News | Kneron - Leading the Way in Edge AI

Jul 30, 2019

Kneron Scores Highest Among Lightweight AI Algorithms

May 20, 2019

Kneron Debuts Edge AI Chip, Bringing AI to Devices Everywhere

Apr 15, 2019

Nasdaq Congratulates Kneron on the production of Edge AI processor

Apr 03, 2019

Kneron hires former Qualcomm's Vice President Business Development Adrian Ong as CCO

Apr 01, 2019

Kneron hires Kingdee's Daniel Yuan as Chief Architect

Jan 04, 2019

Kneron to showcase its 3D AI solutions and launch Smart Home AI SoC at CES 2019

Nov 21, 2018

Kneron was announced in EE Times Silicon 60 Class of 2018

Sep 14, 2018

Kneron Announces New Generation Edge AI Processors NPU IP

Kneron, the leading company in edge artificial intelligence (AI) solutions, attended the Arm AI Global Developers Conference in Shanghai, China today. In an address: "The Application of Reconfigurable Computing in AI Chips," Kneron announced its new generation of AI processors, the NPU IP – KDP series, which are designed for edge devices. These 2nd Gen NPU IP chips comprise three product lines: the ultra-low power KDP 320, the standard KDP 520, and a high-performance version, the KDP 720. With power consumption of under 0.5W, the new series has architecture designed to give more computing flexibility, which also raises overall performance by up to 3 times that of the last generation, to hit 5.8 TOPS(*1).

Jul 18, 2018

Kneron Recruits Former Qualcomm Manager as Chief Scientist

Kneron, the leading provider of edge artificial intelligence (AI) solutions, announced today the recruitment of HsiangTsun Li, the former director of Qualcomm multimedia R&D Division, as the chief scientist leading the company's new solution team engaged in advanced technology and product development in order to accelerate the deployment in Greater China market.

Jun 06, 2018

Kneron Showcasing Offline Smart Home Solutions at InnoVEX

May 31, 2018

Kneron Receives US$18 Million Series A1 Financing

Kneron, the leading provider of edge artificial intelligence (AI) solutions, announced today the completion of their series A1 financing of US$18 million led by Horizons Ventures, a venture capital firm founded by Mr. Ka-shing Li. Horizons Ventures is an investor in many disruptive companies, including Deepmind, Siri, improbable, VIV, Skype, Facebook, and Zoom, during the early stage of their development.

May 17, 2018

Kneron Named as a Cool Vendor by Gartner

Kneron, the leading provider of edge artificial intelligence (AI) solutions, has been named as a Cool Vendor in the Edge Computing by Gartner Inc.1. According to the report, “Edge computing continues to gain significance, but its multifaceted nature creates unique challenges for enterprise architecture and innovation leaders.” We believe Kneron is selected for this report as its technologies involve capabilities that can address some of the important challenges that organizations trying to implement edge-based architectures must deal with.

Mar 07, 2018

Kneron Announces Low Power AI Processors NPU IP Series with the Lowest Power Consumption: Less Than 5mW

Jan 10, 2018

Kneron launches Real Facial Recognition Solutions to unlock entry level and mid-range smartphones

Jan 04, 2018

Sogou AI Open Platform and Kneron announce edge visual and speech recognition solution

Nov 15, 2017

Kneron to Accelerate Edge AI Development with more than 10 Million USD Series A Financing

Kneron, an artificial intelligence (AI) startup company, today announced the completion of series A financing of over ten million US dollars. Alibaba Entrepreneurs Fund and CDIB Capital Group are the lead investors, and Himax Technologies, Inc. (Nasdaq: HIMX), Qualcomm, Thundersoft, Sequoia Capital (its sub funds: Cloudatlas), and CY ZONE are co-investors. As a technology leader of edge AI solutions, Kneron will increase its internal resources to accelerate the integration and development of its solutions, while cooperating with its strategic partners to promote the edge AI technologies and speed up the popularity of AI applications.