Four years after being acquired by Sony, Altair Semiconductor, will now be rebranded as Sony Semiconductor Israel Ltd.
According to Sony Semiconductor Israel CEO Nohik Semel, Altair has been playing a key role in Sony’s core business for the past 4 years and thus to better reflect their long-term commitment to partners and customers, as well as the quality of offering, the company decided to change Altair’s company name to Sony Semiconductor Israel. The companies expect to see great innovations in the field of IoT and Sensing as they continue to make it easier for machines to talk to each other and to build AI capabilities directly into Semiconductors and Solutions.
These innovations include low-powered cellular IoT chipsets, IoT security developments, and world-class technologies in the area of AI signal processing and sensing.
Sony Semiconductor Israel is a leading provider of cellular IoT chipsets. Its globally certified chipsets are the industry’s smallest and most feature-rich solutions, providing the market’s lowest power consumption and enabling the most extended battery life for numerous IoT applications. Altair-based solutions power smart meters; vehicle telematics devices; personal, logistical, and pet trackers; and connected wearable devices.
Sony Semiconductor Israel also developed the AI Digital Signal Processor (DSP), which was included in the recently announced intelligent vision sensor IMX500/IMX501 by Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corporation. The new solution balances the need for a powerful AI engine with limited space and low power consumption, creating the world’s first image sensor with built-in AI processing.
