com.

About Inceptio

Inceptio Technology’s mission is to build safer and more efficient line-haul logistics by providing industry-leading autonomous driving technologies for trucks and by operating a nationwide autonomous Transportation-As-A-Service (TaaS) freight network. For this mission, we develop full-stack proprietary autonomous driving technologies and work seamlessly with the automotive industry in preloading our technologies and systems into mass-produced autonomous trucks. By the end of April 2022, the Inceptio autonomous trucks with XUANYUAN inside achieved more than 2 million kilometers of commercial shipping operations. For more information, please visit www.inceptio.ai.

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The company’s latest chipset offers device makers another high-performance option for flagship smartphones

HSINCHU, Taiwan – June 22, 2022 – MediaTek today announced the Dimensity 9000+, an enhancement to the company’s top-of-the-line 5G smartphone chipset. This new high-end offering delivers a boost in performance over the Dimensity 9000 to make the next generation of flagship smartphones even more powerful and efficient.

The new Dimensity 9000+ system-on-chip (SoC) integrates Arm’s v9 CPU architecture with a 4nm octa-core process, combining one ultra-Cortex-X2 core operating at up to 3.2GHz (compared to 3.05GHz with the Dimensity 9000) with three super Cortex-A710 cores and four efficiency Cortex-A510 cores. The advanced CPU architecture and Arm Mali-G710 MC10 graphics processor built into the new chipset provide more than a 5% boost in CPU performance and more than 10% improvement in GPU performance.

“Building on the success of our first flagship 5G chipset, the Dimensity 9000+ ensures that device makers always have access to the most advanced high-performance features and the latest mobile technologies, making it possible for their top-tier smartphones to stand out,” said Dr. Yenchi Lee, Deputy General Manager of MediaTek’s Wireless Communications Business Unit. “With a suite of top-tier AI, gaming, multimedia, imaging and connectivity features, the Dimensity 9000+ delivers faster gameplay, seamless streaming and an all-around better user experience.”

The Dimensity 9000+ is the latest addition to the Dimensity 9000 series of flagship smartphone chipsets, which are designed for the growing bandwidth demands of the mobile market. The integrated LPDDR5X supports 8MB L3 CPU cache and 6MB of system cache. Additionally, the chipset integrates MediaTek’s fifth generation Application Processor Unit (APU 5.0) for powerful AI computing capabilities in a power-efficient design.

Key features of the MediaTek Dimensity 9000+ include:

• MediaTek Imagiq 790: The flagship 18-bit HDR-ISP supports 320MP, as well as simultaneous triple camera 18-bit HDR video recording. The powerful 9Gpixel/s ISP also supports 4K HDR Video + AI noise reduction that enables the highest quality results even in extreme low-light scenarios.
• Leading 3GPP Release-16 5G Modem: The integrated 5G modem amplifies sub-6GHz performance up to 7Gbps downlink using 3CC Carrier Aggregation (300MHz) and supports R16 UL enhancement. The Dimensity 9000+ also integrates 5G/4G Dual SIM Dual Active support and MediaTek’s 5G UltraSave 2.0 power-saving enhancement suite for improved efficiency.
• MediaTek MiraVision 790: The Dimensity 9000+ supports the latest 144Hz WQHD+ displays or super-fast 180Hz FullHD+ displays, while optimizing power efficiency with MediaTek’s Intelligent Display Sync 2.0 technology. Furthermore, MediaTek’s latest Wi-Fi Display technology can support up to 4K60 HDR10+ video.
• Wi-Fi 6E, New GNSS with Beidou III-B1C and New Bluetooth 5.3: Smartphone users can enjoy seamless connectivity thanks to the chip’s support for the latest Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and GNSS standards.

Smartphones powered by the MediaTek Dimensity 9000+ are expected to be released in Q3 2022.

To learn more about MediaTek’s mobile platform, please visit: https://i.mediatek.com/mediatek-5g.

About MediaTek Inc.

MediaTek Incorporated (TWSE: 2454) is a global fabless semiconductor company that enables nearly 2 billion connected devices a year. We are a market leader in developing innovative systems-on-chip (SoC) for mobile device, home entertainment, connectivity and IoT products. Our dedication to innovation has positioned us as a driving market force in several key technology areas, including highly power-efficient mobile technologies, automotive solutions and a broad range of advanced multimedia products such as smartphones, tablets, digital televisions, 5G, Voice Assistant Devices (VAD) and wearables. MediaTek empowers and inspires people to expand their horizons and achieve their goals through smart technology, more easily and efficiently than ever before. We work with the brands you love to make great technology accessible to everyone, and it drives everything we do. Visit www.mediatek.com for more information.

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Combining Visionary.ai’s Camera Imaging Software and Innoviz’s LiDAR and Perception Software Enhances Performance in Low-Light Conditions

Jerusalem and Tel Aviv, Israel, June 22, 2022  – Visionary.ai, a developer of software-based image signal processor (ISP) technology, and Innoviz (NASDAQ: INVZ), a leading provider of high-performance, automotive-grade LiDAR sensors and perception software, today announced a new partnership to combine Visionary.ai’s imaging technology with Innoviz’s LiDAR sensors and perception software. Combined, the two technologies aim to improve 3D machine vision performance for a wide range of applications including robotics, smart cities, and drones.

Visionary.ai’s True Night Vision  technology leverages Artificial Intelligence (AI) to dramatically enhance image quality for machine vision, especially in challenging and low-light conditions. Whereas most cameras use a hardware ISP (image signal processor), Visionary.ai’s  revolutionary approach uses a software ISP to capture cutting-edge image quality, in real time.

Utilizing Innoviz’s high-resolution LiDAR, the partnership will add 3D image processing to Visionary.ai’s significantly advanced 2D ISP capabilities to develop and enhance a comprehensive 3D image of a scene.

Harnessing the two companies’ powerful technologies will deliver highly accurate 3D imaging, especially during challenging imaging conditions such as: extreme low light, High Dynamic Range (HDR), heavy rain or fog, high motion, and sudden changes in intensity, such as flashing headlights.

This collaboration comes at a time of rapid market growth for Innoviz. One of the largest global vehicle manufacturers recently selected Innoviz to become its direct LiDAR supplier across multiple brands, increasing Innoviz’s forward-looking order book by $4 billion to $6.6 billion USD.

Commenting on the partnership, Visionary.ai CEO Oren Debbi said, “Machine vision is easy to achieve in situations of good lighting, but 90% of machine vision failures occur in situations of difficult visibility, specifically, low light and HDR. By improving accuracy in difficult imaging circumstances, we’re able to offer game-changing technology, that together with Innoviz’s LiDAR technology can improve machine vision applications across many applications.”

“Visionary.ai’s software-based ISP enables cameras to achieve cutting-edge image quality in difficult conditions. Together with Innoviz’s LiDAR and Perception Software, we can improve detection performance even further,” said Omer Keilaf, CEO and Co-Founder at Innoviz.  “We are pleased to join forces to offer an advanced machine vision solution to many applications that need it for safety.”

About Visionary.ai

Visionary.ai empowers cameras to achieve the next generation of image quality. Their software-based ISP (Image Signal Processor) leverages AI on the Edge to achieve market-leading performance for a wide range of imaging tasks. Their technology has applications across several industries, including consumer electronics, drones, robotics, mobility, and medical imaging. For more information, visit www.visionary.ai.

About Innoviz Technologies

Innoviz is a global leader in LiDAR technology, working towards a future with safe autonomous vehicles on the world’s roads. Innoviz’s LiDAR and perception software “see” better than a human driver and reduce the possibility of error, meeting the automotive industry’s strictest expectations for performance and safety. Operating across the U.S., Europe, and Asia, Innoviz has been selected by internationally-recognized premium car brands for use in consumer vehicles as well as by other commercial and industrial leaders for a wide range of use cases. For more information, visit innoviz-tech.com.  Join the discussion: Facebook, LinkedIn, YouTube, Twitter

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Kristof Denolf, Principal Engineer, and Bader Alam, Director of Software Engineering, both of AMD, present the “Programming Vision Pipelines on AMD’s AI Engines” tutorial at the May 2022 Embedded Vision Summit. AMD’s latest generation of Adaptive Compute Acceleration Platforms (ACAP), Versal AI Core and Versal AI Edge, include an array…

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Rajy Rawther, PMTS Software Architect at AMD, presents the “Is Your AI Data Pre-processing Fast Enough? Speed It Up Using rocAL” tutorial at the May 2022 Embedded Vision Summit. AMD’s rocAL (ROCm Augmentation Library) is an open-source library for decoding and augmenting images, video and audio to accelerate the loading…

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Nico Galoppo, Principal Engineer (substituting for Ansley Dunn, Product Marketing Manager), and Ryan Loney, Technical Product Manager, both of Intel, present the “Optimization Techniques with Intel’s OpenVINO to Enhance Performance on Your Existing Hardware” tutorial at the May 2022 Embedded Vision Summit. Whether you’re using TensorFlow, PyTorch or another framework,…

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On-chip signal processing core, programmable with ST’s NanoEdge AI Studio, is ideal for machine-learning applications

16 Jun 2022 | Geneva | STMicroelectronics (NYSE: STM), a global semiconductor leader serving customers across the spectrum of electronics applications, has introduced new inertial sensors that contain the intelligent sensor processing unit (ISPU) to power the onlife era: interacting with trained devices with intelligence moving from “on” the edge to “in” the edge.

The ISM330ISN always-on 6-axis inertial measurement unit (IMU) for movement and position sensing uses its embedded intelligence to deliver unrivaled performance and accuracy for its size and power. Ideal for IoT and industrial applications, ST’s new IMU sets to accelerate response time and extend battery life in equipment such as condition monitors for predictive maintenance, as well as battery-operated asset trackers and industrial applications such as robots.

The intelligence built into the ISM330ISN enables smart devices to perform advanced motion-detection functions in the sensor without interaction with the external microcontroller (MCU), thus saving power at system level. ST’s approach integrates a specialized processor, the ISPU, in a small area directly on the sensor chip, optimized for machine-learning applications. This enables the ISM330ISN module to have a 50% smaller footprint and consume 50% less power than a typical co-packaged MCU.

Developers can program the ISPU using ST’s NanoEdge AI Studio, a market-proven ST tool that many customers have used to deploy AI applications on STM32 microcontrollers. This technology is now available for programming the ISPU, enabling users to easily generate automatically optimized machine-learning libraries. Designing an anomaly detection library with AI learning capability directly inside the ISPU is possible with minimal data and just a few clicks. No specific data-science skills are needed.

“Intelligence formerly implemented at the network edge, in an application processor, is now moving to the deep edge, inside the sensor,” said Simone Ferri, General Manager of Marketing, Analog MEMS and Sensors Group, STMicroelectronics. “Our ISM330ISN IMU heralds a new category of smart sensors, leveraging embedded AI to handle complex operations such as pattern recognition and anomaly detection with greatly increased efficiency and performance.”

While presenting new AI-powered creative opportunities, the ISM330ISN has the same 3mm x 2.5mm x 0.83mm package outline as conventional inertial modules. Hence designers can upgrade their products quickly and cost-effectively with no obligation to change an established circuit board layout.

The ISM330ISN is covered by ST’s 10-year longevity program, which provides long-term availability assurance for product designers and manufacturers.

Further technical information

The ISM330ISN is part of ST’s iNEMO family of IMUs. It contains a 3-axis accelerometer and 3-axis gyroscope with low-noise sensing performance, and an output data rate (ODR) of 6.6kHz. With the ISPU, the sensor ensures consistently high accuracy while consuming only 0.59mA in combination mode with the accelerometer and gyroscope active.

ST’s ISPU architecture, based on digital signal processing (DSP), is extremely compact and power-efficient, with 40Kbytes of RAM and occupying just 8000 gates on the sensor die. Performing floating-point operations with single-bit precision, ISPU is ideal for machine-learning applications and binary neural networks.

ST’s ISPU and the NanoEdge.AI tools have been shortlisted for the Embedded Award at Embedded World 2022, in the Hardware and Software categories respectively. The event takes place in Nuremberg, Germany, June 21-23. ST will be exhibiting during the show, at booth no. 148 hall 4A.

The ISM330ISN is scheduled to enter production in H2 2022 and will be available from st.com or distributors for $3.48 for orders of 1000 pieces. NanoEdge AI Studio enabling the creation of libraries designed for specific ISPU part numbers is available at no charge on ST.com. Please contact your local ST sales representative or visit www.st.com.

For more information please visit www.st.com/ispu.

You can also read our blogpost at https://blog.st.com/ism330is-onlife/

About STMicroelectronics

At ST, we are 48,000 creators and makers of semiconductor technologies mastering the semiconductor supply chain with state-of-the-art manufacturing facilities. An integrated device manufacturer, we work with more than 200,000 customers and thousands of partners to design and build products, solutions, and ecosystems that address their challenges and opportunities, and the need to support a more sustainable world. Our technologies enable smarter mobility, more efficient power and energy management, and the wide-scale deployment of the Internet of Things and connectivity. ST is committed to becoming carbon neutral by 2027. Further information can be found at www.st.com.

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After a long-standing, successful membership in the NVIDIA Partner Network, Basler AG is elevated to Elite partner-level status. The collaboration provides Basler customers with the opportunity to combine the NVIDIA Jetson platform with vision AI technology even more seamlessly and with an intensified level of support.

Ahrensburg, June 16, 2022 – Basler offers fully integrated hardware and software packages to combine the NVIDIA^® Jetson platform with vision technology. As of 01 June 2022, the company will now be elevated to the Elite level in the NVIDIA Partner Network (NPN). Elite status is exclusively available for ecosystem partner companies that have demonstrated the highest level of competency in NVIDIA GPU-accelerated technologies. The program includes early access for NVIDIA products and technologies, access to on-board Image Signal Processors (ISPs), as well as dedicated support channels to address technical issues. For customers this results in optimized time to market and leaner system setups.

Basler’s offerings with NVIDIA processing boards range from Add-on Camera Kits for the Jetson Nano and Jetson Xavier NX; ready-to-use prototyping kits including a defined cloud connectivity with Amazon Web Services; to full custom solutions combining Jetson AGX Xavier, Jetson TX2 and the latest Jetson AGX Orin and Jetson Orin NX with vision technology. In addition, Basler offers services such as application software development, embedded system design and manufacturing, as well as camera design and ISP tuning. Within Basler, a distinct team specializes in combining NVIDIA’s edge AI expertise with image processing, thereby creating lean systems for customer projects with vision capabilities.

”The strong collaboration with NVIDIA solidifies Basler’s capability to provide computer vision solutions, including advanced vision technology, industry-leading edge processing capabilities and application software,” says Dr. Dietmar Ley, CEO of Basler AG. “With full access to NVIDIA’s technology stack and leading edge AI platforms, Basler is able to help our customers deploy state-of-the-art edge AI vision solutions, opening doors for use cases such as autonomous mobile working machines and robotics.”

“NVIDIA Jetson is the world’s leading edge AI and robotics platform, with over a million developers, 6,000 customers and 150 ecosystem partners,” says Deepu Talla, VP of Embedded and Edge Computing at NVIDIA. “Basler’s global footprint as a computer vision supplier and proven track record of supporting Jetson-based products make the company an ideal partner in the NPN.”

Next week, Basler will be showcasing a demo with the new Jetson AGX Orin at “embedded world”, the leading tradeshow for embedded technology. The demo uses AI and vision technology to evaluate and classify bacteria samples thus automating and accelerating medical diagnosis. More information on Basler’s embedded vision solutions for the NVIDIA Jetson platform is available on the Basler website.

Basler is a leading international manufacturer of high-quality imaging components for computer vision applications. In addition to classic area scan and line scan cameras, lenses, frame grabbers, light modules, 3D products, and software, the company offers embedded vision solutions, that comprise consulting services, customer specific software development as well as customized products. Basler’s products are used in a variety of markets and applications, including factory automation, medical, logistics, retail, and robotics. They are characterized by high reliability, an excellent price/performance ratio, and long-term availability. Founded in 1988, the Basler Group employs around 1000 people at its headquarters in Ahrensburg and other locations in Europe, Asia, and North America. Thanks to its worldwide sales and service organization and cooperation with renowned partners, it offers solutions that fit for customers from a wide range of sectors.

For more information contact us by phone at +49 4102 463 500, by email at embedded.europe@baslerweb.com or via our website at www.baslerweb.com.

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Richard Chuang, Principal AI Engineer at Intel, presents the “Intel Video AI Box—Converging AI, Media and Computing in a Compact and Open Platform” tutorial at the May 2022 Embedded Vision Summit. As a system integrator, solution provider or AI developer, you need to run your AI applications efficiently at the…

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Cheng Wang, Senior Vice President and Co-founder of Flex Logix, presents the “High-Efficiency Edge Vision Processing Based on Dynamically Reconfigurable TPU Technology” tutorial at the May 2022 Embedded Vision Summit. To achieve high accuracy, edge computer vision requires teraops of processing to be executed in fractions of a second. Additionally,…

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EL DORADO HILLS, CA — June 15, 2022 — Blaize® today announced plans to demonstrate its Blaize Graph Streaming Processor (GSP®) architecture with partner companies exhibiting next week at Embedded World 2022 (June 21-23). Blaize has developed a next-generation computing architecture designed for AI workloads, which tackles the economic and technical barriers to widespread AI adoption by addressing energy, cost, and complexity challenges.

“Blaize delivers low power and low latency AI inference solutions at the edge, and members of our partner ecosystem will demonstrate at Embedded World the usefulness of our platform in smart city, smart retail, safety, and security applications,” said Barrie Mullins, Head of Marketing at Blaize. “Each partner demonstration at Embedded World shows how their technology seamlessly integrates into our cost-effective and flexible edge form factor solutions, making it easy to use.”

The following Blaize partners are showcasing Edge AI solutions based on the Blaize GSP architecture. These demonstrations also show how Blaize transforms AI edge computing with high-efficiency, low latency hardware built for AI workloads coupled with open and code-free AI software spanning the AI edge app lifecycle. As a result, Blaize enables new AI use cases and faster ROI of AI edge deployments in smart cities, retail, industrial automation, agricultural inspection, transportation, and healthcare and life sciences markets.

7StarLake   Hall 1-280 – Multi-camera object detection streaming into an IPC enabled by the Blaize Xplorer X1600P PCIe Accelerator, including a demo of Video Surveillance as a Service from Blaize partner Xompass.

Innovatrics   Hall 4-338 – Edge ready-to-deploy facial recognition technology powered by Blaize® Pathfinder P1600 Embedded System on Module (SoM).

Aetina   Hall 1-370 – Static display of the Blaize Xplorer X1600E EDSFF Small Form Factor Accelerator Platform ideal for accelerating AI applications at the edge.

The Embedded World Exhibition and Conference, known as the world’s largest gathering of embedded experts, starts on June 21 in Nuremberg, Germany. The exhibition covers all aspects of embedded technologies, offering the embedded community the opportunity to learn about new products and innovations.

About Blaize

Blaize leads new-generation computing, unleashing AI’s potential to enable leaps in the value technology delivers to improve the way we all work and live. Blaize offers transformative edge computing solutions for AI data collection and processing at the Edge of the network, focusing on smart vision applications including automobility, retail, security, industrial, and metro.

Blaize has secured US$155M in equity funding to date from strategic and venture investors Franklin Templeton, Temasek, DENSO, Daimler, SPARX Group, Magna, Samsung Catalyst Fund, GGV Capital, Wavemaker, and SGInnovate. With headquarters in El Dorado Hills (CA), Blaize has teams in Campbell (CA), Cary (NC), and subsidiaries in Hyderabad (India), Manila (Philippines), and Leeds and Kings Langley (UK), with 300+ employees worldwide. www.blaize.com

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Randy Allen, Vice President of Software at Flex Logix, presents the “Flex Logix InferX X1: Pairing Software and Hardware to Enable Edge Machine Learning” tutorial at the May 2022 Embedded Vision Summit. Machine learning is not new—the term was first coined in 1952. Its explosive growth over the past decade…

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Munich (Germany), June 14, 2022 – FRAMOS, a leading global supplier of custom vision solutions and imaging components, and AMD-Xilinx Certified Partner, has launched the FSM-IMX547 Camera Accessory for the recently introduced Kria KR260 Robotics Starter Kit from AMD.

The FSM-IMX547 is capable of streaming high-quality colour or monochrome images to the Kria KR260 robotics starter kit. The fully integrated camera kit is compatible with the 10GigE Vision Camera App, available for free evaluation and download at the AMD-Xilinx App Store. The camera kit enables developers to design their own high-performance, high-speed, and high-resolution machine vision applications.

Based on Sony’s Pregius S IMX547 1/1.8″ sensor, FRAMOS’s FSM-IMX547 Camera Accessory utilizes the 5 Megapixel global shutter CMOS image sensor to its fullest. It also leverages FRAMOS’s SLVS-EC Rx IP so that is runs smoothly and efficiently on the AMD-XILINX Kira FPGA via Sony’s SLVS-EC high speed interface. This allows the KR260 Robotics Starter Kit to stream at resolutions of up to 2472 x 2128 pixels at 120 fps, flawlessly. The included lens and lens mount ensure the best out-of-the-box experience while providing excellent image quality.

A Robotics Starter Kit for the Intelligent Factory of the Future

The AMD-XILINX Kria KR260 Robotics Starter Kit is a scalable  development platform for robotics and is the latest addition to the Kria portfolio of adaptive system-on-modules (SOMs) and developer kits. The Kria KR260 offers a seamless path to production deployment with the existing Kria K26 adaptive SOMs. It includes native ROS 2 support, a standard framework for robotics application development, and pre-built interfaces for robotics and industrial solutions.

This new SOM starter kit enables rapid development of hardware-accelerated applications for robotics, machine vision, and industrial communication and control. Customers who are working with the KR260 are encouraged to contact FRAMOS for a field hardened, ready to use SLVS-EC Core; tailor-made to any Sony SLVS-EC based sensor module of their choice.

Machine vision is becoming increasingly important in the field of robotics development, explains Nathan Dinning, Director of Product Management at FRAMOS. “The most demanding imaging projects in the robotics industry that require robust data transfer will leverage this technology to its full extent. The SLVS-EC high speed interface paired with the Kria KR260 is a powerful combination that will give Vision to a new age of robotics.”

Further information about the Kria KR260 Robotics Starter Kit is available at: https://www.xilinx.com/products/som/kria/kr260-robotics-starter-kit.html

Camera Kit for all Product Creation Phases

During the evaluation and proof-of-concept phases, developers can interface the Kria KR260 Robotics Starter Kit or other open processing platforms with the latest image sensor technology using the FSM-IMX547 Camera Accessory and its versatile adapter framework.

Reference implementations and sample applications from FRAMOS deliver images immediately after installation, supporting Linux V4L2 for easy integration. In the development phase, electrical design references and driver sources provide developers a solid and proven foundation for rapid porting to custom system designs or scope expansion – reducing development effort and risks.

Further Information

 The FSM-IMX547 Camera Accessory from FRAMOS is available from Mouser today. For more information and availability of the Kria KR260 Robotics Starter Kit, visit Kria KR260.

FRAMOS is proud to be presenting demos of the FSM-IMX547 Camera Kit at embedded world 2022 exhibition and conference (June 21-23, 2022, Nuremberg, Germany) at booth 2-555, located in Hall 2.

The monochrome version of the FSM-IMX547 Camera Kit is available on Mouser’s website here: https://www.mouser.com/ProductDetail/FRAMOS/FSM-IMX547M-C01-Bundle-V1B?qs=t7xnP681wgUuiwHkMIR1aA%3D%3D, while the Color version can be found here: https://www.mouser.com/ProductDetail/FRAMOS/FSM-IMX547C-C01-Bundle-V1B?qs=t7xnP681wgXCbtqkgAuwhQ%3D%3D.

About FRAMOS

FRAMOS is an imaging expert, trusted advisor, and vision solutions provider. Since 1981, FRAMOS implements the best current and emerging imaging technologies for specific customer requirements and applications. FRAMOS meets these requirements with advanced and proven imaging components from a global network of renowned partners, and with FRAMOS IP.

More than 180 FRAMOS employees world-wide are passionate about the unlimited potential of imaging and help customers achieve the optimum results from every possible scenario. FRAMOS drives and ensures the entire product development journey from POC, through prototyping, to mass production. FRAMOS carefully selects imaging components, like image sensors, lenses, or various 3D technologies, and offers custom developments tailored to individual needs and time frames. FRAMOS listens and understands customer challenges. With innovative solutions FRAMOS ensures successful project outcomes and develops long-term customer relations.

Find out more at www.framos.com or follow us on LinkedIn and Twitter

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