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April 3, 2024Company

Aspinity Establishes Technical Advisory Board of Seasoned Semiconductor Industry Veterans

Advisory board members from Kymeta and BCG to provide technical expertise and strategic guidance for Aspinity's next phase of growth.

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March 27, 2024Product

Aspinity Launches New AML100 Near-Zero Power Monitoring Solutions for Automotive Security

A new suite of automotive security algorithms plus a dashcam evaluation kit that detects and records security events for weeks while parked, without draining the battery.

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January 3, 2024Company

Aspinity Welcomes Semiconductor Industry Veteran Richard Hegberg as CEO

Hegberg brings more than 25 years of executive leadership in semiconductor technology from Vesper MEMS, NetApp, SanDisk, Qualcomm and more, as the AML100 enters volume production.

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September 19, 2023Funding

Aspinity Raises $5 Million Series B Funding to Bring Breakthrough AI/ML Technology to a Global Market

Aspinity and new investor Unitrontech aim to deliver high performance, near-zero power aftermarket and integrated AI solutions for automotive applications.

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March 8, 2023Partnership

New AML100 Application Board Integrates with Renesas Quick-Connect IoT Platform

The new AB2 Application Board enables rapid prototyping of the AML100 with Renesas Quick-Connect IoT platforms; demonstrated at Embedded World.

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June 28, 2022Product

Aspinity AML100 Solution Delivers Industry Best Battery Life/Accuracy Combo for Glass Break Sensors

AML100 is the only glass break detection solution to produce a five-year battery life while also eliminating false alarms to common household sounds.

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February 15, 2022Product

Aspinity Redefines Always-on Power Efficiency with First Analog Machine Learning Chip

Aspinity announces the AML100, its first AnalogML chip — the industry's first tinyML solution operating completely within the analog domain.

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August 17, 2021Company

Aspinity Expands Executive Team and Board of Directors

Experts in AI/ML, edge computing, analog semiconductors and IoT bring engineering acumen and operational excellence to the AnalogML pioneer.

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April 6, 2021Product

Analog Machine Learning Drives Near-Zero-Power Acoustic Event Detection

Announcing a new acoustic event detection evaluation kit built on the AnalogML core.

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March 2, 2021Partnership

Aspinity Joins STMicroelectronics Partner Program

Aspinity aligns with a leader in high-performance microcontrollers to support extended battery life in IoT devices.

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December 2, 2020Product

Aspinity Releases Analog Voice First Evaluation Kit

Analog machine learning chip drives a new generation of high-performance voice-enabled products with extended battery life.

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September 2, 2020Funding

Aspinity Raises $5.3 Million Series A Funding to Stop Battery Drain in Always-on Smart Sensing Products

Aspinity's neuromorphic analog chip dramatically reduces power consumption in always-on IoT and IIoT devices, smart speakers, voice-activated remotes and hearables.

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May 14, 2020Partnership

Aspinity and Infineon Partner to Accelerate Development of Intelligent Sensing Products with Longer Lasting Batteries

A partnership to accelerate development of intelligent sensing products with significantly longer battery life.

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December 10, 2019Product

Aspinity Demonstrates the World's First Ultra-Low-Power Analog Voice Wake-Up IC for Battery Operated Devices

The most power-efficient end-to-end voice wake-up solution for voice-first devices, using two STMicroelectronics microcontrollers and the Sensory wake word engine.

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June 25, 2019Product

Aspinity Enables 10x Less Power for Always-on Sensing

Aspinity announces ultra-low power analog processing technology that overcomes the power and data handling challenges in battery-operated always-on sensing devices.

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November 27, 2018Funding

Aspinity Raises $2.9M in Funding Round

Aspinity raises $2.9M from Birchmere Ventures, the Amazon Alexa Fund and other investors to enable ultra-low power, always-on sensing.

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In the news

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Press coverage, podcasts, and video features on Aspinity's analog AI.

May 2, 2024Automotive Industries

Aspinity's AML100 Leads the Charge in Near-Zero Power AI for Automotive and Beyond

Automotive Industries interviewed CEO Richard Hegberg about the new automotive security solution.

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April 15, 2024Undecided with Matt Ferrell

Why the Future of AI & Computers Will Be Analog

Matt Ferrell discusses how and why analog is so important for the future of energy-efficient AI.

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November 29, 2023The AI Hardware Show

Ep8: Just Do It All In Analog

Aspinity featured with Ian Cutress and Sally Ward-Foxton, discussing the AML100.

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October 9, 2023Freethink · Hard Reset

This Device Is 1,000 Times More Efficient Than Your Computer

The benefits of analog computing and how they may change the way we interact with our devices.

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January 12, 2023EE Times

Achieving Unprecedented Power Savings with AnalogML

Part of the EE Times Analog Everywhere Trends Series — saving always-on product power with AnalogML.

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September 22, 2022Pittsburgh Technology Council

Aspinity Named a Tech 50 Finalist

The AML100 made the finals in the Solutions Provider / Innovative Tech category.

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September 13, 2022Semiconductor Engineering

Rethinking Machine Learning for Power

Editor Brian Bailey explores the “fundamental rethinking” of machine learning in intelligent edge devices.

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August 17, 2022Conversations on Applied AI

Podcast: Applying AI to Always-on Sensing

Tom Doyle joins Justin Grammens to discuss applying AI to always-on sensing.

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June 8, 2022Fierce Electronics

Transforming Intrusion Alarm Systems with Intelligent Analog Computing

The AML100 delivers minimal false alarms alongside a battery life of five years or longer.

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April 21, 2022SemiWiki

Podcast EP72: Analog AI/ML with Aspinity

Daniel Nenni explores the benefits of Aspinity's analog signal processing technology.

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April 18, 2022Embedded Computing Design

Aspinity AnalogML Chip Allows Battery-Powered Always On

Rich Nass on how the AML100 brings machine learning into the analog domain to extend battery life.

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March 17, 2022EE Journal

Shhh — Aspinity's AML100 Analog AI Voice and Vibration IC Is Listening

Max Maxfield examines the use of analog and its implementation in the AML100 processing chip.

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February 23, 2022Hackster.io

Aspinity Launches AML100 Analog TinyML Chip

Gareth Halfacree explains how the AML100 lets high-power digital parts stay asleep.

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February 23, 2022EE Times

AI Startup Aspinity Launches Low-Power Analog Chip

Sally Ward-Foxton talks with Tom Doyle about the new AML100.

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February 16, 2022Planet Analog

Audio Chip Moves Machine Learning from Digital to Analog

Majeed Ahmad explores the capabilities of Aspinity's new AML100 chip.

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February 15, 2022All About Circuits

Aspinity Takes on TinyML

Jake Hertz explains what happens when you apply the merits of analog computing to machine learning.

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February 15, 2022Technical.ly

Amazon-Backed Semiconductor Startup Aspinity Launches Its First Product

Sophie Burkholder on what it means to have Aspinity in Pittsburgh, a fertile region for engineering talent.

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January 5, 2022Planet Analog

Does Analog Have a Place in the Machine Learning World?

Majeed Ahmad explains how analog plays an important role in battery-operated always-on sensing devices.

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November 2, 2021SEMI

tinyML: One Size Does Not Fit All

What is analog computing, and what do engineers need to know about it?

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October 25, 2021TechVibe Radio

TechVibe Neighborhood Tour — The Strip District

TechVibe Radio speaks with Aspinity's Marcie Weinstein about the company's technology and life in Pittsburgh's Strip District.

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September 15, 2021Embedded Computing Design

Embedded Executive Podcast

Rich Nass speaks with Tom Doyle about what AnalogML is, how it works, and why anyone should care.

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September 8, 2021Fierce Electronics

Strategies for Power-Efficient Machine Learning at the Edge

How analog is being used in several different ways to solve the always-on power problem — an article by CEO Tom Doyle.

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July 7, 2021Embedded Computing Design

Not All Analog Computing Is Equal

What designers need to know about the differences between analog in-memory computing and the AnalogML core.

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May 27, 2021EE Journal

Awesome Analog Artificial Neural Networks (AANNs)

Max Maxfield on the AnalogML core and the emergence of analog as an important component of machine learning at the edge.

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May 24, 2021EE Journal · Fish Fry

Podcast: The World According to Analog

Amelia Dalton interviews Aspinity to learn why analog is critical for the digital future.

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May 7, 2021Semiconductor Engineering

Developers Turn to Analog for Neural Nets

Bryon Moyer looks at how analog can be used to save power in machine learning applications.

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April 16, 2021EE Times

Aspinity Expands into Audio Event Detection

Sally Ward-Foxton writes about the new evaluation kit for analog acoustic event detection and system wake-up.

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February 9, 2021Fierce Electronics

Analyze First: Analog Addresses Power Challenges at the Edge

Karen Field talks with Tom Doyle about how AnalogML addresses power challenges for always-on edge processing.

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February 4, 2021Electronic Design

Analog Matters Even in a Digital World

Tom Doyle explains how analog machine learning enables a system-level approach to power efficiency.

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November 16, 2020EE Times Europe

Reduce the Data, Save the Battery

How intelligently minimizing the data running through an always-listening system preserves battery life.

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