What do you get if you cross AI with the IoT? The AIoT is the simple answer, but you also get a huge new application area for microcontrollers, enabled by advances in neural network techniques that mean machine learning is not limited to the world of supercomputers any longer. These days, smartphone application processors can (and do) perform AI inference for image processing, recommendation engines, and other complex features.
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