Ambiq Micro

Cadence has added direct support for neural networks to the latest iteration of its DSP cores aimed at audio systems.

EEMBC has released a benchmark and initial results that analyze peripheral performance on microcontrollers.

Texas Instruments has launched a family of ARM-based microcontrollers intended to act as a migration path from its low-energy 16bit MSP430 series, developing its own flash-capable 90nm process to implement them.

Research by the University of Michigan into subthreshold circuit design has led to spinoff company Ambiq Micro creating a family of microcontrollers that it claims provide an ARM Cortex-M4F with power consumption at levels normally associated with an M0+.