By Aleksandr Timofeev, founder and CEO of POLYN Technology
Aleksandr Timofeev
The trend of integration and deployment of edge processors in IoT, wearables, and consumer electronics applications will accelerate this year. Edge processors based on standard digital architecture such as ARM or RISC-V will be replaced by more energy-efficient specialized edge chips. The expansion of edge chips based on in-memory computing will also accelerate as the advantage of analog edge chips over digital edge chips becomes more apparent thanks to greater energy efficiency, higher performance, and lower price.
A companion trend for 2024 will be the creation of new hybrid digital-to-analog systems and the first attempts to integrate memristors as elements of edge chips.
Watch for proofs of concept targeting integration of ultra-low-power analog processors for sensor data extraction with low power digital MCUs to perform classification. The digital twin role in this integration enables refining the extraction details prior to chip production. These proofs of concept will demonstrate maximum efficiency of the analog chip structure for MAC operations both in power and latency.
