We are just at the beginning of exciting things to come, based on the comments of Inuitive’s founder and CEO, Shlomo Gadot, about the innovation resulting from the collaboration of Inuitive and Softbank Corp. The two companies will be working together on the development of artificial intelligence (AI), deep learning (DL) and advanced 3D sensing with computer vision capabilities for future IoT. They expect significant innovation to emerge from their joint efforts that will further drive the popularity and development of millions of smart IoT devices and systems.
“To develop an AI framework, it takes efforts from players in multiple domains,” said Mr. Shlomo Gadot in a recent press release. “The strategic collaboration between Inuitive and SoftBank will advance on-device intelligence by leveraging Inuitive’s advanced technologies and SoftBank’s market proven technologies. Together we’ll push the performance envelope and extend AI to places that are currently beyond reach. Our strategic collaboration will become a turning point for the whole on-chip AI industry”.
As the leading fabless semiconductor company in the area of 3D imaging, Israel-based Inuitive will gain from the talent and expertise that Japan-based SoftBank has in the area of mobile communication, fixed-line communication and Internet connection services to customers in Japan. The companies will leverage Inuitive’s existing and future vision processors and its AI framework with SoftBank’s IoT platforms that will yield advanced heterogeneous processing capabilities for embedded products. These are the exciting new innovations and products that Gadot foresees.
AI is not new to Softbank which has been conducting research in the area for over ten years. Softbank’s focus on high-end platforms is meant to accelerate AI product use cases in the areas of computer vision and neural networks, while leading into a number of other areas such as Objects recognition and Scene reconstruction.
Inuitive’s strength is their superior multi-core vision processor that supports 3D Imaging that makes them very competitive in the areas of Drones, Robots, Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality. The company also has important roles in deep learning algorithm innovation and sensing technologies where they have had significant breakthroughs.
