SAN JOSE, CA, July 13, 2026 – Akeana’s RISC-V processor technology will support Innatera’s neuromorphic SoC architecture for near-sensor edge AI, pairing CPU flexibility with Spiking Neural Network-based processing for power-limited and latency-critical applications.
“Innatera develops the industry’s most advanced neuromorphic SoCs for high-performance near-sensor AI at the lowest power levels and shortest latencies. Our partnership with Akeana allows us to leverage its RISC-V processor technology as part of our broader architecture, enabling exciting applications in the physical AI space,” says Sumeet Kumar, CEO and co-founder of Innatera. “Our mission of processing the world’s data directly at the sensor requires an efficient platform approach in order to scale across a wide variety of use cases. Flexible and scalable CPUs are critical to this mission, and we are excited to collaborate with Akeana.”
Innatera is combining processor technology with its neuromorphic compute approach to support a range of applications, AI models and customer requirements while maintaining low-power, real-time processing.
“Akeana is very proud to be working with Innatera. They are really pushing the boundaries in terms of efficient compute for Edge AI, and we are very excited to be able to support them”, says Rabin Sugumar, CEO of Akeana. “We feel that Innatera really challenges the use case of our AI Vector cores for their ultra-low power products”.
Innatera’s Spiking Neural Processor is designed to process sensory data using mechanisms modeled on the brain. The processors use Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) for always-on pattern recognition in power-limited and latency-critical applications.
Source: Innatera
About Innatera
Innatera develops neuromorphic processors designed to run AI on edge devices. The company builds neuromorphic microcontrollers that process sensor data using spiking neural network architectures. These products support real-time data processing while reducing power consumption and dependence on cloud computing. Innatera serves original equipment manufacturers and developers across automotive, industrial systems, wearables, smart home devices, and IoT applications. The company was founded in 2018 as a spin-off from Delft University of Technology. Innatera is headquartered in Rijswijk, Netherlands. It focuses on R&D, and integration of neuromorphic hardware for commercial products. Its technology targets use cases requiring low latency, continuous sensing, and efficient on-device intelligence. Applications include pattern recognition, event detection, and condition monitoring in embedded systems.
About Akeana
Akeana is a U.S. semiconductor IP company founded in 2021 and based in San Jose, CA. The company develops RISC-V processor IP, interconnect IP, system IP and accelerator IP for chip designers. Its offerings include microcontroller cores, embedded cores, laptop and server cores, coherent and non-coherent interconnects, Android clusters, AI vector cores and compute clusters. Akeana serves semiconductor companies, system-on-chip developers, cloud infrastructure suppliers, networking companies, data center operators and automotive chip developers. Its IP supports chip designs for AI, cloud infrastructure, networking, data centers, mobile computing and automotive applications. The company licenses processor and system IP rather than selling finished chips. Akeana exited stealth mode in 2024 after raising more than $100 million in initial funding.