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CEVA, Inc. (NASDAQ: CEVA), the leading licensor of signal processing IP for smarter, connected devices, today announced that Novatek Microelectronics, Taiwan's 2nd largest fabless IC design house, has licensed and deployed the CEVA-XM4 intelligent vision DSP for its next-generation vision-enabled System-on-Chips (SoCs) targeting a range of end markets requiring advanced visual intelligence capabilities. Novatek's current camera SoC lineup for car DVR and surveillance systems integrates the 3rd generation CEVA-MM3101 imaging & vision DSP and is shipping in volume. By integrating CEVA-XM4 as a dedicated vision processor in their next-generation SoC designs, Novatek and its customers can rapidly deploy highly-sophisticated vision algorithms to enable advanced applications such as surveillance systems with face detection and authentication, drone anti-collision systems and advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS). These types of applications are built utilizing CEVA's Deep Neural Network (CDNN2), a proprietary software framework that enables deep learning tasks to run on the CEVA-XM4 and outperform any GPU or CPU-based system in terms of speed, power consumption and memory bandwidth requirements. "The CEVA-XM4 is an exceptional processor for imaging and computer vision, offering outstanding performance, flexibility and power efficiency for applications requiring visual intelligence capabilities," said Allen Lu, Assistant Vice President of iVoT SBU, Novatek.

Velodyne, a Silicon Valley company that makes laser radar - a critical component in self-driving cars - landed 150 million from Ford and Chinese search giant Baidu. SAN FRANCISCO – Velodyne, a Silicon Valley company that makes a critical component for self-driving cars, has raised 150 million from two companies racing to put autonomous cars on the road. Ford Motor Company and Chinese search engine Baidu are co-leads in the round, Velodyne announced Tuesday. Velodyne's puck-shaped Lidar, or laser radar, devices take the place of human eyes by relaying terrain information to on-board computers. The investment comes as competition heats up between automakers and tech companies looking to gain an early lead in the evolving transportation revolution.

SHANGHAI--Tesla Motor Inc. has revised the marketing of its Autopilot feature in China, after a Beijing driver who sideswiped a parked car when the system was engaged accused the car maker of overplaying its capabilities. Since the weekend, the company has scaled back its description of Autopilot on its website and in other marketing materials from zi dong jia shi, meaning the car can drive itself, to zi dong fu zhu jia shi, meaning...

Robots have come a long way from being depicted as fictional characters in movies to playing an important role in executing critical business tasks, thanks to a versatile technique called'deep learning'. However, there is a growing concern that robots are expected to soon replace humans at operational level in organizations. With prominent leaders openly talking about how people will soon lose jobs to high functioning machines and companies stringently reducing employee strength, there is no denying the fact that artificial intelligence (AI) technology is here to stay. If one were to take a harder look however, one can say that on the contrary AI presents opportunities for the existing workforce to work in concert with the machines. Businesses should be on top of their game in making the best use of AI.

The investment firm Susa Ventures won't have any partners based in Los Angeles as it begins investing from a new 50-million fund. Susa unveiled its second fund -- double the size of its first -- Tuesday. In looking at the first batch of investments, Susa's geographically spread apart team realized that most of the companies were in the San Francisco Bay Area, including finance start-ups Robin Hood and LendUp. They decided to consolidate in San Francisco, too. "To take it to take next level, we all needed to be in the same office and S.F. seemed like the best," said general partner Seth Berman, who moved there from Los Angeles more than a year ago.

Japan lags Silicon Valley in conventional internet services but could become a global leader in the deep-learning technology of artificial intelligence, a leading AI expert has said. Yutaka Matsuo, 41, Project Associate Professor at the University of Tokyo, believes machine learning will revolutionize sectors such as image recognition. "In deep learning, Japan still has a great chance to compete," Matsuo said in an interview. He singled out Sony Corp., Ricoh Co., Olympus Corp. and Canon Inc. as companies that show promise. "Changes happening now are in image processing technology, and Japan has been good at this," he said.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is not something that we will use in the future but something that's being used today by brands across world in their marketing efforts. It's an integral part of marketing efforts for brands to help build a better customer experience. FMCG brands are adopting AI to help recognise customer behavior, provide predictive customer service, integrate it as part of the product offering and in many other ways. A leading FMCG brand used AI technology to help recognise micro facial expressions of joy, anger and surprise in a focus group research for a fragrance to help predict whether the consumer liked the product or not. The AI technology developed by Emotient, a startup recently acquired by Apple was able to more accurately predict preferences of the focus group than surveys. Knorr used cognitive technology, a component of AI in its latest campaign Love at First Taste campaign - "Flavour Profiler".