Ambarella expands its platform to meet Intel’s challenge

CES, the land of dreams, hopes, and big promises. Ambarella was founded in 2004 on the basis of a massive semi-smart image sensor with video-compression. Four years later, the company introduced its flagship product, the H2 with an image processing pipeline that included a 10-bit HDR video processing and imaging that could handle challenging low-light conditions.  In 2011, the company jumped in sales and popularity by being adopted by action camera maker GoPro, and in 2012 Ambarella went public. But in 2017 GoPro introduced its own SoC and 4K image sensor and dropped Ambarella. Nonetheless, Ambarella continued to do well