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Beken Corporation is competing for the "Annual AI Market Breakthrough Award" at the 8th IC Trend Awards with its high-performance edge AI chip BK7259. According to a Jiwei.com report on October 30, 2026, the BK7259 adopts an M52+M55 dual-core design with an ARM Ethos U65 NPU, providing 0.25 TOPS of on-device computing power. It is the first to integrate the Ethos-U65 microNPU into a Wi-Fi 6 MCU, with deep sleep current as low as 2μA, and completes on-device 3D facial recognition in about 200ms. The results of this award selection have not yet been disclosed.
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Beken Corporation Competes for the IC Industry Awards Annual AI Market Breakthrough Award with Edge AI Chip BK7259
Beken Corporation is a candidate for the "Annual AI Market Breakthrough Award" at the 8th IC Industry Awards with its high-performance edge AI chip BK7259. The BK7259 adopts an M52+M55 dual-core architecture and an ARM Ethos U65 NPU, providing 0.25 TOPS of edge-side computing power. It is the first to integrate the Ethos-U65 microNPU into a Wi-Fi 6 MCU, with deep sleep current as low as 2µA, and completes edge-side 3D facial recognition in about 200ms.