With a scalable compute portfolio coupled with right-sized Wi-Fi and Bluetooth/BLE connectivity solutions designed for the IoT, Synaptics Astra delivers highly integrated solutions at price points that help OEMs drive differentiation.

As conversational AI unlocks new experiences within homes, at work or on factory floors, next-generation appliances powered by MCUs and MPUs will need to be multi-modal in nature. With built-in vision, video, audio, and display engines and AI-enabled pipelines, Astra SoCs make this world possible.

AI-accelerated connected systems integrated across production lines can drive beneficial business outcomes through higher levels of quality assurance by detecting manufacturing anomalies at-scale and minimizing human intervention. The Astra SL Series coupled with the Machina development kit, enables rapid prototyping with developer friendly AI tools and pre-optimized edge models from the Synaptics partner ecosystem, to build production-ready systems.

AI-enhanced on-body monitoring and multi-modal processing devices require silicon architectures optimized for ultra-low-power compute, capable of enriching end-user experiences. As the area of contextual language models with support for transformers develop rapidly, Synaptics’ portfolio of AI MPUs and AI MCUs is designed from the ground up, to deliver intelligence across various power levels.

Vision and voice are emerging as essential modalities across retail IoT systems such as smart shelving/freezers/robots, kiosks, and point-of-sale devices. With multi-sensor inputs, industry-tested secure video, imaging and inferencing pipelines, Synaptics Astra delivers differentiated options for intelligent compute in smart retail.