Tagged "hardware-software-co-optimization"

4 articles tagged hardware-software-co-optimization, 18 February 2026 to 17 March 2026. Newest first.

• KAIST Develops World's First Hyper-Personalized On-Device AI Chip 17 March 2026

  Researchers at KAIST have created a specialized AI chip optimized for personalized inference on mobile and edge devices, enabling efficient model adaptation without cloud synchronization.

• Mirai Announces $10M to Advance On-Device AI Performance for Consumer Devices 25 February 2026

  Mirai has secured $10 million in funding to optimize AI model performance specifically for on-device deployment on consumer hardware. The investment reflects growing market demand for privacy-preserving, latency-free local LLM inference.

• Google Open-Sources NPU IP, Synaptics Implements It for Hardware Acceleration 22 February 2026

  Google has open-sourced its Neural Processing Unit IP architecture, with Synaptics already implementing it, potentially enabling more efficient hardware accelerators for local LLM inference across edge devices.

• Qualcomm Ventures Positions India as Blueprint for Affordable On-Device AI Infrastructure 18 February 2026

  Qualcomm Ventures' MD highlights how India's scale and infrastructure constraints are driving innovation in efficient, on-device AI that bypasses expensive cloud dependencies.