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GreenWaves Technologies' GAP9 AI processor achieved volume production and is being used by tier 1 hearables customers for neural noise cancellation.
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Grenoble, France
Who
GreenWaves Technologies, Loïc Liétar, Eric Flamand, Denis Mestdagh, Joël Cambonie
What
GreenWaves Technologies' GAP9 AI processor achieved volume production and is being used by tier 1 hearables customers for neural noise cancellation.
When
Mon, 15 Jun 2026 20:12:21 GMT · 22h 22m ago
Where
Grenoble, France ·
Why
The GAP9 processor pairs RISC-V compute clusters with a dedicated hardware neural network engine, achieving performance levels for AI inference that competing microcontrollers cannot match at equivalent power.
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How this affects you
The adoption of GreenWaves' GAP9 processor in earbuds demonstrates that dedicated AI silicon for neural network inference has become a critical requirement in consumer audio products. This development is influencing major audio platforms to integrate on-device AI for features like noise cancellation and voice detection.
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