CES is back to help the tech industry ring in the New Year, and Embedded Computing Design is on the ground in Las Vegas tracking announcements that will help define electronics for the next year and beyond.

Use one of these headsets and you’ll be very impressed. Take one apart and you’ll be blown away.

SAN JOSE, Calif. Synaptics Incorporated aquired Emza Visual Sense Ltd. allowing for the expansion of edge hardware utilizing Emza’a ML algorithms to adapt to the challenges of an edge environment with AI inference per milliwatt for extended visual sensing. "Bringing together key enabling technologies in edge hardware and algorithms for computer vision, audio, and security, while leveraging decades of experience and deep knowledge of customers’ requirements, will allow us to together rapidly deploy, scale, and re-define the HPD experience," said Saleel Awsare, SVP & GM at Synaptics.

Just when you thought you had a vendor pegged for its area of expertise, you find out you were wrong, and wrong by a long shot.

Imagimob announced the availability of the Imagimob tinyML platform integrated with Synaptics’ DBM10L AI chip. 

Sensor Fusion—it sounds like something out of Star Trek, like some super-futuristic technology. In reality, it’s simply combining sensors in one device. While it sounds simple, it’s actually fairly difficult to do, as different sensor types often employ different technology and have different outputs, and obviously different input types.

The combination of connectivity and sensing with low-power artificial intelligence (AI) processing platforms has dramatically changed our relationship with machines, and forever altered how we live, work, and play. Though their energy requirements are minimal by design, these powerful processors are enabling AI capabilities on edge devices that allow them to process data locally for a range of smart applications for the home, office, and industrial environments.