Ambarella Inc. (NASDAQ:AMBA) shares rose 2.5% in premarket trading on Monday after the company introduced its new CV7 edge AI vision system-on-chip at the CES technology show.
The newly unveiled semiconductor targets advanced AI perception workloads across a range of applications, including consumer electronics, security cameras, robotics and automotive systems. Ambarella said the CV7 is capable of handling multiple video streams at resolutions of up to 8Kp60, while delivering high-performance edge AI processing with improved energy efficiency.
Ambarella noted that the CV7 consumes around 20% less power than its previous generation, helped in part by Samsung’s 4-nanometer manufacturing process—the first time Ambarella has used this node. The chip also incorporates the company’s third-generation CVflow AI accelerator, which is designed to deliver more than 2.5 times the AI performance of the earlier CV5 platform.
“The CV7 enables consumer and enterprise security camera developers to deliver the most advanced imaging features and the highest edge AI performance, for improved video analytics and higher image quality in their next-generation products,” said Fermi Wang, President and CEO of Ambarella.
The system-on-chip integrates Ambarella’s AI acceleration, image signal processing and video encoding alongside Arm-based CPU cores and other functions. The company said this high level of integration allows for better performance and more compact designs compared with multi-chip alternatives.
In addition, the CV7 includes hardware-accelerated video encoding that doubles performance relative to the CV5, supporting either a single 4Kp240 video stream or two 8Kp30 streams. The on-chip processing has also been upgraded to a quad-core Arm Cortex-A73 configuration, delivering roughly twice the CPU performance of the prior generation.