Three Things DSP Adoption Can Teach Us About Edge AI

Edge AI is reaching a familiar inflection point, much like Digital Signal Processors (DSPs) did in the 1990s, with adoption challenges including the need for powerful specialized hardware, fragmented tooling, and significant complexity for developers. DSPs gained traction because they delivered substantially better power efficiency and performance for workloads that general-purpose processors handled inefficiently. Audio, image processing, storage, communications, and control applications all be