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During January 6–9, 2026 in Las Vegas, Nevada at CES, EMASS will exhibit its ECS-DoT system-on-chip (SoC). The SoC is considered a milliwatt-class, on-device AI platform designed to deliver always-on intelligence with ultra-low latency and reduced power consumption.

AI at the endpoint gets yet another boost from EMASS, a fabless semiconductor company that recently emerged from stealth mode. 

Having your processing at the endpoint presents a few significant challenges, namely the amount of processing that can be made available and the ability to run from a battery. EMASS has come up with a way to do this a little differently from what’s been done previously. They can attach their RISC-V processing element to any sensor, making the device an AI accelerator. It’s a little difficult for me to put into words here, so check out this week’s Embedded Executives podcast, where I spent some time with Mark Goranson, EMASS’s CEO, who explains it in detail.

EMASS, a Nanoveu subsidiary, revealed the ECS-DoT, its edge AI system-on-chip (SoC) enabling always-on, milliWatt-scale intelligence with no need for cloud-based processing thereby reducing latency and power consumption. The ECS-DoT offers four megabytes of on-board SRAM, allowing efficient AI computations on edge and IoT devices.