Syntiant NDP200 Awarded ‘Best Product of the Year’ at tinyML Summit
Second Generation Processor Recognized for Advances in Ultra-Low-Power Machine Learning
Irvine, Calif., March 30, 2023 – Syntiant Corp., a leader in edge AI deployment, today announced that its Syntiant® NDP200 Neural Decision Processor™ (NDP) has been named “Best Product of the Year” by the tinyML Foundation.
The award for Best ML Processing Chip, AI Accelerators was revealed yesterday during the 2023 tinyML Summit, the premier annual gathering of senior level technical experts and decision makers representing the fast growing global tinyML community.
“We are very grateful for the remarkable work of the tinyML Foundation that has led to the continued success of the summit and global growth of tinyML,” said Mallik Moturi, chief business officer at Syntiant, who was on hand to accept the award. “We are especially thrilled to win this year’s tinyML best product of the year award for the NDP200, which allows for vision AI to be incorporated into edge devices with near-zero power consumption, for always-on applications across all types of consumer and commercial use cases.”
Designed for always-on edge AI vision applications, the NDP200’s Syntiant Core 2™ architecture provides full control of multiple independent networks that can run concurrently at powers less than 2mW and with near zero latency. Ideal for use cases such as person detection, object classification, motion tracking and occupancy monitoring, the NDP200 brings highly accurate neural processing to consumer and commercial battery-powered devices, including IP and security cameras, video doorbells, and teleconferencing equipment, among other use cases. More information on the Syntiant NDP200 can be found by visiting https://www.syntiant.com/hardware.
The tinyML Foundation’s “Best Product of the Year” is given to the commercial hardware, software or system product that brought the most significant technological advances in the tinyML marketplace.
Syntiant also received the tinyML Foundation’s “Best Product of the Year” in 2021 for its NDP120.
About Syntiant
Founded in 2017 and headquartered in Irvine, Calif., Syntiant Corp. is a leader in delivering hardware and software solutions for edge AI deployment. The company’s purpose-built silicon and hardware-agnostic models are being deployed globally to power edge AI speech, audio, sensor and vision applications across a wide range of consumer and industrial use cases, from earbuds to automobiles. Syntiant’s advanced chip solutions merge deep learning with semiconductor design to produce ultra-low-power, high performance, deep neural network processors. Syntiant also provides compute-efficient software solutions with proprietary model architectures that enable world-leading inference speed and minimized memory footprint across a broad range of processors. 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. More information on the company can be found by visiting www.syntiant.com or by following Syntiant on Twitter @Syntiantcorp or LinkedIn.
