Pengpai Micro opens up a new track for AIoT chips - MCU with AI capabilities

In our traditional understanding, artificial intelligence ( AI)-related applications can only be realized by relying on cloud computing or AI chips with sufficient computing power. In the era of the Internet of Everything and Intelligence of Everything, is it possible to realize rich AI applications on an MCU?

Xiamen Pengpai Microelectronics Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as Pengpai Microelectronics), a new force in the domestic 32-bit MCU, recently announced a strategic cooperation with a world-leading AI algorithm company . It plans to use the company's leading TinyML technology achievements to deploy AI algorithms on Pengpai Microelectronics' innovative architecture MCU, and realize AI intelligence in many fields such as smart home appliances, smart homes, and smart manufacturing at a very low cost.

AI is an important technology that can change human society. It has begun to be implemented in various application scenarios, and the implementation scenarios are becoming more and more diverse. Many years ago, the industry predicted that AI and the Internet of Things (IoT) would be closely integrated into AIoT, and AIoT would create a huge emerging market where AI is everywhere, and AIoT chips would also be huge in scale. However, so far, there are relatively few AIoT chips, and the specific implementation of AIoT chips faces many difficulties, such as fragmented application scenarios and the high cost of a single dedicated AI chip, which is not conducive to large-scale promotion and application.

With the rapid evolution of AI algorithms, the new TinyML (Tiny Machine Learning) technology combined with MCU is expected to open up a new path for AIoT. TinyML technology can deploy many AI algorithms on MCUs, and can also be deployed on MCUs with different architectures and resources in a light and flexible manner according to different application scenarios, without the need for dedicated AI chips designed specifically for application scenarios. Letting AI run on MCUs can integrate the MCU's low power consumption, low cost, large size, short development cycle, fast time to market, good real-time performance, and privacy protection with the powerful capabilities of AI, which is bound to unlock a huge market and make a large number of devices intelligent!

Pengpai Microelectronics As a new force in the domestic 32-bit MCU, the company has launched products quickly, launching 5 series of 32-bit MCUs in 2 years. The products have been applied in many scenarios such as industrial control, instrumentation, home appliances, and consumer electronics. The entrepreneurial team also has experience in designing AI chips, and the AI ​​chip has been mass-produced.

Pengpai Microelectronics' partners include the world's leading TinyML technology, have worked with international giants on AIoT MCUs, and have been working with the world's leading MCU companies. Pengpai Microelectronics has obtained a valuable cooperation opportunity because of its excellent technology, extremely high efficiency and high attention to AIoT. At present, the cooperation between the two parties has successfully realized artificial intelligence functions on Pengpai Microelectronics' MCU chips, and the test results are good.

The achievement of this strategic cooperation will promote the rapid growth of Pengpai Microelectronics in the new AIoT track. At present, the first actual scenario application project of the cooperation between the two parties has been launched, and there will be initial results after the Spring Festival in 2022. Pengpai Microelectronics will cherish this cooperation opportunity very much, and strive to promote the rapid implementation of AIoT in many fields such as smart home appliances, and strive to become China's most innovative 32-bit MCU company.