NXP set to acquire Edge AI pioneer Kinara in $300m deal
Summary
Advanced AI at the edge enables critical decisions to be made locally and independently from the cloud, ensuring faster responses, improved data privacy, and reduced costs. “The industrial market is going through a transformation, with new innovations like generative AI helping to deliver major improvements in efficiency, sustainability, safety and predictability, and in many instances, unlock new use cases and functionality,” said Rafael Sotomayor, executive vice president and general manager, Secure Connected Edge at NXP. “Adding Kinara’s AI capabilities to our broad intelligent edge portfolio creates a scalable platform for new classes of AI-powered systems. Both devices feature an architecture that enables mapping of the inference graphs for efficient execution on Kinara’s programmable proprietary neural processing units for maximising edge AI performance. Kinara also provides a complete software development kit enabling customers to optimise AI model performance and streamline the deployment.