Google Open-Sources NPU IP, Synaptics Implements It
By Sally Ward-Foxton, EETimes | October 15, 2025
Google Research has open-sourced its Coral NPU IP (previously codenamed Kelvin), which it is giving to the industry in a bid to accelerate edge AI implementations by reducing fragmentation and improving security. Synaptics is the first to implement this NPU in silicon as part of its Astra SL2610 series of IoT device SoCs.
Google has been working on a new approach to enable the edge AI ecosystem to grow, Billy Rutledge, director of edge AI research at Google, told EE Times.
“We’re trying to affect nascent wearable-class SoCs before they become mature to try to avoid the things that we’ve seen in the mobile phone SoC industry,” Rutledge said. “There’s a lot of fragmentation in the world of mobile phones. Can we prevent that from happening in wearables?”
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