Edge Computing

Acer has unveiled three Android 16 tablets and two wearable devices aimed at mobile professionals and creative users.

The $9.8m option exercise brings the total joint programme with the University of Southern Mississippi to $24.8m for autonomous undersea mission software.

VisionWave Holdings has filed a US patent application for DeepWave RF, an edge-AI subsurface sensing system targeting the drilling and exploration industries.

Lightpath reports annualised IP backbone traffic growth of 32% over 18 months, attributing the acceleration to enterprise AI inference workloads.

NorthStrive Defense Tech has engaged Deploy360 to independently validate patented GPS-denied drone navigation technology it holds an option to licence.

Microchip Technology has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Hailo, adding a portfolio of edge AI accelerators and vision SoCs to its embedded processing lineup.

Intermap Technologies will buy PCI Geomatics in an $11m cash deal to combine 3D elevation data with satellite image-processing algorithms.

NASA has selected Lunar Outpost's Starweave autonomous robotic swarm platform under its Announcement of Collaboration Opportunity programme.

SAPPHIRE's flagship RAVE2 MAX pairs AMD Ryzen Embedded X100 with a Versal AI Edge Gen2 SoC, targeting ADAS, robotaxis and industrial AI deployments.

Global investment in Very Low Earth Orbit satellites will roughly double from $5.2bn in 2026, driven by falling launch costs and Earth observation demand.

NXP beat expectations with 19% annual revenue growth in Q2 2026, citing software-defined vehicles and physical AI as its primary demand engines.

Duos Edge AI has signed a five-year, 10 MW colocation agreement worth over $111m, bringing its Columbus campus to 20 MW of contracted capacity

Microchip's PD-9601GCI midspan delivers 90W over a single Ethernet cable for factory and outdoor industrial IoT deployments.

GL Communications says PacketScan Web delivers centralised packet capture and protocol decoding across enterprise, telecom, cloud and 5G networks via a standard browser.

Gilat Satellite Networks has secured over $20m in SkyEdge orders from an undisclosed global satellite operator, with most deliveries expected within 24 months.

Syntiant's vision AI models now power over one million Moultrie outdoor cameras, with PRADCO gaining access to Syntiant's Modeling Platform.

HMS Networks reported a record second quarter, with order intake up 20% and EBITA margin expanding to 26.8%, driven by semiconductor and data-centre

Microchip Technology has launched a free SDK bringing sparsity-based CNN acceleration to PolarFire FPGAs, targeting aerospace, defence and space applications.

ASUS has released Zenni Claw, a hybrid local-cloud agentic AI assistant for supported Windows 11 devices, launching in beta as a free download.

Microchip is removing licence fees from its MPLAB XC Pro Compilers and Machine Learning Development Suite, giving developers unlimited free access to both tools.