AMSTERDAM – STMicroelectronics (NYSE: STM), one of Europe’s biggest computer chip companies, has launched a new series of microcontrollers, its first for so-called edge AI and machine learning.
The French-Italian company said on Tuesday that it expects the STM32N6 series to find applications in consumer and industrial electronics to perform image and audio processing that would otherwise require larger computers or data centers.
While generative AI algorithms such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT or Google’s Gemini are trained and run from large data centers, edge AI uses similar principles but less computing power for a limited, local purpose, such as in a car, factory, or wearable device.
That removes the need to send large volumes of information to a data center to be processed and then returned, saving time and electricity.
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