WATERLOO – November 02, 2026 -- Applied Brain Research (ABR) has made its speech AI software development kit generally available on Zephyr RTOS for Alif Semiconductor's Ensemble family of edge AI processors. On the Ensemble E8, its Niagara ASR engine delivers 133 ms average latency from first audio to first token while drawing 15 mW of active power above baseline.

Vienna – October 14, 2026 -- Viewpointsystem has launched an eye-tracking module that delivers up to 15 times longer battery runtime than conventional processing on a connected device, according to the company's performance measurements. The Digital Iris Module runs the complete image-based eye-tracking pipeline at 140 Hz on an ultra-low-power Ensemble microcontroller (MCU) from Alif Semiconductor, inside the glasses frame.

Pleasanton, Calif. – September 12, 2026 -- Alif Semiconductor launched a new family of low-cost evaluation boards priced at an MSRP of $49, aimed at lowering the barrier to on-device AI/ML inference for developers.