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  • ENGtechnica Introduces “Best Green Tech Award” at CES 2025, Honoring Innatera for Energy-Efficient Innovation

    ENGtechnica Introduces “Best Green Tech Award” at CES 2025, Honoring Innatera for Energy-Efficient Innovation

    LAS VEGAS, NV, Jan 31, 2025 – Inspired by the groundbreaking advancements showcased by Innatera at CES 2025, ENGtechnica is proud to introduce its inaugural “Best Green Tech Award.” The first-ever recipient of this distinction is Innatera, recognized for its T1 SNP (Spiking Neural Processor)—a pioneering technology that, by being located near the sensor and remaining dormant most of the time, consumes just 1/500th of the energy of a GPU-based system.

    “With data centers full of GPU-based servers proliferating, it’s good to know that companies like Innatera offer an energy-considerate alternative to the considerable energy demands made to satisfy AI demand,” said Roopinder Tara, Editor-in-Chief of ENGtechnica, as he presented the award.

    The T1 SNP represents a significant step forward in sustainable computing, helping to redefine the balance between performance and energy efficiency. As AI workloads continue to grow, Innatera’s innovation provides a compelling, eco-conscious solution that could reshape the future of AI processing.

    “We are truly honored to be the first recipient of this award, which reflects Innatera’s commitment to addressing the environmental challenges posed by the growing adoption of AI technologies,” said Sumeet Kumar, CEO of Innatera. “At Innatera, we strongly believe that sustainability and innovation must go hand in hand. Furthermore, our vision for Ambient Intelligence is central to everything we do. The energy-efficient Spiking Neural Processor embodies this vision, enabling technology to seamlessly integrate into our environments, respond intelligently to context, and operate sustainably at the edge.”

    To learn more about Innatera’s T1 SNP:

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    About ENGtechnica

    ENGtechnica is a trail-blazing technology-centric media platform dedicated to covering innovations that shape the future of engineering, computing, and sustainability. With a focus on design, engineering, manufacturing and building, emerging trends in AI, modern product design, and green technology, ENGtechnica provides broad news coverage and offers in-depth analysis and insights to engineers, technologists and industry leaders. The “Best Green Tech Award” is part of ENGtechnica’s commitment to designing and engineering while considering social consequences and environmental cost.

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    Editor in Chief, ENGtechnica
    roopinder@superwomansolutions.com

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  • Innatera Unveils Spiking Neural Processor for Battery-Powered Sensing at CES

    Innatera Unveils Spiking Neural Processor for Battery-Powered Sensing at CES

    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