EdgeCortix’s Sakura-II module.
Courtesy of EdgeCortix
As Japan races to develop its domestic semiconductor ecosystem, Tokyo-headquartered chip design startup EdgeCortix announced it received 3 billion yen ($21 million) from a government-backed agency to develop specialized chips that can power “edge AI,” a rapidly growing field of AI that involves running applications on devices themselves instead of on the cloud.
The fresh funds, in the form of a project award from Japan’s New Energy…
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