(Ambarella, Inc., Santa Clara, California) A fabless semiconductor company that specializes in designing image processing and vision chips. Founded in 2004 by Feng-Ming (Fermi) Wang and Les Kohn to develop H.264 video encoders, Ambarella chips are used in both professional and consumer cameras. The company offers a variety of products for the automotive world from partial to fully autonomous driving. Ambarella is heavily invested in AI chips and the bulk of its revenue comes from the edge (see
edge AI.) See
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