Indie Semiconductor announced a strategic investment in Expedera, a leading provider of scalable Neural Processing Unit (NPU) semiconductor intellectual property (IP). This minority investment will include Donald McClymont’s addition to Expedera’s Board of Directors.
This partnership will deliver customized AI-enabled processing capabilities for sensing solutions targeting Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS) and includes a commercial agreement to integrate customized Expedera Origin NPU processing solutions into future indie products.
The deployment of these ADAS systems—driven by safety regulation and New Car Assessment Programs (NCAP)—mandates high-performance, power-efficient AI-based object detection and perception processing to enable functions such as Lane Keep Assist (LKA), Blind Spot Detection (BSD), Automated Emergency Braking (AEB), and Driver and Occupant Monitoring (DMS/OMS).
Expedera’s Origin NPU solutions will advance indie’s growing multi-modal ADAS silicon and software portfolio with advanced Neural Network (NN) processing capabilities. And Origin’s unique packet-based architecture brings deterministic performance and efficient power, area, and memory resource utilization to on-chip NN processing compared to typical layer-based approaches. This partnership will deliver scalable NPU single-core performance capabilities to Indie’s portfolio of over 100 TOPS.
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“Our mission has always been to deliver best-in-market NPU solutions alongside premier partners, which is why we are so thrilled to welcome this new strategic investment and commercial agreement with indie. As the clear leader in the Autotech market, there is no better partner for our Origin solutions than indie.”
– Da Chuang, co-founder and CEO of Expedera
“Since its founding in 2018, Expedera has established itself as the best-in-class, field-proven NPU solution provider. As we examined the AI opportunity within the automotive market, it became apparent that Expedera’s highly innovative solutions are ideally matched to enabling indie’s ADAS portfolio with customized, high-performance neural processing capabilities. We are excited to team with Expedera and deliver unprecedented AI-enabled sensing solutions to indie’s global customer base.”
– Donald McClymont, indie co-founder and CEO
