About Syntiant
Syntiant, based in Irvine, California, makes Neural Decision Processors, very low power chips that run neural networks for always-on tasks such as voice commands and sensor monitoring. Its Core 2 design couples memory with multiply-accumulate units, the circuits that perform the basic arithmetic of neural networks, so less data has to travel between them. The NDP200, introduced in September 2021, was its first chip aimed at vision tasks such as person detection and object classification. Syntiant says it runs these workloads at about a milliwatt or two, a vendor claim.
Syntiant was founded in 2017 and is based in Irvine, CA, United States. It is listed under Edge Computing, Neuromorphic Computing, In-Memory Computing. Reported funding is Equity from Khazanah Nasional & Boardman Bay (Dec 2024) financing $150M Knowles CMM acquisition.
Compute Technologies
- Edge Computing
- Neuromorphic
- In-Memory Computing
What Syntiant works on
Edge Computing
Edge computing means processing data close to where it is produced, on a device or a nearby server, instead of sending everything to a distant cloud data center. In chip terms, edge processors are small, low-power chips that run software and AI models inside phones, cameras, cars and sensors.
Neuromorphic Computing
Neuromorphic computing builds chips that copy some features of the brain. Instead of a central processor and separate memory, a neuromorphic chip has many small units that act like neurons, each with its own local memory, joined by connections that act like synapses.
In-Memory Computing
In-memory computing does calculations inside or right next to the memory that stores the data, instead of copying the data to a separate processor. It is also called processing-in-memory (PIM) or compute-in-memory.
