Teradyne and Syntiant Collaborate to Significantly Shorten Time to Market for Innovative Artificial Intelligence Neural Decision Processors
January 12, 2021 at 09:00 am EST
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Teradyne, Inc. announced that the company's UltraFLEX test platform has enabled AI chip company Syntiant Corp. to successfully ship millions of its microwatt-power, deep learning Neural Decision Processors to customers worldwide. Built from a clean sheet, hardware software co-design methodology that optimizes silicon and deep learning models together, the Syntiant® NDP100 and Syntiant® NDP101 Neural Decision Processors bring hands-free, cloud-free, always-on voice and sensor AI applications to battery-powered edge devices. Syntiant's NDP10x chips run AI workloads under 140uW and improve efficiency by 100x and throughput by 10x compared to traditional MCUs. Syntiant's architecture supports dozens of application-defined audio classifications, such as keyword spotting, wake word detection, speaker identification, audio event and environment classification, as well as sensor analytics.
Teradyne, Inc. specializes in the development, manufacturing and marketing of automatic test equipments. Net sales break down by family of products as follows:
- semiconductor tester (72.4%);
- system testing solutions (13.1%): testers of integrated circuit, digital network cards, electronic modules, military and aerospace instruments, car diagnostic systems, etc.;
- industrial automation solutions (9%);
- wireless test solutions (5.5%): for mobiles devices and equipments manufacturers (smart phones, tablets, laptops, etc.).
Net sales break down by source of income into sales of products (86.2%) and services (13.8%; consulting, development, training and technical support services).
Net sales break down geographically as follows: the United States (10.3%), Taiwan (37.8%), China (14.9%), Korea (12.5%), Europe (6.6%), Japan (4.6%), Thailand (4.4%), Singapore (2.4%), Philippines (2.2%), Malaysia (1.8%) and other (2.5%).
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