ADI buys Alif’s AI-native microcontrollers

Sensing and inference converge on one board.

September 10, 2026

Jon Peddie

ADI pays $1.35 billion in cash for Alif Semiconductor, a seven-year-old Pleasanton, California, company that builds 32-bit microcontrollers around neural processing units. The deal hands ADI a production digital compute line to sit next to its sensors, amplifiers, converters, and power parts. Alif silicon already ships in volume. Both boards approved the agreement, and the companies expect to close the deal before the end of calendar 2026. ADI frames the purchase as its Physical Intelligence strategy, moving inference to the point where signals originate. ADI buys the decision layer. ADI agreed to acquire Alif Semiconductor for $1.35 billion in cash,

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