Ambient Scientific

Ambient Scientific is a fabless semiconductor company headquartered in Silicon Valley, with development centers in San Jose, California, and Bangalore, India. The company specializes in groundbreaking AI processors designed for ultra-low power consumption, making them ideal for power-constrained edge devices. Their proprietary technology, DigAn™, combines digital and analog computing to enhance AI throughput, power efficiency, and reduce the footprint of AI applications. The GPX10, one of their flagship AI System-on-Chip (SoC) products, is designed for battery-powered AI applications and features ultra-low power consumption, capable of running for several years on a single coin cell battery. The GPX10 is compact, smaller than a fingernail, and supports software-definable AI cores with multiple operand resolutions from 4 to 32 bits. It achieves superior AI throughput with its custom AI core, MX8, and includes features like Analog Matrix Compute, custom low-power SRAM, and Multi-Channel ADCs. The GPX10 offers peak performance of 512 GOPs and performance efficiency of over 7 TOPs/W, making it the lowest power consumption solution for always-on sensor fusion, voice, and vision AI applications. Additionally, it reduces total system cost compared to cloud deployments or other microprocessors and provides the highest compute density in the industry for on-device and embedded AI applications. Ambient Scientific provides a complete Software Development Kit (SDK) for rapid time-to-market, which includes an AI compiler, development libraries, and sample AI applications. The SDK supports popular AI frameworks like TensorFlow and Keras, and the AI stack includes AI/ML frameworks, compiler toolchain, and Ambient libraries. Applications for their technology include sensor fusion, audio, and vision AI across various industries. The GPX10 architecture supports sensor fusion by connecting up to 10 analog and digital sensors simultaneously and includes an ARM M4F co-processor for executing non-AI workloads. The development platform includes a chip, DVK, and software toolchain, with the development board featuring on-board sensors, an integrated camera, and other peripherals. Ambient Scientific’s mission is to democratize green AI for the betterment of human lives, focusing on sustainable computing by alleviating data traffic across networks and reducing the demand on cloud datacenters.