Tuesday, March 12, 2019

AONdevices Launches AI Systems-on-a-Chip Effort

A new, Irvine-based startup AONdevices--based in the EvoNexus incubator--said this morning that it has launched its company, which is developing artificial intelligence (AI) systems-on-a-chip (SoC) technology to enable embedding of voice control technology in devices like smartphones and wireless headsets. The startup, led by Mouna Elkhatib, said it has developed a neural network technology that can reliably recognize human speech and audio commands in very noisy environments. The startup says it has already implemented its technology using field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs), and is now moving that to a SoC. According to AONdevices, it plans to build specialized deep learning chips for voice and audio processing and expand the framework to other applications in adjacent markets. More information »