Renesas Teams Up with AI Startup EdgeCortix
Renesas Electronics Corporation has announced a strategic partnership with EdgeCortix. In conjunction with the strategic collaboration, Renesas has invested into EdgeCortix’s most recent funding round. Through both the investment and the partnership, this relationship will provide Renesas with unique access to EdgeCortix’s industry-leading technology.
Renesas has staked a leadership position in edge and endpoint AI with the industry’s broadest offering of embedded computing solutions complemented by its Reality AI Software and a larger number of internal and partner solutions for AI in industrial, smart home, automotive, and other applications. Partnering with EdgeCortix will support Renesas in streamlining and unifying its overall AI/ML (Machine Learning) developer experience across its entire MCU and MPU portfolio, and enable a seamless back-end layer for compilation that supports heterogeneous architectures.
Sailesh Chittipeddi, Executive Vice President and General Manager of Renesas’ Embedded Processing, Digital Power and Signal Chain Solutions Group said, “Renesas saw the potential for AI/ML at the edge and endpoint very early on, and we have moved swiftly to solidify our position in this fast-growing segment. The combination of our embedded processors and Reality AI Software along with EdgeCortix solutions will enable our customers to seamlessly compile their AI code with support for heterogeneous architectures, reducing their development risk, time and cost.”
Sakyasingha Dasgupta, Founder and CEO of EdgeCortix said, “We are delighted to grow and enhance our current strategic collaboration with an industry leader that also shares our vision and enthusiasm for the vast potential of supporting energy-efficient AI/ML applications at the edge. We are confident that both companies will benefit from this relationship, however the real winners will be our collective customers.”
