Edge AI
ON Semiconductor to Acquire Synaptics in $7 Billion Physical AI Push
ON Semiconductor Corp. has agreed to acquire Synaptics Inc. in an all-stock transaction valued at approximately $7 billion, marking the largest deal in the company’s history. The acquisition signals an aggressive expansion beyond ON Semiconductor’s core power and sensing business into the rapidly growing market for physical AI, intelligence that runs locally on hardware rather […]
Jon Swartz · Jun 26, 2026 · 2 min
Arm Steps Up Efforts to Entice Developers to Write Native Windows Code
Arm has stepped up an effort to convince more developers to create Windows applications that run natively on its processors. Dave Whaley, director of strategic partnerships for Arm, said an AppReady for Windows initiative centralizes access to artificial intelligence (AI) tools for scanning code and identifying portability issues, along with access to support and guidance […]
Mike Vizard · Jun 12, 2026 · 2 min
SiFive’s P570 Gen 3 Tests Whether RISC-V Can Challenge Arm in Consumer Silicon
SiFive P570 Gen 3 RISC-V core delivers out-of-order vector execution and RVA23 compliance to challenge Arm in consumer and edge AI silicon.
Brendan Burke · May 13, 2026 · 6 min
Can AMD’s Edge Silicon Scale to the Trillion Dollar Orbital Opportunity?
AMD CTO outlines how the company’s edge AI compute heritage and adaptive SoCs position it for the emerging orbital data center market.
Brendan Burke · May 1, 2026 · 6 min
Will SiFive’s $400 Million Round Unblock the Data Center CPU Bottleneck?
SiFive raises $400M to bring RISC-V data center CPU IP to agentic AI workloads, targeting the memory bandwidth wall with decoupled vector.
Brendan Burke · Apr 10, 2026 · 7 min
MediaTek Analyst Day 2026 – Is the New MediaTek Ready to Move Upmarket to AI PCs and Data Center?
MediaTek data center strategy revealed at Analyst Day 2026, and why its $1B B2B revenue goal faces tough challenges.
Olivier Blanchard · Apr 6, 2026 · 7 min
Qualcomm Unveils Future of Intelligence at CES 2026, Pushes Boundaries of On-Device AI
Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X2 Plus with 80 TOPS NPU targets agentic AI experiences. New Dragonwing IQ10 powers industrial humanoid robots with 18-core CPU.
Brendan Burke · Jan 16, 2026 · 1 min