Synaptics boosts edge AI with Israel buy
Synaptics is continuing its push into edge AI with the acquisition of Emza Visual Sense in Israel.
Emza develops ultra-low-power AI visual sensing technology and gives Synaptics access to the PC market for human presence detection (HPD) applications, supporting look-away detect and on-looker detect features.
Based in Giv’atayim, near Tel Aviv, the Emza team will become part of Synaptics Israel, in Herzliya. The terms of the deal were not disclosed.
This complements Synaptics’ Katana AI SoC platform for HPD applications in devices ranging from PCs, notebooks, and smart TVs, to assisted living cameras.
Synaptics already has a range of haptic sensors, fingerprint sensors and touchpad modules for PCs as well as USB4 display drivers, wireless chips and even fax and printer chips.
The deal follows a number of acquisitions including the DSP group and DisplayLink.
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- Eta Compute pivots to edge AI systems with Synaptics backing
- Synaptics adds USB4 with $305m DisplayLink deal
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“We’re very excited about integrating and scaling the Emza team’s expertise and technology across our business,” said Saleel Awsare, SVP & GM at Synaptics. “Bringing together key enabling technologies in edge hardware and algorithms for computer vision, audio, and security, while leveraging decades of experience and deep knowledge of customers’ requirements, will allow us to together rapidly deploy, scale, and re-define the HPD experience.”
A typical low-power smart vision architecture consists of a low-resolution image sensor coupled with an Edge AI SoC that is usually constrained with respect to compute and memory resources. Already deployed and field proven for a multitude of applications, Emza’s machine learning algorithms are designed for resource-constrained systems by maximizing AI inference per milliwatt for optimal visual sensing performance.
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