Researchers want to embrace Arm's celebrated paradigm for a universal generative AI processor; a puzzling MEGA.mini core architecture
At February 2025's International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC), researchers unveiled a new MEGA.mini architecture. Inspired by Arm’s celebrated "big.LITTLE" paradigm, this universal ...
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Synaptics Astra SR series Arm Cortex-M55 MCUs feature Arm Ethos-U55 NPU, low-power Cortex-M4 core with microNPU
Synaptics unveiled an extension to its Astra Native AI platform with the new SR series of MCUs. This new product family, ...
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What The Rise Of NPUs Means For The Future Of Compute Power
Unlike GPUs, NPUs require very low power. NPU’s power profile means that they don’t use up your battery as much as if you were to put the same workload on the other processing units.
Electronic Design9d
New Cortex-A Targets Edge AI
Arm’s low-end edge-computing solution combines the Cortex-M85 with an Ethos-U85 neural processing unit (NPU). The platform ...
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Adaptive MCUs deliver three power levels for edge AI
At embedded world 2025, Synaptics launches the SR-Series adaptive MCUs for scalable context-ware edge AI computing.
Electronics Weekly10d
Embedded World: AI MCU gets Cortex-M55 core and Ethos-U55 NPU
Synaptics announced an AI MCU at Embedded World today, based around Arm's Ethos-U55 NPU (neural processing unit) and ...
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Synaptics Extends Edge AI Portfolio with High-Performance Adaptive MCUs for Multimodal Context-Aware Computing
Based on an Arm® Cortex®-M55 core and the Arm Ethos™-U55 neural processing unit (NPU), the SR-Series is supported by the Astra TM Machina Micro development kit and open-source SDK. It is optimized for ...
Electronics Weekly9d
Embedded World: Infineon adds Nvidia Tao models to MCUs
Infineon is now supporting Nvidia Tao AI models on its Psoc Edge microcontrollers, which combine Arm Cortex-M55 CPUs with Arm ...