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Ambiq Apollo510B Enhances Edge AI With Energy-Efficient Wireless Connectivity

By: via Business Wire

Built for High Efficiency, Performance, and Seamless Connectivity

Ambiq Micro, Inc. (Ambiq), a technology leader in ultra-low-power semiconductor solutions for edge AI, today announced the expansion of the Apollo5 Family with the Apollo510B wireless System-on-Chip (SoC). Integrating a dedicated 48MHz network processor and Bluetooth® Low Energy 5.4 radio, the Apollo510B will enable robust wireless connectivity for power-constrained edge AI applications.

Feature Highlights

  • Arm® Cortex®-M55 with Helium™ and turboSPOT®, delivering up to 30x better power efficiency in AI applications and 16x faster performance over Cortex-M4 devices
  • 48 MHz network coprocessor and Bluetooth Low Energy 5.4 radio
  • Enhanced memory architecture with 64KB I-cache and 64KB D-cache, 3.75MB of system RAM, and 4MB of embedded non-volatile memory
  • Advanced GPU with 2D/2.5D with vector graphics acceleration
  • Comprehensive peripheral support, including ADC, SPI, I2C, UART, and high-speed USB 2.0
  • High-fidelity audio support via ultra-low power ADC and stereo digital microphone PDM interfaces

Designed for Secure, Always-On, Smart Devices

The Apollo510B’s rich set of peripherals makes it ideal for always-on, intelligent, and connected devices, particularly in body-worn and ambient AI applications. Its advanced memory architecture enables fast execution and real-time data processing, while secureSPOT® 3.0 and Arm TrustZone® provide secure boot, firmware updates, and protection of interoperability and data exchange across diverse edge devices, specifically for wearables, smart glasses, remote patient monitoring, asset tracking, and industrial automation.

Enabling Next-Generation Graphics and UX

With Ambiq’s graphiqSPOT® graphics engine, Apollo510B delivers crisp, vibrant, and responsive visuals for an immersive user interface while maintaining power efficiency. With the Arm Cortex-M55 running at up to 250MHz with a Helium AI accelerator, coupled with the hardware-accelerated vector graphics, anti-aliasing, dithering, full alpha blending, and MiP (Memory-in-Pixel) display technologies, developers can gain the flexibility and performance needed to bring real-time, always-on intelligent devices to market.

“We are excited to expand our latest generation microcontroller with the Apollo510B,” said Scott Hanson, CTO at Ambiq. “The integration of a low-power Bluetooth® radio further extends the possibilities we can provide manufacturers to create the most advanced connected devices powered by edge AI.”

Availability

The Apollo510B SoC will be available in Fall 2025. Learn more about the Apollo510B here.

About Ambiq

Ambiq’s mission is to enable intelligence (artificial intelligence (AI) and beyond) everywhere by delivering the lowest power semiconductor solutions. Ambiq enables its customers to deliver AI compute at the edge where power consumption challenges are the most severe. Ambiq’s technology innovations, built on the patented and proprietary sub-threshold power optimized technology (SPOT®), fundamentally deliver a multi-fold improvement in power consumption over traditional semiconductor designs. Ambiq has powered over 270 million devices to date. For more information, visit www.ambiq.com.

Forward-Looking Statements

The statements contained in this press release that are not historical facts are forward-looking statements. You can identify forward-looking statements because they contain words such as “believes,” “expects,” “may,” “will,” “should,” “seeks,” “intends,” “plans,” “estimates,” or “anticipates,” or similar expressions which concern our strategy, plans, projections or intentions. These forward-looking statements may be included throughout this press release, and include, but are not limited to, statements relating to Ambiq’s expectations and plans in connection with the Apollo510B. By their nature, forward-looking statements are not statements of historical fact or guarantees of future performance and are subject to risks, uncertainties, assumptions or changes in circumstances that are difficult to predict or quantify, including those described in the section titled “Risk Factors” in Ambiq’s prospectus filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) on July 31, 2025, as well as in other filings Ambiq may make with the SEC in the future. Ambiq’s expectations, beliefs and projections are expressed in good faith and Ambiq believes there is a reasonable basis for them. However, there can be no assurance that management’s expectations, beliefs and projections will result or be achieved and actual results may vary materially from what is expressed in or indicated by the forward-looking statements. Any forward-looking statement in this press release speaks only as of the date of this release. Ambiq undertakes no obligation to publicly update or review any forward-looking statement, whether as a result of new information, future developments or otherwise, except as may be required by any applicable securities laws.

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