Edge AI chip startup Deep Vision has raised $35 million in a series B round of funding led by Tiger Global, joined by existing investors Exfinity Venture Partners, Silicon Motion and Western Digital. The company began shipping its first-generation chip last year. ARA-1 is designed for power-efficient, low-latency edge AI processing in applications like smart retail, smart city and robotics. While the company's name suggests a focus on convolutional neural networks, ARA-1 can also accelerate natural language processing with support for complex networks such as long short-term memory (LSTMs) and recurrent neural networks (RNNs). A second-generation chip, ARA-2 with additional features for accelerating LSTMs and RNNs will launch next year.