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BigEndian goes after secure surveillance chips in a crowded market

• BigEndian’s first chip is aimed at enterprise and consumer surveillance cameras. The team includes engineers from Arm, Intel, and Broadcom 1.
• The company says security is built in from the start. It wants its silicon, the hardware inside electronic devices, to be a trusted option for sensitive uses 2.
• The startup will face Ambarella, a chip designer for video and imaging processors. Its CV7 edge AI vision system-on-chip is made on Samsung’s 4-nanometer process. It can handle several video streams at once up to 8Kp60, or 8K video at 60 frames per second 3.

India-made surveillance chips fit a wider push for local tech

• The funding follows a wider geopolitical shift. Investors see room in changing electronics supply chains to back local semiconductor industries 1.
• BigEndian’s plan for India-made surveillance chips fits India’s push for more homegrown technology in sensitive infrastructure 2.
• The harder task comes after chip design. Local device makers still need to build power-efficient products around it. That matters in edge AI, where data is processed on or near a device instead of in distant data centers to cut data movement 4.