Synaptics’ Astra SR200 chips bring Google Coral NPU technology to smart glasses, cameras, and other edge AI devices. Image generated by ChatGPT.

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Synaptics introduced its Astra SR200 series on Oct. 20, a three-chip family of AI microcontrollers built around Google Research’s open-source Coral NPU technology. The chips span 200 to 400 GOPS of AI processing power, but they remain in the sampling stage, with no public pricing or firm production schedule.

What’s actually orderable today is a separate, smaller board. The companies’ existing Coralboard SL developer kit reached general availability through DigiKey the same day, running a 1-TOPS implementation of the Coral NPU.…