STMicroelectronics boosts AI at the edge with NPU-accelerated microcontroller [Video]

The latest generation of microcontroller units, or MCUs, promises to enable developers to push more artificial intelligence to edge devices such as robots. STMicroelectronics International NV this month announced a new MCU series that it claimed is its most powerful to date and integrates accelerated machine learning capabilities.

“We are on the verge of a significant transformation at the tiny edge. This transformation involves the increasing augmentation or replacement of our customers’ workloads by AI models,” stated Remi El-Ouazzane, president of the Microcontrollers, Digital ICs and RF Products Group (MDRF) at STMicroelectronics. “Currently, these models are used for tasks such as segmentation, classification, and recognition. In the future, they will be applied to new applications yet to be developed.”

Geneva, Switzerland-based STMicroelectronics said it has more then 50,000 staffers making semiconductor technologies. The integrated device manufacturer works with over 200,000 customers and thousands of partners to design and build products, systems, …