Renesas MPU Eyes Lower-Cost Vision AI Applications
Renesas introduces the RZ/V2N, a cost-effective, mid-range vision AI microprocessor ideal for smart cameras, doorbells, and robotic vacuums, offering scaled-down features from the RZ/V2H.
Renesas's new RZ/V2N is a scaled-down version of its RZ/V2H microprocessor for the vision AI market. While RZ/V2H, introduced last year, serves the higher end of the market — applications like advanced robots with vision AI and real-time processing capabilities — the RZ/V2N targets mid-range AI consumer applications that require less AI acceleration such as smart cameras and doorbells and robotic vacuum cleaners. RZ/V2N has half the AI acceleration capability, 75% less on-chip memory, and a lesser CPU subsystem than RZ/V2H. At about $42.54 per unit in 250-unit quantities, it costs about 39% less than the RZ/V2H but about 60% more than the RZ/V2L, a general-purpose vision AI microprocessor, which occupies the next rung down on the RZ/V family ladder.
