Think like an octopus: Microchip COO makes the case for distributed edge AI

Jay Liu, Nuremberg

Mar 15, 2026, 07:39 0

Microchip COO Richard J. Simoncic said the octopus provides a useful analogy for edge AI architecture. Credit: Jay Liu

The AI industry's obsession with bigger, faster, and more powerful models may be solving the wrong problem — at least when it comes to the billions of devices operating at the edge. At Embedded World 2026 in Nuremberg, Germany, Microchip Technology COO...

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