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I recently spent some time with Synaptics’ new CEO, Rahul Patel. It was at the company’s Tech Day event held in its San Jose headquarters. Rahul arrived at Synaptics after spending more than a decade at both Qualcomm and Broadcom, so he is no stranger to the semiconductor space. And that’s a good thing, because he joined at a time when the company was already in the midst of a transformation, attempting to become a major player in the Edge AI semiconductor space.

Hello Embedded Engineers, Developers and Makers! Welcome to In Case You Missed it: Embedded Insights, the weekly news show all about Embedded technologies and solutions from Embedded Computing Design.

Synaptics and Google have joined forces to hasten the development of low-power, AI-driven edge devices—marking a potentially significant milestone for open, efficient, and scalable compute architectures. The collaboration brings together Google Research’s new Coral machine-learning accelerator architecture and Synaptics’ deep expertise in low-power silicon design, resulting in the company’s SL2610 platform.

The Synaptics Astra™ Machina modular development kit accelerates the development of high-performance Edge AI applications.

Synaptics introduced its innovative Wi-Fi 7 system-on-chips (SoCs) that focus on expedited data rates and ultra-low latency for IoT applications. The Wi-Fi SoC lineup includes the SYN4390 and SYN4384 delivering a 320 MHz channel bandwidth and peak wireless throughput of 5.8 Gbps.

Embedded Computing Design Editor Ken Briodagh discusses the Astra Embedded Processor Family and On-Device AI Development with Martyn Humphries, Vice President of Business Development at Synaptics.