surveillance: Fabless chip companies eye surveillance market play via edge-AI silicon

Indian fabless semiconductor startups such as Netrasemi, BigEndian Semiconductors and Sensesemi Technologies are focusing on video surveillance as a proving ground for domestically designed edge-AI silicon as an initial step towards building a broader vision-led automation stack.

Edge-AI silicon refers to chips designed to run artificial intelligence functions locally on a device.

The three firms are designing chips for different layers of the surveillance value chain, from camera subsystems to application-specific chips and ultra-low-power sensor…