Sony’s semiconductor division has announced that it is making a “strategic funding” in Raspberry Pi as a option to convey its AI tech to a wider market. The concept is to provide Raspberry Pi customers all over the world a growth platform for its Aitrios edge computing (on-chip) AI platform used for picture sensing capabilities like facial recognition.
“We’re more than happy to be partnering with Raspberry Pi Ltd. to convey our Aitrios platform — which helps the event of distinctive and numerous options using our edge AI units — to the Raspberry Pi person and developer neighborhood, and supply a singular growth expertise,” stated Sony Semiconductor Options president and CEO Terushi Shimizu.
The Raspberry Pi 4 and different units from the corporate give customers PC-like energy in a small type issue. Initially designed as an academic platform to show robotics, coding and extra, it has grow to be fashionable as a method for coders to prototype IoT (Web of Issues) and different units.
The addition of Sony’s Aitrios may make it much more helpful. Not like cloud AI, it runs immediately on chips (edge computing) to scale back latency, and Sony has pitched the system for makes use of like surveillance, safety and extra. Examples cited on a dedicated website embody stock monitoring and retention, buyer counting, license plate recognition and “detailed worker evaluation.” Sony says it preserves privateness by analyzing information strictly on-chip and solely sending metadata to the cloud.
Sony is already concerned with Raspberry Pi as a “longstanding and valued strategic associate,” the corporate stated. It recently provided imaging chips with autofocus functionality and helped Raspberry Pi get its UK manufacturing plant up to speed within the early days of the corporate.
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