LAS VEGAS, NV, Jan 14, 2025 – Innatera has showcased Spiking Neural Processor (SNP) that transforms the way battery-powered devices make sense of the physical world at CES 2025.
Delft University’s Spiking Neural Processor uses a unique architecture for brain-like cognition within ultra-low power envelope.
“At this pivotal moment in computing, Innatera’s breakthrough Spiking Neural Processor delivers unmatched energy-efficient, brain-inspired cognition for sensors, unlocking the promise of ambient intelligence,” said Sumeet Kumar, CEO of Innatera. “This revolutionary processor provides an all-in-one solution that simplifies and optimizes sensor data processing at the edge.”
Innatera’s SNP combines a Spiking Neural Network (SNN) engine with a RISC-V processor core and other accelerators to deliver a complete solution in energy-constrained environments. The single-chip solution brings intelligence closer to sensors, enabling next-generation AI and signal processing for applications in consumer electronics, smart homes, and industrial IoT, such as audio interfaces, touch-free interfaces, presence detection, activity recognition, and ECG recognition.
The SNP achieves high-performance pattern recognition at the sensor edge and enables real-time analysis of sensor data to detect and identify embedded patterns, with sub-milliwatt power dissipation and sub-millisecond latency.
Ambient Intelligence marks a major departure from computing technology as we know it, paving the way for a future where digital interactions are as natural as breathing.
At CES 2025, Innatera demonstrated how the SNP can transform computing in several real-world applications:
- Audio Scene Classification: Audio scene classification allows devices to be aware of the environment they operate in and use this information to adapt their operation. For example, noise-canceling headphones adapting to ambient noise like airplanes or city buses.
- Robust Human Presence Sensing: The detection of human presence is important in a wide range of indoor and outdoor applications, such as security cameras, smart lighting, video doorbells and smart TVs. Using a radar sensor, this demo showcases always-on, privacy-preserving human presence detection with accuracy and power efficiency.
- Robust People Counting Using Far Infrared Sensors: Innatera showcased how its SNP enables advanced people counting and human presence detection with passive infrared sensors. Infrared technology is a non-intrusive, low-light, and privacy-preserving method for people counting and human presence detection.
Innatera’s presence at CES 2025 follows a remarkable year of growth and development for the innovation-driven Delft University of Technology spin-off. Earlier this year, the company announced the oversubscription of a Series A $21-million funding round that is accelerating the development of neuromorphic processors.
Source: Innatera
