Synaptics (SYNA.US) collaborates with Google (GOOGL.US) to advance IoT edge AI technology.

Market IntelThursday, Jan 2, 2025 5:30 am ET

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Synaptics(SYNA.US) announced on Thursday that it will collaborate with Google(GOOGL.US) in the field of edge AI for the IoT, aiming to define the best implementation of multimodal processing for context-aware computing. The news boosted Synaptics' shares by more than 4% before the market opened on Thursday.

The cooperation will integrate Google's ML kernels that comply with the MLIR standard and open-source software and tools on Synaptics' Astra hardware, accelerating the development of IoT AI devices that can support visual, image, voice, sound and other modalities, providing seamless interactions for applications such as wearable devices, home appliances, entertainment, embedded hubs, monitoring and control in consumer, automotive, enterprise and industrial systems.

Billy Rutledge, head of systems research at Google Research, said: "Synaptics' adoption of open-source software and tools and verified AI hardware makes the Astra product portfolio suitable for our ML core as we accelerate meeting the challenging power, performance, cost and space requirements of edge AI devices. We look forward to working together to bring our capabilities to a broader market."

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