Asygn’s Colibry NPU tries to make edge AI live on scraps of power

Asygn wants Colibry to bring vision AI to the smallest devices.

June 10, 2026

David Harold

French chip design company Asygn is bringing its Colibry NPU to market as an ultra-low-power AI processor for embedded systems that need to understand their surroundings without leaning on batteries, cloud compute, or large host processors. The company showed working silicon, evaluation boards, and demos, including gesture recognition for smart glasses and an AI-based image sensor powered by ambient light. The pitch is clear: vision and sensor intelligence at microwatt-to-milliwatt power levels. The challenge is equally clear: Asygn is entering a crowded edge AI market full of large incumbents, suspicious customers, and ambitious European newcomers. Thomas Gillot, AI business developer

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