imec.xpand portfolio company Axelera AI has announced a strategic partnership with Arduino. By combining Axelera AI’s Metis™ AI Platform with the powerful SOMs from the Arduino Pro range, the collaboration aims to make high-performance AI at the edge more accessible than ever.
Arduino’s open-source solutions are trusted by many Fortune 500 companies and extensively used by makers, educators, and engineers all over the world. This partnership allows a 33-million-strong community of creative thinkers already working with Arduino to have access to Axelera AI’s innovative AI acceleration platform, to transform AI technologies and unlock new possibilities for AI that have yet to be realized.
Fabrizio Del Maffeo, CEO and Co-Founder at Axelera AI: “Axelera AI was founded to democratize AI by offering fast, easy-to-access AI technology that minimizes power consumption and cost. This is critical for companies to realize true AI innovation. Another important step is building an ecosystem of collaborators all striving to achieve that same goal. We cannot wait to see what the Arduino community will create through this partnership.”
The partnership is an essential step toward developing an AI ecosystem of partners all aligned on the vision to reduce barriers around the most advanced and powerful technologies today. Realizing this multi-billion-dollar opportunity requires skill sets from various disciplines, including builders, enablers, co-creators, and developers. This ecosystem is essential to harness the true power of AI, and to enable the AI innovation of tomorrow, unlocking AI imagination across key vertical markets such as automotive, digital healthcare, high-performance computing, Industry 4.0, retail, robots & drones, visual security, and more.
Read the full announcement on the website of Axelera AI.