At Embedded World North America, Silicon Labs focuses on AI’s role in IoT

At Embedded World North America, Silicon Labs demonstrated how AI is central to IoT, with plans unveiled for its upcoming Series 3 platform to improve connectivity and processing power.

Silicon Labs commenced the first Embedded World North America with the opening keynotes delivered by CEO Matt Johnson and CTO Daniel Cooley on how artificial intelligence (AI) is taking over the Internet of Things (IoT). The executives underscored the success of the growing Series 2 platform and offered an insight on Series 3 platform which is in the pipeline.

Johnson has said that Al is clearly becoming he a piece of the puzzle that drives the company’s growth saying that in ten years, there will be over 100 billion of IoT devices. The imminent Series 3 is poised to offer capabilities and efficiency to industries such as manufacturing and retail, transportation, health care, energy, and farming operational processes.

To harness such growth, Silicon Labs is building IoT devices that will have better connectivity, improved CPU power, enhanced security, and artificial intelligence capabilities. In particular, the Series 3 platform will be oriented towards the growing need for processing authority from the edge of IoT applications targeting smart cities, commercial premises, smart factories and so forth.

In this Series 3 portfolio, devices supporting all industry-standard protocols and all frequency bands will be included. The first device of this series will be equipped with an innovative IoT modem that will be able to simultaneously operate on three dedicated wireless connections and switch channels rapidly.

With a multicore architecture built using Arm Cortex-M processor alongside machine learning subsystems, Series 3 devices are designed to be able to run sophisticated application programs and real time operation system. The first Series 3 SoC has been given to customers for validation but will be available in greater particulars in the first half of 2025.