A new integrated drone AI solution delivers 50 trillion operations per second of AI compute at less than 10 watts, combining SiMa.ai’s Modalix MLSoC with AVerMedia’s industrial-grade platform.
California-based AI computing company SiMa.ai and Taiwanese edge AI solutions provider AVerMedia said the system is designed to meet drones’ strict size, weight, and power constraints while supporting AI applications.
The integrated solution is already available for customer evaluation, with production quantities supported through both companies.
At the hardware level, AVerMedia’s D137SM carrier board is specifically designed for drone applications and integrates with SiMa.ai’s Modalix MLSoC.
The companies said the integrated design also reduces hardware integration work, helping developers move AI systems from development toward production.
AI Software and Multimodal Processing
SiMa.ai is also providing its Palette Neat development environment to speed Physical AI development with pre-optimized pipelines and reusable components. The company said it can cut development cycles from weeks or months to hours or days.
“Physical AI applications require more than raw AI performance,” said Liran Bar, SiMa.ai’s vice president of strategic sales. He pointed to the need for efficient compute, low power consumption, software, and production-ready hardware.
The Modalix MLSoC runs multiple AI workloads on a single chip, including convolutional neural networks, vision transformers, large language models, and large multimodal models.
It can handle the full Physical AI pipeline, from sensor capture and multimodal processing to vision processing and application logic.
SiMa.ai and AVerMedia will showcase the production-ready system at the August 27 Drone Seminar in Taipei, Taiwan.
