Avnet has entered into a distribution agreement with Syntiant, a leader in edge AI deployment using custom silicon. The partnership aims to combine Syntiant’s innovative hardware edge AI solutions with Avnet’s extensive distribution capabilities, potentially accelerating the adoption of AI technologies across various sectors. Syntiant’s Neural Decision Processors bring ultra-low-power advanced sensing and decision-making to edge AI applications across a range of industries, including e-mobility, security, health, and industrial IoT, which aligns with Avnet’s diverse market reach. Independently verified to be 100x more power efficient and offer 10x the throughput when compared to existing low-power MCUs, Syntiant’s processors enable devices to detect motion, light, and vibration, recognize sounds, categorize images, identify objects, people, and animals, and engage in on-device AI-driven conversations. This broadens the scope of intelligent, responsive technologies in everyday electronic devices. “Through our distribution partnership with Syntiant and the roll-out of our RASynBoard, Avnet brings accelerated edge AI,…