Analog Devices will pay $1.35bn for edge AI chipmaker Alif Semiconductor
THE SO WHAT
A $1.35B cash move into Alif’s low-power neural microcontrollers says quiet part out loud—AI inference at the edge is now a strategic silicon battleground, not a niche. If your product lives on battery or in constrained environments, you should be mapping where on-device models can replace cloud calls over the next 12–24 months.
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