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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.

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 · 2h 15m 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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