Rich Nass and Mark Hermeling of Adacore talk tech at embedded world North America 2026.

Ken Briodagh and Peter Anzelmo of Ansys, a part of Synopsys, sit down together at embedded world North America to discuss software, systems, and smart design.

Using optical technologies to move data around is not new. What is new is using optics and photonics for AI applications, particularly at the chip level.

Lightelligence has designed a way to harness the shades generated by the photonics technology to significantly boost chip-level transfers. It takes some pressure off the CPUs and memory systems, and potentially reduces the power in the system.

That sounded like rocket science to me, so I asked Mo Steinman, the Senior VP and General Manager of the U.S. at Lightelligence, to explain it to me. Hear his take on this week’s Embedded Executives podcast.

Rich Nass and Steve Brightfield, Chief Product Officer at brainchip, talk tech at embedded world North America.

Ken Briodagh and Pramit Nandy of Microchip talk robotics, Physical AI, and Edge at embedded world North America.

Ken Briodagh and Dustin Seeto of Premio talk tech trends at embedded world North America 2026

AI consumes a lot of power simply because it requires a lot of compute to handle AI calculations. If you could reduce the amount of compute that’s needed to handle those calculations, you could reduce the power that’s required. It sounds simple, but I assure you, it’s anything but.

However, the developers at Velaura AI feel that they have cracked the code, so to speak, in reducing the power needed to run AI computers.

To understand how they’ve done it, and what it means for the future of AI, check out this week’s Embedded Executives podcast, where I spoke to Sanjay Gupta, the Co-founder & President of Velaura AI.

Ken Briodagh of Embedded Computing Design finds out all about the machine vision and inspection systems from EverFocus at embedded world North America