Nordic launches the nRF71 series of Wi-Fi SoCs supporting edge AI inference

Nordic has launched the nRF71 series Wi-Fi SoC, featuring an Axon NPU for executing AI inference directly on the chip, including the nRF7120 (dual-band Wi-Fi 6) and nRF7120E (triple-band Wi-Fi 6E) models. Both chips support low-power Bluetooth, Thread, and Matter, equipped with 4MB of on-chip non-volatile memory and 1MB of user-accessible memory. Compared to the nRF70, the nRF71's standby power consumption is reduced by up to 1/20. With the built-in NPU, devices can directly execute AI inference such as keyword detection, anomaly detection, and image classification on the chip without requiring additional AI processors.

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