Gyrfalcon Unveils Fourth AI Accelerator Chip

Gyrfalcon has announced a new AI accelerator for consumer devices, the Lightspeeur 5801. This device is the company's fourth production chip, and it has already been designed into LG's Q70, a mid-range smartphone, where it handles inference for camera effects such as Bokeh. According to Gyrfalcon, the Lightspeeur 5801 offers 2.8 TOPS at 224mW (equivalent to 12.6 TOPS/W) with 4ms latency. Clock speed is variable between 50- and 200MHz to allow the tradeoff of performance and power consumption. The chip can handle 448 by 448 pixel images, four times larger than its previous edge inference chip, the Lightspeeur 2801.