Mouser ships Infineon’s PSOC Edge chips for robotics, industrial, smart home applications
The deal reflects a broader shift as chipmakers race to pull machine learning out of distant cloud data centres and into everyday objects
Mouser Electronics has begun shipping Infineon Technologies’ latest PSOC Edge machine-learning microcontrollers, aiming to bring more intelligence to devices at the periphery of the network in homes, factories and warehouses. The launch extends Mouser’s role as a gatekeeper for new chips, while giving Infineon another route into fast-growing edge-AI niches.
The PSOC Edge family combines an Arm Cortex-M55 core with an M33 coprocessor, Infineon’s NNLite accelerator and support for Helium DSP and Arm Ethos-U55, allowing neural networks to run continuously at low power inside a single, highly integrated chip. Target applications range from smart speakers and home appliances to collaborative robots, industrial controls and more sophisticated human–machine interfaces.
Infineon pairs the silicon with its ModusToolbox environment and DEEPCRAFT Studio AI, which offers pre-built models for voice, audio and vision, reducing the effort required to graft machine learning onto existing embedded designs.
The deal reflects a broader shift as chipmakers race to pull machine learning out of distant cloud data centres and into everyday objects. Edge-AI microcontrollers promise faster response times, lower energy use and better privacy, by processing data locally rather than streaming every sensor reading back to a server. With global electronics makers scrambling to differentiate commodity hardware through software and AI, distributors such as Mouser have become crucial channels for seeding new architectures among engineers and small design teams.
Mouser is backing the PSOC Edge rollout with two development kits that are meant to make experimentation easier. The KITPSE84AITOBO1 PSOC Edge E84 AI evaluation kit focuses on rapid prototyping of ML and edge-AI workloads using DEEPCRAFT Studio, while the KITPSE84EVALTOBO1 board adds a SODIMM system-on-module carrying the E84 MCU plus an AIROC Wi-Fi and Bluetooth combo, MIPI-DSI display support, audio interfaces, and Arduino and mikroBUS headers for expansion.
For Infineon, whose microcontrollers already populate industrial and IoT systems, the PSOC Edge line is pitched as a way to hardwire machine learning into the next generation of “always-on” smart devices.