LIG Nex1 is partnering with a home fabless firm to develop bodily AI semiconductors.
LIG Nex1 introduced on Dec. 17 that it signed a strategic memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Boss Semiconductor, a home semiconductor fabless firm, on Nov. 28 for the event and commercialization of bodily synthetic intelligence (AI) options utilized to drones and robots.
Boss Semiconductor is a home firm specializing within the design of automotive, robotic, and bodily AI semiconductors, and this settlement will actively promote cooperative actions to safe bodily AI and on-device AI applied sciences that may drive next-generation clever drone and robotic expertise innovation.
By way of this settlement, the 2 firms plan to broaden joint cooperation in growth of bodily AI semiconductors and drones/robots making use of them and high-performance system on chip (SoC) to be utilized in next-generation drones and robots.
Bodily AI is a expertise that straight embeds AI fashions into gadgets, enabling gadgets to autonomously acknowledge, decide, and transfer in bodily areas. It could actually additionally considerably improve safety and energy effectivity whereas minimizing latency by lowering dependence on cloud computing and performing real-time recognition, inference, and management throughout the system itself.
Thanks to those traits, bodily AI has established itself as a foundational expertise that meets the core efficiency necessities of robots and drones working autonomously in unmanned environments, and is being evaluated as a next-generation technological paradigm.
By way of this collaboration, LIG Nex1 and Boss Semiconductor plan to safe technological competitiveness in AI semiconductors and high-performance SoC-based applied sciences optimized for drone and robotic platforms, and lead the event of superior clever unmanned techniques in varied fields together with protection, trade, and logistics sooner or later.
LIG Nex1 will pursue the event of next-generation robotic and drone techniques making use of ‘On-Gadget AI semiconductors,’ that are core parts of unmanned cellular gadgets resembling drones, robots, and humanoids geared up with bodily AI. Along with AI semiconductors, the corporate plans to collectively overview with Boss Semiconductor the applicability of latest platforms based mostly on high-performance SoCs to speed up technological innovation within the unmanned techniques area.
Kim Jin-hoon, director of LIG Nex1’s D2C Analysis Institute, mentioned, “By way of this collaboration, we are able to considerably cut back abroad dependence on AI semiconductors by localizing on-device AI semiconductors and high-performance SoCs, that are core parts of unmanned cellular gadgets,” including, “We count on this to be an necessary alternative to safe competitiveness for home AI semiconductor firms and revitalize the AI semiconductor trade throughout protection and civilian sectors.”
