# Microchip Technology Acquires On-Device AI Processor Company Hailo - audioXpress

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*Дата: 2026-07-27*
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**Кратко:** has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Hailo, an Israeli company pioneering edge AI processors with extensive experience and recognition in both accelerators and SoCs for on-device inference. The acquisition significantly strengthens Microchip's position in the edge AI segment, adding a powerful range of advanced vision processing solutions, robotics processors, and comprehensive AI software flows, and an experience engineering team in this field.

Microchip Technology Inc. has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Hailo, an Israeli company pioneering edge AI processors with extensive experience and recognition in both accelerators and SoCs for on-device inference. The acquisition significantly strengthens Microchip's position in the edge AI segment, adding a powerful range of advanced vision processing solutions, robotics processors, and comprehensive AI software flows, and an experience engineering team in this field.
 
Microchip Technology is a leading manufacturer of smart, connected, and secure embedded control solutions with a growing presence in critical mission applications in space, defense, and industry, where AI running purely on-device is a fast-expanding reality. The Arizona-based semiconductor is expected to close the Hailo acquisition towards the end of the current quarter ending September 30, subject to customary closing conditions and regulatory approvals. The terms of the transaction are not being disclosed, and the transaction is not expected to have a material impact on Microchip's financial results.
Hailo’s mission has always been to deliver industry-leading machine learning processors, which the expanding role of artificial intelligence expanded into innovative Edge AI solutions — a designation loosely applied to devices that must be able to apply ML-trained models and inference purely on-device, connected or not. The company accepted Microchip’s offer as a way to accelerate its growth and based on the company’s demonstrated commitment to innovation, technical excellence, and its employee-supported ownership model.
As Hailo’s founder and CEO Orr Danon states: “We have been particularly impressed by its global reach, long-term customer relationships, manufacturing capabilities, quality standards, and extensive technical support organization. We remain fully committed to supporting the incredible community of builders using our products to make Edge AI a reality. We look forward to continuing this journey together.”
 
The proposed acquisition is expected to expand Microchip’s processing portfolio for intelligent edge systems and strengthen its ability to deliver accelerated, power-efficient edge AI solutions for robotics, advanced vision processing, and intelligent edge applications, including drones, robots, smart cameras, industrial automation, and embedded AI systems.
According to Microchip, Hailo has demonstrated technology leadership across both edge AI accelerators and vision systems on chip. Its products span from high-performance edge deployments on specialty edge servers with local GenAI and multimodal workloads down to low-power vision processing inside a small form factor, stand-alone camera. With the latest Hailo-8, Hailo-10, and Hailo-15 accelerators and processors, Microchip will gain a portfolio that supports classic computer vision, while adding advanced camera, ISP, DSP, video encoding, and AI video stream processing capabilities for intelligent systems.
The Hailo acquisition brings multiple products, more than 100 current customers, and an established developer community of more than 10,000 users. Its portfolio spans both edge AI accelerators and vision SoCs supporting workloads and capabilities including CNNs, transformers, LLM/VLM workloads, Image Signal Processing, DSP, H.264/H.265 encoding, and AI video stream processing. 
 
“The acquisition of Hailo accelerates Microchip’s expansion into high-performance edge AI processing,” says Mark Reiten, Senior Corporate Vice President. “Hailo’s AI acceleration, advanced vision processing, and software ecosystem directly complement Microchip’s embedded processing, FPGA, connectivity, security, power, and analog portfolio. Together, we can help customers build more capable intelligent edge systems with the right balance of performance, power efficiency, reliability, and system cost.” 
The transaction will also bring a demand-generation engine for edge AI adoption. Hailo’s Raspberry Pi ecosystem, gated Developer Zone, GitHub activity, and community forum create a self-sustaining funnel that converts developer engagement into qualified opportunities and customer pipeline.
“Joining Microchip would give Hailo the opportunity to scale our accelerated edge AI technology through a global embedded systems leader,” adds Orr Danon. “Microchip’s customer reach, channel scale, and broad technology portfolio would create a strong platform for bringing advanced vision processing and AI acceleration to a broader range of intelligent edge applications.” 
Microchip previously expanded its AI capabilities with the acquisition of Neuronix AI Labs, which added neural network optimization technology for AI/ML workloads on FPGAs and SoCs. This transaction adds dedicated edge AI processors, vision SoCs, and software tools to Microchip’s portfolio that broaden its ability to support accelerated AI and advanced vision processing at the edge. 
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 Microchip Technology Acquires On-Device AI Processor Company Hailo
Microchip Technology Inc. has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Hailo, an Israeli company pioneering edge AI processors with extensive experience and recognition in both accelerators and SoCs for on-device inference. The acquisition significantly strengthens Microchip's position in the edge AI segment, adding a powerful range of advanced vision processing solutions, robotics processors, and comprehensive AI software flows, and an experience engineering team in this field.
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