Microchip Expands Full-Stack Edge AI Solutions Microchip Technology Inc. has expanded its edge AI portfolio with full-stack solutions designed to simplify the development and deployment of production-ready AI applications on its microcontrollers (MCUs), microprocessors (MPUs), and FPGAs. The new offering combines silicon, software, and development tools to address performance, power, and security constraints typical of edge environments. Microchip’s MCUs and MPUs operate as the processing nodes nearest to sensors, enabling local data acquisition, motor control, alarm triggering, and real-time analytics without relying on cloud connectivity.

Microchip’s full-stack #edgeAI portfolio simplifies the development and deployment of production-ready AI applications on its #MCUs, #MPUs, and #FPGAs. #AI

Processors for Smart Manufacturing The term “smart manufacturing” refers to the integration of digital technologies such as industrial IoT (IIoT), artificial intelligence, and data analytics into industrial processes. The physical implementation of this concept is applied in smart factories, which are the central element of Industry 4.0. Within smart factories, different types of sensors acquire significant parameters related to the industrial process under control and the operation of the machines themselves.

Processors, used for a variety of functions in a #smartfactory, range from #MCUs and #MPUs to #DSPs and #NPUs, with increasingly more advanced #AI processing.