01/04/2024 – PHOENIX – Avnet (Nasdaq: AVT), a leading global technology distributor, has entered into a distribution agreement with Syntiant, a leader in edge AI deployment. The partnership aims to combine Syntiant’s innovative hardware edge AI solutions with Avnet’s extensive distribution capabilities, potentially accelerating the adoption of AI technologies across various sectors.
Syntiant’s Neural Decision Processors bring ultra-low-power advanced sensing and decision-making to edge AI applications across a range of industries, including e-mobility, security, health, and industrial IoT, which aligns with Avnet’s diverse market reach. Independently verified to be 100x more power efficient and offer 10x the throughput when compared to existing low-power MCUs, Syntiant’s processors enable devices to detect motion, light, and vibration, recognize sounds, categorize images, identify objects, people, and animals, and engage in on-device AI-driven conversations. This broadens the scope of intelligent, responsive technologies in everyday electronic devices.
“Through our distribution partnership with Syntiant and the roll-out of our RASynBoard, Avnet brings accelerated edge AI, battery-powered remote sensor systems, industrial smart sensors, motor predictive maintenance, and always-on speech recognition capabilities to design engineers,” said Jim Beneke, vice president of Advanced Applications Group, Avnet. “This edge AI/ML solution underscores our commitment to quality, enabling widespread adoption of Syntiant’s advanced AI technologies and driving innovation across market sectors.
“Syntiant has a significant market presence with more than 50 million devices deployed using our technology,” said Syntiant CEO Kurt Busch. “Our partnership with Avnet will facilitate even more market expansion by leveraging Avnet’s distribution network to enhance customer access to Syntiant’s edge AI hardware technology, which is powering larger networks, while consuming significantly less power.”
More information on the RASynBoard can be found here. Syntiant will also have the board on display at CES 2024 in Las Vegas. To schedule a demo at CES contact [email protected].
About Syntiant
Founded in 2017 and headquartered in Irvine, Calif., Syntiant Corp. is a leader in delivering hardware and software solutions for edge AI deployment. The company’s purpose-built silicon and hardware-agnostic models are being deployed globally to power edge AI speech, audio, sensor and vision applications across a wide range of consumer and industrial use cases, from earbuds to automobiles. Syntiant’s advanced chip solutions merge deep learning with semiconductor design to produce ultra-low-power, high performance, deep neural network processors. Syntiant also provides compute-efficient software solutions with proprietary model architectures that enable world-leading inference speed and minimized memory footprint across a broad range of processors. The company is backed by several of the world’s leading strategic and financial investors including Intel Capital, Microsoft’s M12, Applied Ventures, Robert Bosch Venture Capital, the Amazon Alexa Fund and Atlantic Bridge Capital. More information on the company can be found by visiting www.syntiant.com or by following Syntiant on X @Syntiantcorp or LinkedIn.
About Avnet
As a leading global technology distributor and solutions provider, Avnet has served customers’ evolving needs for more than a century. We support customers at each stage of a product’s lifecycle, from idea to design and from prototype to production. Our unique position at the center of the technology value chain enables us to accelerate the design and supply stages of product development so customers can realize revenue faster. Decade after decade, Avnet helps its customers and suppliers around the world realize the transformative possibilities of technology. Learn more about Avnet at avnet.com.
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