Alif Semiconductor Now Sampling World’s First BLE and Matter Wireless Microcontroller to Feature Neural Co-Processor for AI/ML Workloads | PR Newswire [Video]

Alif, which announced the Balletto™ Bluetooth MCU family in April, is now sampling its development kit, the DK-B1, to enable rapid prototyping of customer products that require ultra-low power Bluetooth Low Energy or 802.15.4 wireless connectivity. The MCU features a DSP engine and an NPU for efficient hardware acceleration of AI/ML workloads

, /PRNewswire/ — Alif Semiconductor®, a leading global supplier of secure, connected, power efficient Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning (AI/ML) microcontrollers (MCUs) and fusion processors, has released an evaluation board for its new Balletto product, the world’s first Bluetooth® Low Energy (BLE) wireless microcontroller to feature hardware optimization for AI/ML workloads.

The Balletto MCU gives manufacturers the opportunity to implement sophisticated AI/ML functions such as natural language speech recognition, AI noise cancellation, key word spotting, and audio beam forming in true wireless stereo (TWS) earbuds, and sensor fusion ML models in wearable devices and other types of space-constrained …